How to start making games after developing websites?

Question

Game development

I am currently working as a back end php developer. I know js a little, now I'm studying golang and writing a project on it. PHP was chosen
as the easiest language to start a career in, but writing websites can sometimes be boring, and game development has always attracted me.
I looked at vacancies, there are those where you need a backing to play golang/php. In this regard, the question is whether there will be other tasks there,
or in fact the same crud, and how logical is my idea to enter gamedev through the back end. Or is it worth learning c ++ and engines right away?
It is also interesting how deep knowledge of mathematics is needed.

Answer 1

Join the team as a programmer or game designer. Learn the language you need. It seems to me that it is not a problem for a (real) programmer to learn any language if desired and necessary (except that C ++ may seem unnecessarily difficult if you choose it as a first language, but as a second it is not so scary).
If you assemble the team yourself, then most likely you will have to forget about programming, because. There will be too many other hassles. And other areas in game development will have to be studied long and deeply, so it would be wise to sacrifice programming. And you will need to clearly articulate how your game will stand out, prove it (at least to yourself and the team), and then hang it in a frame as an icon and remember it all the time - because this is what will bring money. An abstract simple game in a vacuum does not generate profit. Well, all other KPIs, of course, should also be given attention as a manager.
Although, if your goal is to make a simple game alone, and you don’t need profit from the project, then you can take any game engine, the same Unity, and just start doing something. And then, depending on the degree of your motivation and involvement, you will either achieve heights in this matter, or quit, realizing that this is not your thing.

Answer 2

It all depends on the genre. HTML5+JS+PHP is enough.
I would make a simple game, Here, let's take Jail. You can make a small prototype without graphics. Repeat their mechanics.
I'm just currently working on a project that is remotely similar to this game. But some mechanics are repeated.

Answer 3

I am currently working as a back end php developer. I know js a little, now I'm studying golang and writing a project on it. PHP was chosen as the easiest language to start a career in, but writing websites can sometimes be boring, and game development has always attracted me.

Well, let's start - make some kind of browser-based strategy with a common world. PHP + basic JS is quite enough for this (make battles automatic - when the result of the battle is displayed immediately).
It can be even more interesting than working in the "office" game development, there are enough problems there.
+ will have your project in the portfolio.
Mathematics (if we take the sphere of simple browser games without 3D graphics) is needed to calculate balance, economics, but by this point 99% of indie developers are already falling off - because they think that developing games is just as fun and easy as playing games.