Okay, so MANY times over the last 4-5 years I've tried to make games, with shitloads of different languages and programs, most of which are absolutely terrible. Now that I better understand the indie gaming scene and programming in itself, I'm trying to get started again but none of the developing tools I'm looking at are really what I'm looking for or just not good enough. If anyone has some suggestions for programming languages/dev tools I can use that isn't overly complicated (like source SDK or UDK) or overly simplified (like game maker), I'd be happy to hear them and take a look.