Hey guys, if I'm trying to develop a game, what software should be used? Also, is programming a need to know?

You could try Game Maker... like for real it's much more powerful than people think. And when you get comfortable with it, you might consider learning the language. Game Maker has it's own language, GML. Once you do, you'll be able to make some awesome indie games.

It's really whatever language you wanna use. It seems that much of the industry uses C++ or C# but you don't wanna start with C++ Believe me. >__> C# is "kind of" easy to understand as a beginner but I would suggest Python. http://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/index.htm < maybe not the greatest site to use but it's the best i found so far.

As Hashbyte says, you could use a game maker. Personally, I don't like the idea of using a game maker when I could just learn a programming language and make it from scratch. Unity3D is one route for sure. I've only played around with Unity just to see why everyone was talking about it and it's nice no doubt, but I feel "kind of" the same about Unity as I do most other game makers. I would rather just code it.

Start making small games. Tic Tac Toe, Tetris, battleship (yeah I don't know that's what popped in my head) till you understand whatever language you chose. If you end up going the route of learning a programming language that is.