We have a Discord and regularly talk with fans of the game on a daily basis. You're more than welcome to join there. I'm pretty open to talking to people but if I'm writing, I'm pretty quiet on there. My concentration is garage and i can't multitask so if you see my tagged as writing, expect a slow response.
I'm self-taught on everything with no experience so it's def doable. I use Daz3D for the pics. Blender has been used to create some objects in the game as well as some environments and the videos. Renpy is the coding program.