Making a Video game- getting started

[quasarrgames]

I am going to make a video game soon . i know basically nothing about making a video game, and i am starting from scratch. I know, the video game will probably not be very good, but i will throw a good amount of effort at it and see what happens. It will be a good experience nonetheless .

I just need a bit of guidance about how to start- what programs to use to program it mainly.

a bit of into about the game:

it will run on the unity engine. it will be slightly similar to the original simcity games, but it will have different (and hopefully better) aspects of gameplay. I am thinking of using c# to program it, but i am not sure if that is the best programming language for a beginner to start with, or if it can do all the things that i intend to do with it.

I'm just wondering if anyone can help me. If you can, you will be very reputationally rewarded.

THANKS!

[cantab]

I'd say the actual coding's the small bit for making a game these days. The big bit is the artwork, so if it's to be a 3d game get to grips with 3d modelling software such as Blender.

[TheCanadianVendingMachine]

Good luck. Hopefully you understand all the code. As in - ALOT of code.

The game "air control" probably had over 1k lines of code in it. Considering a random room generator I made had over 800, in Python. Thats 2d.

Edited August 2, 2014 by TheCanadianVendingMachine

[vger]

A little advice, don't go completely insane with your first project.

Emulate something with simple mechanics first so you can get the hang of the basics. A SimCity clone will be VERY hard for a first game.