Interested in writing a computer game to improve my programming
<p>I've been trying to think of a good project to improve my programming skills. I'm heavilly interested in finance, but getting the data isn't so easy, therefore I thought I would try to make a simple computer game. The problem I have is I am not very 'graphics' savy. To be honest I dont know much about computer graphics. </p>

<p>I should say a little about my background before you provide advice- I am very mathematical and I can do Physics (not to postgraduate level, but I know a fair amount of trig and calculus etc).</p>

<p>At the moment my initial idea is some sort of game similar to command and conquer, but for prospecting for oil across a large map. To begin with, nothing fancy just entering coordinates and I could randomise the locations of oil found. However, eventually it'd be nice to make it look good- moving vehicles etc. How do companies create graphics? As far as I am aware they don't employ hosts of PhD mathematicians so they must be using libraries?</p>

<p>ps if anybody could edit this to add any more relevant tags, please do</p>
