How would one go about trying to do that?
to be clear the odds of my releasing a game on any platform is about 0.0000001%. however, i kind of just want to play around with the tools and get an appreciation of the effort required. i don't want to pay money to pretend to be a game developer so i'm looking for something free. Unity? if I had Unity downloaded is that enough or do I need other tools and are those other tools free?
~ kitler53 studios
Do you want to learn how to program a game? Or do you want to learn how to "make" a game? Those are two different tools. The later, Unity is great. The former? No real way, but I'd suggest monogame.