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Sooner or later I will have to cooperate with one or more people for a project, it's something common in this, isn't it?

No.

But if you can't program, you have the short end of the stick. It is easier to comission assets or find free ones.

There is a reason  why most games use an existing engine and basically design their "level" on that engine. That is not only a lot easier, it saves on need for programming knowledge. You only need to learn how to operate the engine for the basic stuff. For story telling that is only superficial programming. Implementing actual logic, even something like creating a tetris clone, that would be lot's more demanding on programmin skills.

To elaborate my no,  most games I saw on itch are single person made. If I see groups, it is basically a small company already. 

Thank you for this answer. The truth is that for a long time I felt guilty for deciding to stay tied to engines that did not require knowledge in programming (mainly rpg maker) but with this kind of experiences I see that even so, I have the opportunity to defend with what I know and I have at hand.

On the other hand I'm surprised by so many responses saying "no, working as a team to make a game is the most stressful" because from the outside it doesn't seem the case, like, a bunch of devs talking cool and agreeing to do their dev stuff together. That's not the reality as far as I can see.

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Hah. Even aaa game companies rarely create their own engine. But the engines they use cost real moneys.

Deving together is like making a movie with several directors.

Can be done, but is hard to find directors  willing to share the work . Better find dedicated programmer or artist. But professionals usually like to get paid. And non professionals, well, look at the other comments. Good advice there.  Or just look at a discussion and changelog of some wikipedia pages. On the surface the strangers work well together, but under the hood, the flame wars and bickering   happens    ;-)