answer:This may sound vague, but yes, and then some. Seriously, you need a WIDE range of skills to make video games. A wide enough range that most games are made by teams as it’s extremely rare to find all those skills in one person. And that is just the technical aspect of it; never mind designing the game that you want to make into a video game in the first place. You can have all the computer skills in the history of ever at ungawdly levels, but if you cannot write storylines, make characters, design worlds, or stuff like that, you just plain will not have a game, video or otherwise. Then there is balancing the game, something that generally requires a bit of math skill. Yes, math. Games have mechanics, and many of them revolve around numbers. Even the stuff that wouldn’t seem like it’d involve numbers must be made into something that can be expressed by numbers since computers only understand numbers. Honestly, I’d say the best place to start is the concept, followed by the design, then assembling a team.