question, i am an animator, have around a year of experience. i work mainly on maya, but know after effects and mudbox. a little speed tree (just a bit) and of course photoshop. i was wondering, how could i move into game development? im not a programer, i just know a bit of MEL (maya). i was wondering if making a game like to the moon would be possible for me? 

With missions this time!

Well making a game like to the moon is technically very easy since they used rpg maker, but unfortunately for you your animating skills would basically go to waste since it's a 2D engine. You'd instead need to create game art. If you don't plan to sell the game, ripping off google is super easy. If you want to go that route game maker is probably the best because it doesn't require coding and there are tons of tutorials plus tons of open source sprites. Retro City Rampage was made with it.

As you'll learn pretty quickly it's not that hard to get a sample game up and running, even if you are brand new at it.

Yeah! I should stress that I want to miney boost! Races work really well.

If I wanted to make games, where would I start?

Take turns exploiting lol

a Pen and Paper and start drawing.

Yep! Alex found out that you can sell a car every 48 mins and 2 seconds is a min in game. So we need to keep that in mind, the baller suv is worth 9gs

Yup making that money.

Board games are actually making a comeback, so this isn't that bad of advice.

Unless he wants to make video games, then that's really bad advice!

Unless he wants to do art for games, then that's ok advice.

@Fishtaco

Unless you want to be a jack of all trades, team up with some friends and focus on specific aspects of a game. Like 3D modeling, script writing, programming, level desing, etc.