Sup DaddyOmega here, just download Construct to learn a new progie. Will update ya as soon I have a chance to play with it a bit...
Update #1 OK Seems great! I do think a few things about it suck but over all looks and works great.
Bad Thing #1 really only 4 layers 100 events for the free version :O lol I am going to be teaching myself this program with 80's style retro games with limits like that...
Bad Thing #2 heard from videos and their fan sites online that RPG's are hard to make with construct 2 if at all. I am not sure how true this is yet but i am sure I will find out soon...
With limits like stated above I am not sure how many old school coders like myself will use this program even long enough to learn its learning curve unless they are willing to spend the 130 bucks on a chance they may find out that they don't care for or can't use the higher end version or it don't handle what they are wanting to build anyways.
I do like the program better then others of its kind and I am diggin the physics & its isometric features. I do plan on spending a few months playing around with construct 2 and I hope in 6 months or so to be putting out games of bigger sizes and at a faster pace then I could coding or using other programs like this. Greatest thing of all the paid version is not going to cost me my first born child.