I hear ya, my educational background is software engineering, I built a solid career out of doing a lot of diverse development work (Web, Desktop, Database, Automation, etc), most of my experience has been in Microsoft technologies, so a huge chunk of my work involves C# programming along with MS SQL Server for database, but I have worked plenty with Javascript, VBscript, VB.NET, XML, etc.
I do love gaming, but I'm not sure I would enjoy a AAA environment. For one, I'm not a huge fan of C++, or I should say I don't like dealing with the low level stuff, which is quite essential if you want to be a programmer in the gaming industry, and two, making video games for me is like a stress relief, if I had it as a career I think I would hate it.
That's pretty cool, needs a lot of polishing but the controls are decent. I actually released my first game on Android about 4 months ago, granted it was flop, but it's pretty much getting my feet wet to see what releasing a game feels like. Mind you I did zero marketing for it and I would even say the thing is a very basic looking prototype.
I'm sort of excited about the game I'm working on now, I will release it for iOS/Android sometime this year then move on to the PC world since I'm getting sick of mobile.
Here's a small footage of what I'm working on: