Hi adyrhan,
Reading all replies and thinking about it, I'd first try to find out where you want to be/ what your goal is. "Entering the game industry" honestly isn't very explicit. If you want to go for the AAA route, do you want to be developing:
- tech, engine code
- shaders
- ai code
- tools
- gameplay
... Etc

Depending on your goal, I'd go for the most common/used/best language for that specific subject.
If you go for do it all yourself, find out what you want to deliver and chose the language that will bring you that. Etc, depending on where you want to go.

Hope this helps

I think I'd like to be developing ai or gameplay, I'm still not sure, I guess I'd better try doing a little of all and then decide. AI and gameplay is what interest me the most, but I know what matters is the experience of the progress, and for that I'd have to try myself.

Thanks

We pretty much avoid C++ as much as possible these days - if it isn't required for a problem, then there's likely a better language for the job.

C# (with or without Unity) is a great contender for game development, for instance. But that's just my personal example; there's a vast array of languages that are OK for game development these days.

Of course, I'd expect AAA engines to have some C++ in them even in the future, but life in managed memory land is so much happier.

Edit: Cute anonymous people downrating. Come out of your caves uninformed cavemen.

Only think of Linux, Mac, IOS, Android, PS4, SteamOS etc. which are pretty much ~90% C++ or so. Sure foremost on Windows you could use other languages like C#, but who knows what market share this os will have in some years? Personally I'd have tried C#, if it would have been at least an open standard. I was interested in Java as well but never got into that.

@FGFS: You honestly think 90% of games "are C++" on the mobile platforms you mentioned? The underlying implementations are, but I can assure you the gameplay code is not. Read up on Unity, Corona, and other framworks. You're quite far off-track here. C++ more likely to be used for gameplay code in less than 10% of these mobile games. Heck, it will surprise me if it's more than 1% if making a point about being concise and excluding Objective-C (which retains popularity given it's Apple's official language and low level enough to be compared to C++). Now, if we discuss AAA games specifically, the figures will be somewhat higher, but you'll still be surprised how little C++ is actually used by mobile game developers directly.

Also, Linux & SteamOS are kind of irrelevant given that they run on similar hardware as to Windows, and when there's interest for developing games for these OSes similar tools are available (Unity, C# Mono, etc.)

If C# would be fully open standard it would surely be included in Debian etc. As for example my x-plane plugin, it would be silly to ask users to download multiple

hundreds MB Mono runtime for a some kb plugin. As for Android you could use Java or C++, not sure about C#.

If C# would be fully open standard it would surely be included in Debian etc. As for example my x-plane plugin, it would be silly to ask users to download multiple

hundreds MB Mono runtime for a some kb plugin. As for Android you could use Java or C++, not sure about C#.

You can use C++ nearly anywhere (barring extremely limited embedded systems without proper compiler toolsets). Whether you want to and whether others do in practice is an entirely different matter. But I now know how much you know so it's fine I guess. ^^

As for Debian:

apt-get install mono

100 MB package shared among several applications? 0.01% of typical user's hard drive space, big deal.

C# works on both iOS and Android,

Seems you need to buy xamarin? If the mono runtime is that small i might have a look at it someday.