I am also a self employed ( can you call that without making money yet? ) game developer making games in Unreal engine and in Unity. Have started off as a hobbyist since 2013.
Played too much video games and came to a point where i ask myself why not make games as well?
Still not much to go around yet as im still learning more on game development and have a few more areas to improve on, *stare* asset creation and animation.