8. If you want to design games, you should start
designing games. You can design games with a
deck of cards. With index cards. And a pen, don’t
forget a pen. You can do it with some poker
chips, with some Lego bricks, with an old chess
board. Your first lesson is: “games are not their
graphics”. Or their framerate. They are their
rules.
– Raph Koster
TL; DR: You can start making games
with whatever you have to hand.
19. “Ok, I’ve made my small crappy boardgame.
!
I have decided the tools.
!
Now can I start making my Massive Online FPS
Arena RPG Multiplayer with 300 playable
characters and a free roaming world?”