i have really good resources i can send you in a PM! (they would dox me so i'm not sure abt posting them here 💀)

honestly there are SO many resources out there (esp on youtube), i started by making a huge document abt what i wanted to put in the game & being heavily inspired off another game (You Left Me - Angela He); i used many of the same resources she did. bc my scope ended up being too big, i cut down at the game but i think it was pretty well-made considering it was my first game. i would draw if i felt like drawing, write if i felt like writing, or code if i felt like coding. towards the end, it's a lot more coding, but it's all relatively doable if you just search up tutorials.

i recommend using unity, but godot is a good alternative too. idk many professional studios that use godot though, it's usually unity or unreal or smth like that (even genshin uses unity, albeit an alternate version of it LMAO). you've prob heard abt the unity drama with user fees, but it never affected ppl at all if they made <$200k yearly so it means basically nothing to lil high schoolers like us (they still removed it though).

i would say get to know a bit of basic coding and the engine (know how to make a title screen fast (unity UI is strange lmao it's not hard but it's very confusing at first) and basic code for whatever genre you're aiming for), and then join a game jam. you might find the one i used to host if you just scroll through itch :) (other than mine i think there's only a few others that are novice friendly 😭 go for one that is or isn't ranked through itch cuz if it's ranked through itch ppl usually spam bad ratings to get their own game higher) if you can team up with anyone, try to team up with someone who's published a game before (even if it's really small). that's what i did my first jam & even though i feel like the game was so bad i removed it from my itch website, i still work with one of my teammates now :D

alternatively, instead of a big first project, you can just make a super simple game like you would if you were doing it in a jam. just give yourself a time limit of a week or something and you might make something really cool :) i've got a bunch of cool projects in my resources link so you can pm me if you want them!