Thanks HavocX appreciate you advice.
I so far think i can stick with the free software i think. And will, as you say, re-evaluate later and see if i need it. thanks for the course link. I shall do that today. its pretty heavily discounted at the moment. I will indeed look for small specific tutorials as there hopefully isn’t a tutorial on the game style i’m making (Or i don’t need to make it…lol) But i’m sure there IS on “building a menu for plopable items” or a menu for character interactions… or setting population controls ect…
C++ i will wait till i need it. Though i anticipate i will need to to do the menu that allows you to place building when you are in game? Though i haven’t looked that up yet. I was going to do that fairly early on (perhaps even in a small test world) to get the ideas right.
I don’t expect to have a functioning game for two years, even then, i’m sure it won’t be complete… let alone possibly marketable. I’m looking forward to learning the skills and being able to say… “Oh i BUILT a computer game…”
Thanks for your advice.