Metroid Prime and other great Gamecube games were big inspirations for me. I love well crafted worlds and really just wanted to make my own. I was also really inspired by a lot of great old Game Maker games on the Yoyogames sandbox such as Seiklus, Grey and Green, Wrapple, Dubloon, and a ton of others. Pretty much jumped right into Game Maker 7 and learned (very slowly) from tutorials. It's been a wild ride and I'm pretty proud of my growth since then.
Now I'm inspired by a ton of different things. I have the terrible problem of wanting to make every game my own and you can definitely tell what games I was playing at the time based on my unfinished prototypes.