Maybe you should check out Game Editor: http://game-editor.com/Main_Page It's really simple and easy to use. It is only designed to make 2D games which shouldn't be a problem with your game. I started using it without any knowledge of programming languages at all and I started to slowly learn C and C++ (compatible languages) as I started making prototypes for games. Most of the basic stuff can be done without any use of programming languages. You can still do it all in C and/or C++ if you want to but there's a lot already built in to greatly cut down the time (including insert lines of code automatically in a few clicks). Don't worry this isn't one of those 'fake' game creators like Ben 10 Game Creator or Sploder where all the images are built in and no coding has to be done AT ALL. Those take like 20mins to make a game while with Game Editor you can make a legitimate and feature-filled game like Project Zomboid in a proper development time frame (a really long time). The game can let you export the game as an executable with many different formats: Windows, Classic Mac OS (will not work with Mac OS X(You will see when exporting it says Mac OS X but don't be fooled by that)), Pocket PC/Handheld PC , Windows Mobile-based Smartphone, GP2X and Linux. There are many built in tutorials and more on the website. You can also ask fellow developers questions not already answered by official tutorials. I hope this helped!
