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Oh, one more question: What about copyrighted music? Are we allowed to include that in the game, or must it be copyright-free?

Thanks for the reply! Even though I had already started learning how to use Stencyl, I'll probably download Unity and check it out too. I have a great idea for a story (Probably going with a mix of 2D platformer and visual novel with some puzzles the player needs to solve in order to push the story narrative), so the programming and the visuals are gonna be my biggest hurdles, but I can tackle those when I get to them. Maybe some 8-bit art won't be too hard for me to come up with. Again, thanks for replying to me!

Okay, so I am 100% down for this "No Excuses" thing, but I would like to say that I've never actually coded a day in my life besides one HTML Web Design class in high school. I start my video game programming degree on October 10th, but until then all I've done is basically research because in the past I wanted to make mods for a few games but I (you guessed it) made excuses and didn't do it. Maybe I'm a bit too ambitious here, but I have tried using Stencyl before in the past and that wasn't too bad, would it be possible for me to meet an artist and make something (I literally can't art at all, that's not an excuse but me simply wanting to spare you from a game about poorly drawn stick figures) in a matter of 3 weeks when I've never actually made anything, and if so which engine would be easiest for a total beginner noob like me?