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  what would be the best language to use if i just wanna make 2D and isometric games? i'm not much of a coder more of an artist, but i do know a little bit of BASIC language.   
  You might want to give GameMaker a try.   ;  i dunno i was hoping to use something that i could just code my own game, and also not have that game maker thing show up all the time. used it once to make a couple platform games.What i am planning to make now is some RPG games and RTS games. how well would game maker advance my scripting knowledge?   ;  I would suggest Python with PyGame.PythonPyGame;  You might try ika, it's basically an engine that uses python as a scripting language and there are a few rpg's that people have written for it, I'm sure you could write an rts with it as well.   