Hellobello,
First of all, as I was reading this thread, I realized how inexperienced I am in anything involving the game industry (been hearing from it from the art side and a bit from the programmer side by TheHappieCat if you remember her). So I'm sure to learn a lot of new stuff by joining itch.io!
I go by the name Mingan Wolf online and I'm a Computer Engineering student in my second year. We have to make a program every semester and this time I thought, why not make a game?
So I grabbed my artistic skills and made something really simple - a unicorn runner. Not grand, not original, but it works and it looks good. My friends were really enthusiastic when I showed them how it looks and said they want to get it and play it - right now it takes a bit of time to explain how to run it so I thought I should publish it somewhere instead and this site came to my mind. I've been playing games from here before, just never took the time to register.
So here I am, currently trying to figure out my life what is the best way to go about publishing my first game.
Have a great day!