Tom Francis, a games writer turned developer, also has a very good series on creating a game with no experience from the perspective of a self taught programmer. You can also read up on things and ...

For many, game development seems like an unreachable dream. We envision a world where we can come up with an idea, hunch over a laptop, bang out some code and – voila – video game. Tom Francis ...

I just fulfilled a childhood dream: I made a videogame. OK, it's barely a game. It's not challenging—you can complete it in a few minutes, and the one-bit graphics make old Atari games look ...