Life as indie game developer: where to start?

[norubal]

Hello, my name is Norubal, I'm novice game developer, I made few study works, but those are not great.
I love designing and developing games, I think it's my vocation.
I'm just rookie now, but I have great desire. I want to be full-time indie game developer, but I don't want to starving indie game developer.

This is my question: I'm novice. I want to be a indie game developer, and I want to make a living same time. I have ambition, but I don't have experience and skills, where to start?

I don't want correct answer, I want to hear everyone's comment. thanks for reading my thread.
have a nice day!

[Azhukar]

Make a game you'd want to play if it was made by someone else.

For experience: pick any random gameplay mechanic, make a primitive demo around it. Can be as simple as walking around. Most of what you'll code will be garbage that will only help you learn.

[Davidobot]

You should start by making some Flash/HTML5 game and putting them on website like Kongregate and earn money off that. Then use that money to fund a bigger game.

[Plu]

Also check if there's subsidies available in your area, and find other indie developers in your area to hang out with and network with. There's probably a lot of people with the same ideas and they'll have lots of helpful advice.

[slime]

You should start by making some Flash/HTML5 game and putting them on website like Kongregate and earn money off that. Then use that money to fund a bigger game.

I am not sure that market is very lucrative at all these days.

[norubal]

Thanks for replys. making good game will be crucial of course.. I'm skeptical about CPM/CPC advertise, I read thread of TIGSource a while ago, some people said it worked, and other people said it didn't worked.

[Diehl]

I do not understand much about it, but on the site Gamejolt, there is a feature called "Ad Revenue Sharing", in which developers of games registered on the site can get 30% of the ad sharing revenue for their games and blogs.

I do not know if it's something really lucrative for developers, but... it is an option.