Hello for everyone,

I am Arda and I am new to forum. I have some questions about how to make games. I know the C++ basics and a little about C#. I am 16 years old and I go to high school. Here are my questions:

1) How did they make doom or quake or age of empires? ( which language they used and which libraries )

2) What I need to know to develop the game in my dreams?

3) How can I make a total conversion of Half-Life 2? ( I hope you wont reference me to valve's site. Tutorials on there is useless)

4) Where can I find an ameteur group to join to get experience?

5) Is there any book which shows development of a game? ( I couldnt find anything lile that)

6) Which one is better: using an engine, modding a game or creating your own game on your own?

7) Is there anyone who can be my tutor and lead me to my dreams?

Okey I know I want too much thing but I hope there are good guys who can help me.

Thanks for answers and lol.

2) Its better if you develop games while awake.

I meant the game which I am dreaming about I will develop it while I am awake :D

Doom and Quake source code is released under GPL, so you can just go look at it :)

And assuming your dream game is 3D by the mention of those two, using an existing engine is probably a good idea. Programming 3D games from scratch is fun, but difficult. Especially collision detection.

I want to make a 3D FPS co-op game. I just need to know how to do it. I have tried to use source engine but I couldnt find a good tutorial. Tutorials on Valve's site are really basic and when you want to make a real modification on game you need to look into so much unnecessary code to understand how to do what you want.

4) Where can I find an ameteur group to join to get experience?
7) Is there anyone who can be my tutor and lead me to my dreams? :D

I have more than one hour but I dont have free time on thursdays and sundays. If you send me your skype name I can add you.

I have added you