I wouldn't dive into Rust right now if you're trying to get into game development at the same time - leave that for when you're a bit more used to general game

I wouldn't dive into Rust right now if you're trying to get into game development at the same time - leave that for when you're a bit more used to general game dev. Using Lua inside a development environment/engine could be a good start - there's a couple of Lua-based development frameworks that might be worth checking out. Start with 2D games as they're much simpler to get going with and get used to how a game engine will look. After that, it depends what you want to do. If you mostly want to create some interesting games and care more about the gameplay design side, using a pre-existing engine/framework is best. If you are interested in the development and high-performance side of things as I am, then learn C (not C++) and OpenGL. This is not as hard as it might seem. The best OpenGL tutorial I have found is http://duriansoftware.com/joe/An-intro-to-modern-OpenGL.-Chapter-1:-The-Graphics-Pipeline.html http://duriansoftware.com/joe/An-intro-to-modern-OpenGL.-Cha... - this will get you writing graphics code from scratch and starting to understand what is going on. You don't need to become a graphics expert, but actually understanding how this side of things works will be invaluable. If you have questions, my email is in my profile and I can be reached there. Happy to answer individual queries. I'm not currently working in the Games Industry (day job is Scala in Finance) but my side project of the last 2 years is a cross platform engine + game written in C and Lua.