Dear Lazyweb,

So I've just been speaking with some family friends. One of them is a 13-year-old gamer, mostly of the strategy and crazy fantasy warfare variety, and he's interested in making his own games. He isn't, to my knowledge, a programmer, so something like pygame is probably not suitable (although I guess he could learn). Many years ago, I used a piece of software called The Games Factory, which was pretty bad but did the job for making simple 2D games, and I'm aware of Adventure Game Studio, which does what it says on the tin and might be the kind of thing he's after. Can anyone recommend any other game creation software (for Windows, sadly) that doesn't need prior programming knowledge? I guess that some tool that needs you to learn some scripting language for some stuff but is a gentle introduction to it is probably the right kind of thing.