Making Video Games

Just pick a library or game engine that will suit you and then learn the language associated with it. I suggest you to use Unity because its most popular engine. It can create 2D and 3D games, and can compile (export) to any platform like browsers, windows, linux or even android. Here's a link to official documentation but it may be a bit overwhelming for beginners so you should consider learning from YouTube or other sites, here's a decent text guide.

I dont recommend to use game maker because you will just face limits at some point, and you can spend that time learning Unity which is not only limitless but also one of top engines.