   I am new to this and need to know were to start
  hi i need help with everything to be honest were to start what to start with what programs to use any help would be great thanks.   
  I'm not sure on your skill level so I will just copy and paste my other response that answers your question as well.I would suggest Game Maker if you're just looking to make a game without learning all the programming stuff.http://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker/If you're interested in learning a scripting language, try out Python with PyGame.http://www.python.org/http://www.pygame.org/news.htmlIf you want to learn C# with XNA try those out.http://www.csharp-station.com/Tutorial.aspxhttp://www.microsoft.com/express/vcsharp/http://creators.xna.com/en-US/That is all I would recommend for a starting game developer.   ;  As anyone here would say I would suggest you to look at this section: http://www.gamedev.net/reference/start_here/Besides that you may look around the For Beginners forum, since there are many similar threads started nearly every day.   