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Jul 25 2014 Anchor

i can do everything involved in making a modest commercial indie game except program and am wondering what the first step should be if i don't want to to learn to program? i whipped up a quick 18-second video that's supposed to mimic a real-time video game and show an example of what i'd like:

(i.e. scenes of typical 'talking-heads' voice-acted dialogue continue the story, in which i can set a background, set two character assets always in the same spots, set them as either active when talking or inactive and grayed-out when not, a very simple unambitious 1-player 2-d fighting game round loads involving two characters who only look different but who fight the same, the only movement commands being stand still, back, forward, crouch, jump up, jump back, jump forward, and the only attack commands being quick attack and strong attack, and the enemy AI is likely just a mashing of random commands to mimic AI, and the player must defeat the enemy to auto-save and continue the story)
i'd like to have a software or code that takes care of the programming so i can just do my thing. then after months of working on it alone, i give all credit where it's due and sell it on the major platforms like xbox live, ps store, steam, maybe phones if that's possible. i'm no programmer but i've purposely kept everything so minimal that i assume the 'game design' i described makes for easy coding?
what's my first step?
thanks!

Jul 25 2014 Anchor

So a few things first. Fighting game are not easy too program but (assuming you use unity game engine) you can always use a game kit like this one : Assetstore.unity3d.com

Regarding the programming you could try one of unitys visual programming methods Like playmaker (https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/368). Playmaker is insanely popular and has a huge community behind it on their website (http://www.hutonggames.com/) I have heard its good but personally have never used it as I have never really needed to.

The whole chat sequence that put in your video (Very good voice acting if that was you) would be incredibly easy to set up, by simple changing the changing texture colour shade on the characters material.

If you need any more help just message me.

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Sep 2 2014 Anchor

You could try GameMaker. I haven't worked with it myself, but their website says you can "create professional games without any knowledge of programming". Check it out, maybe it's exactly what you need.

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Sep 2 2014 Anchor

Here is a drag and drop 2D HTML engine, with very little coding required.
Scirra.com

Still, if you don't like programming, get guy that does the programming (usually just scripting) for the project. It does not have to be a expert coder, just someone to lend a hand.

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