Hi, I'm not exactly the best at programmer and that's really why I'm here posting this. I've always wanted to get involved in Programming, specifically to make my own game, which is why I'm in the Game Programming section posting this. I'm currently beginning a project of my own, it involves creating a game. I've done most of the Creative Writing and Design for it and have several people who are skilled at animations and graphics helping me out along with someone making music(obviously after the game is built), but I really don't have anyone to do the Programming for it.

With what I mentioned above, I want to learn programming to help make this game, now it's a really complex game, probably one of the most complex games someone could probably try to built, essentially it involves a virtual world, but not just a 2D world, it's essentially 2.5D or even considered 3D with actually biomes and resources. If you want more details on it, I have a post in the Game Writing section under Creative in the forums.

I was wondering if any of you skilled programmers or even fairly newbish programmers know of great resources and places to learn how to program skillfully, I'm not really looking to spend money on learning to program especially when I'm not the wealthiest of persons. I know it is going to take a lot of time to learn how to program correctly. I've already used Codecademy a bit, and know some basics about JavaScript and HTML/CSS, but I was just wondering if you guys knew some better or other sources for learning. That is all.

Thank you for reading all of that, and I know to some of you it was probably just a waste of space in this forums tab, but eh, it's whatever.

I can't really give you specific resources because I have no idea which programming language you are coding your game with, but I learned most of my programming skills on YouTube and on various programming forums such as this one. I set out to make a simple game such as Pong, it sounds cliche but it's true. You should start off with a very simple game to get your feet wet and work your way up to more and more complex games. This is where a forum with an active community comes in. In my opinion it is really really important to have somewhere you can go to ask questions. I am by no means an expert at programming, but I have done quite a bit of it and I still ask questions daily. If you have a very generic question than Google is also a good resource to get quick answers to your problems. All and all though, I simply learned by doing and asking questions.

Perhaps I wasn't very clear, seeing L. Spiro 's comment, I'm not the programmer for this game, I simply planned the entire game and have basically everything written down for it, like research towards stuff that will be inside the game, information, what will be in the game, game mechanics that should be implemented, realistic things like pollution and such, how people calculate certain things in real life, resources, biomes, basically everything that a Writer for a game is suppose to do. I just felt, that learning how to program would be cool. I only suggested that I learn programing because I really don't have anyone at the moment to program. I could surely find someone if I really threw myself out there, but I really only have talked to people I've known for a long time because I trust them, I'd rather not rely on someone I don't trust. I just figured if I learned how to program I could help. That is all, that's for your guys responses.

I don't really plan on posting this game for money or for fame, me and my friends really just wanted a game for ourselves to play, seeing how there isn't really a game that grants us everything we desire, so we figured, why not have fun making something of our own to enjoy and for ourselves instead of playing pointless games on the internet that don't offer us everything we want.

Drop your project for your own sake and for the sake of the others working with you. It is not fair to them that their hard work go to waste just because their programmer (you) has no clue how to program but just decided to jump into the deep end foolishly thinking he could learn to fly before learning to walk.

But the advice on how to learn programming remains constant. You still need to start with small projects and work your way up.

Listen to her. She knows what she's talking about.

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