Blurymind, thanks a lot!!! I hadn't even considered any other options, but I'm having a look now and i love it.

I just bought a very very cheap laptop/tablet with Windows so I'm going to give Construct a go, but I gotta say, I'm really getting into Gdevelop.

Okay, last question: from Stencyl I could get working Android and iOS games without any problems. It interpreted finger touches in the exact way as a mouse click. Is that also true in Construct? And, how simple is it it to export (or convert) to mac?

I'm curious: are the games in the arcade section of this webpage HTML5 then?

Glerikud: hurts me to say it because i really enjoy stencyl, but i got some lag and low FPSs even with really basic stuff. It may well be the case that it was due to my lack of programming knowledge, but then as stencyl is made for beginners, I would have expected it to be a little simpler or that those things would be taken care of. It may well be the case that construct 2 has the same problems.

I'm going to take this opportunity to share my game (work in progress). I'll probably finish it in stencyl, it would be too much work to start again with construct 2 now. Link: stencyl.com/game/play/34059

Thanks for your replies. As Construct 2 is much cheaper than even the teacher's license for stencyl, I think I'm going to look in to making a switch, as soon as I finish my current project.

Thanks for your reply. That's not really a problem for me, I can deal with fussy. I think my major problem is going to be making it run on a mac.

I've been working with Stencyl for a year and I love it; but HTML5 is still a beta feature over there and that's going to be very important for me very soon. So can anyone who has experience with both please let me know your opinions on which is better and any difficult things to watch out for in construct.

Also I'm a mac user who'd have to switch over. How difficult would that be?

Arcade game

http://www.stencyl.com/game/play/34240

Welcome to the bikiniverse

http://www.stencyl.com/game/play/34059