02-03-2009, 08:20 PM
Begin as a Game Programmer
The best thing you can do if you are seriously considering a career in games programming is to learn c++ it is the industry standard and most games companies will expect you to know this language before considering you for a programming job.
An engine written in c++ would be a good start, the irrlicht engine coupled with your favourite IDE and a C++ language book would be extremely useful, but for starters i would try to make some 2D games, classic arcade games are fun and not extremely difficult to code.
There are tons of tutorials on making games such as tetris and pong so learn those first and get comfortable and then try to make a game without a tutorial maybes a side scrolling beat-em-up.
An engine written in c++ would be a good start, the irrlicht engine coupled with your favourite IDE and a C++ language book would be extremely useful, but for starters i would try to make some 2D games, classic arcade games are fun and not extremely difficult to code.
There are tons of tutorials on making games such as tetris and pong so learn those first and get comfortable and then try to make a game without a tutorial maybes a side scrolling beat-em-up.