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If you have experience with game making in general, then sure, you could try Unity or UDK, but if you're new to the subject all together, I'd highly suggest starting out with a RPG Maker variant, which is alot simpler to use than the aformentioned programs, and provides a good basis to all concepts of programming and game design in general. As for your other question, a game engine is basicly just a compilation of functions made to make your life easier when making a game, keep in mind engines are libraries, for the most part, so no, they don't have a language of their own, but they do have a lot of functions that you'll need to learn and extend the language you're currently using with. Beyond the simple coding aspect you also probably want to find some ways to work with a team. I've only had a couple experiences working with a team (meaning me and one other person) and it was about four times as hard to manage everything even though I was working with just one person. With a team of even more people it must get exponentially harder. As long as you are still motivated to get things done, go ahead and be a little lazy. It can be easy to accept that using third party libraries or engines is somehow not "real" programming, but this conclusion is often reached with a kind of "macho" attitude. I've worked on an MMORTS, two ship shooters, and a top-down RPG. One thing is certain... I wish, for the love of all things holy, that I could use a magic wand and materialize a game out of thin air. I wish this today, even after using both high-level and low-level technologies.

Magazines: Game Maker's Digest 9 and indie(Magazine) 4 » Game ...

Or those he “requests” to participate.

Like the redesigned YoYo Games website launched yesterday it looks like this was pushed out to meet an internal deadline rather than concentrating on first getting the product entirely completed.

The PDF download contains 42 pages but take away the cover, contents, introduction, advertisements and section separating pages and less than half is left as real content.

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The initial release of this issue featured empty Tutorials and Games Showcase sections however the first of these has now been filled in an updated copy of the magazine file.  Tutorials links to two of the official YoYo Games tutorials whilst Games Showcase will make its first appearance in the next issue.

There was a lot of bumf, with adverts for GameMaker 8.1 and the competing indie(Function) downright bizarre, but not a lot of real hard content in there which was a shame.  I would much prefer a shorter, less cluttered, release.

  The fourth issue of indie(Magazine) [ left-click only download ] has only one piece of GameMaker content. Aside from game screenshots the design is also rather dull and there are also some transparency issues with the layout, not a great first impression.

Nathan Hurde takes a train journey and chats up a girl in her twenties who desperately tries to ignore him by playing games on her phone in what is probably the best written piece in the magazine. Despite its at times cringe-worthy style Nathan makes some valid, if rather obvious, observations about casual mobile gaming.

There is a review of the “C/C++” Steam game Death and the Fly

I had a few problems with the Game Maker’s Digest release…

The Foxit reader ad (why was that advertised anyway?) and the editorial relating to it confused me. It’s supposed to be read ‘Side-by-side’? Why? What difference does it make to the magazine’s content?

I’ll stick with Acrobat Pro, thanks.

Plus, why was there an ad for a competing magazine?

Did he actually get permission from Banov to publicize Phantasmaburbia?

And most of all, why was he advertising Game Maker in a Game Maker magazine?

I could go on, but it’s better just to let people read Phil’s assessment of it.