Greetings, student! Welcome to GameDev.net. I read the title of your post and thought I could add something about what to prioritize in your levels. But then I read the body of your post and you didn't ask anything about levels. And by the wording of your final sentence (the question you're asking)…

Hello, all.

Very very new here. I'm an experienced programmer with a specific idea. As such a lot of the design work has been done for me, and I'm confident in my programming skills. What I'm not confident in is my game development skills, and I'm smart enough to realize it's a very different beast …

Please keep “game design” (ie what is the user doing in the game, and how to make the game interesting for them) separate from “game programming” (ie how to realize the game design into a playable form on a computer).

The latter also has a design usually in terms of classes and interface, but that i…

Jvdicator said:
I know it's a lame way to do stuff …

Nonsense! It's the use of a tool, the application of a previously-solved problem to simplify the current problem.

After all, if we always required ourselves to solve things from first principles, then we'd likely not have most of the technology that…

if you thinking in something like a “visual Novel” in wich one you have different choices at different points of the game you have to make a file or Database file or even in someclass of variables array into the EXE program in wich one you can “track” the correlation of some parts that conduit to o…