The advice is: "just make something"; so of course your question is then, "what shall I make?" http://shawnpresser.blogspot.com/2010/10/how-to-become-game-prog

The advice is: "just make something"; so of course your question is then, "what shall I make?" http://shawnpresser.blogspot.com/2010/10/how-to-become-game-programmer.html http://shawnpresser.blogspot.com/2010/10/how-to-become-game-... ^ That's an ordered list of projects, sorted by increasing difficulty. Basically, start with "guess the number".