I actually have no idea where I would even start with 3d game making because I feel like there are so many options and I really need to start out with the easiest option

1. Grab some XNA sample that has some 3D camera

2. Create a XZ plane with Y=0 that will temporarily serve as a level terrain - just repeat some texture at first - just to get sth on screen as fast as possible - this is very important, because internally, the gameplay logic will be 2D (e.g. only X and Z position, since ypos=0). Later you can add the terrain, where the ypos will vary.

3. Understand the camera and how it works - make sure you can , at any time, in your main class get the camera loc and orientation and its view matrix

4. Start rendering some cubes above the ground.

5. Promote few cubes into "Enemies" and start moving them along a series of waypoints (e.g. "Patrolling") - create a FiniteStateMachine for that with states like ("Stand", "Still", "Walking","Dead")

That should keep you busy for a while

I must have missed those $300 licenses recently. That kinda sucks. Still, it is not the fault of the MonoGame Team...

However, if your game does not generate even those $300 combined on PC, XBLIG and WP7/8, then I don't really see a point in getting it to run on iOS/Android either :-)

Imagine the blocks in Minecraft and them put a 9x9 grid on them. Thats the size I want my blocks to be. There will be mining, but not as intricate as the mining in Minecraft. The maps won't be random either so Im going to need to create a map editor and make them myself. It will be first person, and the enemies you spawn are basically going to be spheres with some effects to look like a wisp from Warcraft 3, unless I can figure out a better alternative and one that allows there to be over 500 enemies on the screen at a time. I have the whole layout of the game written down, I just need to learn how to program in 3d first so I can apply that to the game I want to make. I'm estimating that itll take over 3 years before I can actually make what I want to :P but Im willing to learn

I just made a camera and triangle in 3d using the code from the book Learning XNA 4.0 and I couldnt understand any of the code. I don't know if the author didnt explain it well enough or Im just retarded but its really confusing lol

You certainly didn't expect to understand everything on the first go, now did you ?

I certainly wouldn't try to understand ALL of the required 3D math at first.

With camera - just experiment a lot with the methods XNA provides for the camera - so that you can at least use it. While it helps to understand it in detail, it is not really necessary at first.

What you really need to understand is the Euclidean space, know the orientation of all 3 axis and understand the concept of translation and rotation - just use the XNA's built-in functionality. That is certainly enough to get you going.

Also, to make the orientation in the empty 3D space feasible, I would, as a very first excercise, put some cube (or whatever else) at Position 0,0,0. That way, you will always have an orientation point to relate to.

That being said, I read few books that tried to explain some problem space and even though I knew that problem space very well, I did not get it from that book. Knowing is not enough to teach...

Thanks for all the advice!! Ill have to look at other books and tutorials and see which one makes the most sense to me. I understand the x,y,z coordinate system pretty well so I dont think that should be too much of a problem