You don't need coding experience to create your first game — just a free game engine, a vision, and passion. Read on to learn how to make a video game.

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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 ...

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