Peter O'Neill

I remember playing a lot of video games as a kid and I was really drawn to the colour and the vibrancy of the computer games and the graphics, and I always wanted to do something kind of creative. But I was also quite good at the mathematics and the sciences.

For as long as I can remember, we always had computers around the house and I was always interested in, you know, doodling and painting, and things, and playing music. I can remember how my brother once brought a library book back on how to make video games. And after a couple of weeks of just going through the book, I'd written my first video game.  So, from then on, I just had a passion for computers and I always wanted to make video games. So I decided to study design as well as maths and physics. But design ended up being my worst subject. I was just never as good as the other guys. So it was a real eye opener for me, and I realised that I couldn't express myself creatively in that fashion.

There's more to video games than just the graphics, and I was drawn to the programming side, and it still allows you to be creative. So, these days, I'm actually running a company which develops games and applications for the mobile phone. They say if you work doing something that you love, then you'll never have to work a day in your life. And I really feel like that at the moment. I feel like when I get up in the morning, that I'm not going to work, I'm going to play.

And that's, you know, the ultimate form of creativity, I think, being my own boss, getting to go and do the things that I want to do and never having to answer to anyone else.