As far as I know to make a video game you need to make the 3-d models and you also need to program the code of the game. My question is if anybody knows how these two are joined how do you tell a piece of code to interact with 3-d figures made in 3D studio max or maya, and what programming languages are used in the video game industry?
I know this is not a site dedicated to this subject but I am still asking this here because I know this site is visited by experts in many field of computers.

Thanks