I haven't seen them yet but, I think that if I were just starting out, and hadn't made a game yet, I wouldn't even answer if someone asked me how to make games. I'd just say I don't know yet.

I think that's a reasonable response. Making a video series on how make games, even when someone asks you to, doesn't seem like a reasonable response if you haven't even finished one yet.

And, you can program in game engines, they just don't force you to. But there's still a lot of programming that goes on. Immortal Defense was made in Game Maker but has 15,000 lines of code. But that's another topic, we shouldn't get off-track :D