My brother and I are engineering majors in college and we had very little coding experience (took 1 class on the basics). When we got into game development we spent about 3-4 weeks doing a whole bunch of Unity tutorials and managed to pick it up pretty quick. There are so many resources for gamedev online, including the huge community-driven forums. UE4 was even quicker because of their unique visual blueprint coding, which was designed especially for non-coders like artists.
A great way to start learning is to think of games you enjoy playing or want to make, then looking up tutorials that fit that genre. It's what helped us get started.
kennethlng
Kenneth joined
Co-founder and creative director of Dissonance Entertainment. Currently working on "Mind the Traps," a multiplayer, dungeon crawler party game. I enjoy learning and writing about business & marketing in game development and start-ups.