What should i do to start creating games?

me and a freind want to make a game for comuters, it doesent have to be state of the art it just has to be a alright game, like original doom or sompthing. i was wondering if i could have a list of programs and like a website on how to use them. and do i need to know a programing language?|||Learn C++ %26amp; General Programming


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http://www.cppgameprogramming.com/cgi/na鈥?/a>


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http://www.toymaker.info/Games/html/begi鈥?/a>


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Free Electronic Books


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Thinking in C++ 2nd Edition by Bruce Eckel


Volume 1 %26amp; Volume 2


http://www.mindview.net/Books/TICPP/Thin鈥?/a>





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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs


by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman


HTML


http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/b鈥?/a>


PDF


http://deptinfo.unice.fr/~roy/sicp.pdf





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How to Design Programs


by Matthias Felleisen, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew Flatt and Shriram Krishnamurthi


http://www.htdp.org/





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GNU GCC Setup


http://ems.calumet.purdue.edu/mcss/kraft鈥?/a>


Free Electronic Books|||hey buddy.... making games is not so easy as u thinking.....


i am not saying that u can't make any game ....but i am saying that making games need lots of programing skills..... one must achive the highest level of programming skills to make a small game...


making game is writting codes in a programming language..


and these codes can be of 3000-10,000 lines of programes.... it require lot of effort and logical thinking capacity....


so my advise is that u must learn language( like JAVA or any another depending on the faield of intrest of yours..) and than think of making game..... any problem contact me at "viny4frnds at yahoo dot com"|||director mx 2004


flash mx 2004





they used to be made by Macromedia but now they are made by Adobe


dont get the full professional versions, start off with a trial. here are some sites for tutorials





http://www.vtc.com/products/Macromedia-Director-MX-2004-tutorials.htm





http://www.entheosweb.com/Flash/default.asp