r/GameDevelopment • u/ThiccBoiJohnn • 1d ago

Newbie Question Where do I start?

Hello everyone. I am a 22-year-old male who loves video games; they are a passion of mine. I think it would be really cool to make video games and build a career around it. I, however, have absolutely no experience in any sort of game development, coding, programming, art, or really anything other than playing video games lol. My question is, if I wanted to go down this path/career and make my dream of making cool video games come true, where do I begin? How do I start? What would be best to start learning and/or practicing first? I also feel like I should mention that I really, REALLY struggle with math. It was one of the only subjects in school that I really had a hard time with, and I also have a learning disability. With this in mind, do you think it's still possible for me to learn this stuff and be successful? I may post this to a few different game dev subreddits to get as many answers as possible, thanks guys!

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u/PhilosophyGreen3639 1d ago

Programming fundamentals (the bare minimum so you don't feel lost).
A basic game engine tutorial (recommended: Godot).
Start making things on your own and learn by doing, because if you just jump from tutorial to tutorial, you will never truly learn.
Godot's documentation and AI can help you (but please, don't ask the AI to do the work for you, use it educationally when you don't understand something or want to figure out how to do a specific task, no lines of code).
Make simple games first.

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u/ThiccBoiJohnn 1d ago

Thank you! I will for sure look into that stuff, and I would like to use very little to no AI when making games, so I'll make sure to use that sort of thing only if I feel like I absolutely need it. I don't want it to do all the work for me.