Sorry for the confusion, not continue our original game. That died. It's like an ex-girlfriend. For various reasons, you just can't go there again. I meant continuing game development in general.

really sad thing.

It broke all of our hearts.

I'm going to try game maker 7.0 out first, then i'll try that.

so far, game maker has a pretty good tutorial.

I could get you to write an AWESOME video game in under an hour.

the first thing you do is hit a button and then "hello world" appears on your screen. you'll play it for years to come it's so fricken sweet.

Yah its really fun =) And it all compiles to an EXE so you can share it with anyone with a PC.

 First lets clarify something, none of these are "buzz words,"  They are just what they are.  Memory Management is memory management.  Its not like "fiscal responsibility," these are just what these things are, and to truely program a game, outside of a small hobby piece together, you will need to learn them.

Now, that being said, I am not trying to disuade him, just lay out the path ahead of him if he is interested in becoming a game programmer.

Strategyking92: One thing I may suggest for someone in your position, someone with a lot of ideas but lacking in technical background, is to persue more of a game designer role, rather than a programmer. If you have any friends who have more technical of a background, team up with them.  Miyamoto did NOT program a single game, he just designed them.  So if you want to make games, see if you can team up with some friends and get something going.

Depends on what you want to do really, but no matter what you will have to get experience.

Obviously if you want to be any kind of a programmer there's no hope, at least not in this decade.

If you want to be an artist it's perfectly fine that you don't have a lot of experience with computers. Learning things like Photoshop and Max take a few weeks but the real meat and potatoes of art are things like life drawing and sculpting and you don't need any computer experience for that.

If you want to go into design (game or level) you don't really need computer experience, just game experience along with a few other key skills that don't necessarily involve computers. The only exception is that you should at least be familiar with Office but that's really it. After learning good design techniques, it just comes down to learning whatever editor you happen to be working in which requires no previous experience.

Sure, just pick up RPG maker for the PS1.

Depends what you mean by a "game".

In theory, something as simple as "tossing a coin" and guessing the outcome is a "game" - and there are programs you could use to make a game like that (without typing).

But "game" in terms of the games discussed on this site - not a chance in hell. In fact, a single person (on their own) regardless how good they are - will struggle to make even a simple "modern" game, even given a long period of time.

Learn how to use a PC, then learn how to program... then go from there.