Getting started - what you'll need

You will need:

• An idea for your game
• A development environment
• Hours and hours of free, quiet time
• Some programming experience (but don't sweat it too much, doing and learning is a reinforcing cycle)
  

Optional (but really, really useful!)

• A source code repository
• Image editing software
• 3D modelling software

I'll take these one at a time, and link the posts together as they're written.