What are some professional programs used to create video games?
C++ is a language. The programs professionals use are text editors. Even Notepad can be used to write a game. Not only don’t professionals need programs to do the work for us, we don’t *want* programs producing code we don’t know about. We *want* to write it all ourselves. That way, only what we write gets into the finished product. I don’t want to spend a week debugging my program only to find out that the problem is some garbage code a program inserted for me. C++ is a good language to write games in. So is C#. So is Java.