Stencyl

I downloaded Stencyl and began the crash course. I learnt the basic tools and made my first game from their starter kit. 

The game was a green blob named Mambo who had to jump on Prongs the enemy. It was good getting to know the basic tools such as what the tabs meant, how to create the environment and how to add behaviors to the actors.

Learning the terminology was also beneficial as according to stencylpedia some terms like actor and actor type are interchangeable.