Advice for a newbie

quinnte · 2010-09-28T16:18:11

Hey there. First off I do have some background in game development, although it might be rather dated. I got my degree in game design from Full Sail about 10 yrs ago, and the base language we learned was Visual C++. I've decided to try developing games in my spare time with my friends who have coding experience, but I'm not sure what the best format would be.I know flash is really popular right now, and a friend of mine who's currently a senior game designer recommended the XBLA SDK, but from what I've read they have to approve your idea for that first, which is crap.Any other ideas (preferably free because I'm poor)? I don't mind learning curves for new languages and such, but nothing too complicated because I don't want to spend all my time getting used to the program/language just to have it become obsolete by the time I get started on the game.