While it's true there's a lot of deep coding that can go into games (especially ones which push the capabilities of the hardware), it's also quite possible with

While it's true there's a lot of deep coding that can go into games (especially ones which push the capabilities of the hardware), it's also quite possible with the tools we have to make very successful (and quite good) games with fairly little coding ability. A lot of indie games are a complete trainwreck at the source code level and yet very fun to play. For a good example, see the source code for VVVVVV[0], which is not elegant or high quality C++ code (and it was ported from not particularly elegant ActionScript) but it clearly did the job. [0] https://github.com/TerryCavanagh/VVVVVV https://github.com/TerryCavanagh/VVVVVV