How 3 friends created and published a video game in less than a year without writing a single line of code ?

About a year ago, two friends and I casually discussed the idea of creating a video game. We did not know what we wanted to do nor how to do it. Where do we start ? So to begin with, we started to review all the video games genres we liked, to see if we had any in common. From that, we quickly studied the current business situation of the party games as that was what we opted for. It seemed to us that it was kind of an opportunity as there were not many party games out there although being a niche genre. We created a company to be able to share hypothetical revenues fairly and had to find a bank to host our company account. After discussing all of this, we were ready to start and deep dive in the actual project. Actually starting So we knew the genre of game we wanted to make but how do we actually create a video game ? We started to study game engines, how to publish a game and on which platform (Steam, Epic, itch.io, …) as both are linked. We did want to publish it on PC and most lik