Game programming is alot of work. it takes months to program a game and debug it and make it stable. I took C Programming in college and made 2 windows games and alot of little text based games. you can get alot of help from sourceforge. they got some great games with source code. 3d graphics and everything. the unreal developers kit is also very useful. if you took math classed in high school you should be able to get started in C Programming. if you are an artist and know how to use photoshop that is also very useful. animators get paid alot of money and it is alot of fun. most people want to do something they like doing. it is alot better than working at taco bell. so if you are very smart and you enjoy working on computers you can probably get a very nice job doing that. you have to work hard at it and focus on what you really want to do and don't screw up.