How to Make a Game 101

Hello everyone! So, 32bit.cafe are right now doing a Back to School event, where they ask participants to make an educational/informative page on their site to teach about something “everyone knows.” The thing I am here to teach is probably not quite as universally thought of as “obvious”, but while I was sitting around in game design circles I was baffled by how rudimentary people’s understanding of their own games was. And so, I am here to teach you all the basics of making your own game! Step 1 is not learning how to code. I am sure several of you were thinking it. No, you do not need to learn to code to make your game. This is actually part of the problem, people think of a game as a program that you run. A program that has a similar visual language and control scheme to other, similar programs in the past, but does something extra. You take Street Fighter, and you add gacha. You take Chess, and you add a fog of war. That’s how people tend to think of making games, and it’s why…