How can I get started with creating my own video game?

I just want to say I have been playing video games since about the age of two when my mom got me my first Super nintendo. I can still remember playing it back then til this very day. I had every system back then as soon as they would become available. Sega genesis, not the sega saturn :/, nintendo 64, playstation, not the original gameboy %26gt;:/, but I found one in a game store a few years back and still have and play it :D, Dreamcast. I'm 22 now and I would like to know if there are any programs out there that can get me started with creating my own video game for the pc system? I am running a alienware m11x laptop so its pretty nice handling graphics. Like I said I have pretty much been playing games my entire life and now I would like to try and create my own. Since the age of 14 World of warcraft has taken up a lot of my time, but now I have been playing a game called League of legends. League of legends or LoL as we like to call it isn't a HUGE world like wow is, it has much less content and graphics. I have a design in my head that I'm pretty sure could turn into the very next big game online. For 20 years Iv been a gamer so I think I know what gamers would like to play...bc I'm one ;D. Getting down to it what I really want to know is what software if any could I purchase to allow me to create a small 3d world with good graphics, nothing gigantic, only a few small levels. Would I need to assemble a team? and of what and who? Does anyone know how I could go about starting my own name company I suppose? Once everything is in progress and I'm starting to see characters and levels come to life how would I get my game online to the public...maybe for beta testing? 0.o. Just adding I'm going to school for computer science this January. Any information you could give to an aspiring game creator like myself please do. One more thing I am a very skilled artist. I have been drawing and painting for a very long time and have already sketched out map layers and a world concept.How can I get started with creating my own video game?
Making your own video game is NOT SIMPLE. It takes a lot of skills to even make a 3D block game like minecraft for example. To create 3D games you'll first need an game engine. To make a completely new game you need to make your own engine, but there are a lot of engines on the internet and the best one i think is the Unreal Engine 3. It's probably the best one out there, and it's FREE just google UDK.

If you want to make your own engine than i cannot help you, sorry. But to make a simple 3D shooter or RPG with pretty good graphics that'll run on your pc, check out Unreal Engine 3, give it a shot it's worth the try.



Hope I helped you :)



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Games these days mostly seem to be 3D modeling/animation software (same as movies) which itself, from personal experience, takes a lot of know-how of the software, time, and creating all the visuals piece by piece. Then you have the part of actually taking those creations and making it onto a game. There are reasons people typically go to school for this stuff and I personally recommend it.

Maya and 3D Studio Max tend to be the big two industry standard (Max more typically the one used for games) and quite expensive, though there are many more programs out there that could be much more affordable and the vast majority of these things work relatively the same way. You might check out one or more of these:
http://www.blender.org/
http://www.nevercenter.com/silo/
http://www.daz3d.com/

Though with all their is to know in the art and business of this stuff I still recommend considering a college or art school 3D/gaming program.