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From what I read I assume you have no prior programming experience.
If this is true, all your questions point to the same reply:

Try to follow some beginner tutorials and forget the game for a while.
Learn about basic things like types, variables, loops, conditions.
Then go deeper to object oriented programming like classes, instances, properties.

Then some of your questions will be self answered and the others will be meaningless.

Almost everything in your list is a matter of personal choice.

- I like to concentrate on the most difficult part of the game first and then do simple and easy things like the menus, the messaging etc.
- An obvious wrong approach for a newbie would be a spaghetti code. Learn from the day one to split your code into logical parts and comment your code by any means! Will save you hours/days/weeks as the project grows in files and time

Good luck and don't let the first (and probably many) problems disappoint you.
The amount of joy you will feel at the moment your first game will be complete is enormous! Trust me.

I understand what I'm doing but I don't understand where to start. It's like I'm being given a tent and taught how to make the tent but not being told where to put the tent if that makes sense. The main question is basically where do I start (i.e start on level 1, a menu, etc.) because I want to put this tent on flat sturdy ground and not quick sand.