Contrary to what you think, Unity would probably be an excellent start for you. It's highly flexible and has tons of resources.

data whoring experiment has a BIG bias, don't you think? 

This bias you speak of is the basis of the experiment. 


@Franklins Ghost
It's partly a test for me in collecting/analyzing statistics, but I also want to see what people think of other games compared to mine. It should reveal some interesting trends in what people consider "better" in images and give me a good idea of how my game stacks up on a superfluously subjective scale.

Data whoring experiment
http://maninbluesweatshirt.com/lizardpoll/main.html

Please participate.



Also, latest design notes for everyones' gluttinous consumption, now with 500% more profanity and 105.5999999% more thought process(blabbering) included.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21167434/7DRL-Lizard%20Warrior/brainstorming%20april%2014th.txt

Would anyone be interested in me posting design documents or would you all rather only see results?

Summary of this thread:



Phubans is Ricky Gervais.

I hope to match the artistic skill displayed in the Persona games someday. 

Wow I never noticed that lower jaw until the post quote.
Looks much better!


Scribbling around.

[EDIT]
More scribbles:

Right about now I want to strangle my friend for RROD'ing my Xbox last year. God damn it all.

Why don't you send it to Microsoft.

They won't repair it because it's past two years old. Even though it's a manufacturing defect they won't replace it because of warranty expiration. >_>

Right about now I want to strangle my friend for RROD'ing my Xbox last year. God damn it all.

I don't think you're bringing her likeness through well at all... Not like you have *that much* to go off of, but you didn't even get the bangs..~

Also your fanart's face looks fairly tense and rigid where Dorothy's always looks relaxed and expressionless.

I used Logitech dual action or something.

I have the exact same controller, curiously. Small world. 
Yes I know PC controllers aren't uncommon, but most I see out there are Xbox 360 controllers for PC.

I have one too, I think they're pretty common.

Tried my hand at making some imgui sweetness with flashpunk. 

It's pretty great working with UI like this.

I also made a nice little imgui for my game, only in C++

Code:

GUI::Begin();
if(GUI::Button(GUI_ID, 5, 5, 100, 40)) World::Add(new Player(GUI::state.mouseX, GUI::state.mouseY, "data/player.png"));
if(GUI::Button(GUI_ID, 5, 50, 100, 40)) printf("schveven\n");
if(GUI::Slider(GUI_ID, 5, 95, 200, 32, 200, val)) printf("%d \n", val);
GUI::TextBox(GUI_ID, 5, 137, 424, 30, text, font);
GUI::End();

I've gotten around to making a version of my FP IMGUI in my C++ engine now
I'm very happy with it. My code is super sloppy but it's already much better than my previous one.

What I'm curious about is how many people will actually try to code.
And out of that, how many people will become interested in programming, just from this game.

This is way better than that FPS for teaching coding that was on Kickstarter a while back. 

God forbid if a minority of consumers are willing to shell out an import cost so they can experience a game that was not deemed viable for large-sale commercial success in their country

It sounds like you may have a framework version mismatch or something with the SDL core.

If only SDL core is bugged that might be why polling events caused you an error and not other things.

I'm taking a shot in the dark here because I'm not very familiar with SDL's architecture or how frameworks operate.

[MMORPG + DDR-style]

MMORPG + DDR-style

don't worry Game Maker did that before 0x10c did.

Btw, thank you everybody for the wonderful compliments.

I've done some more visual updates:


I'm going to go back to adding gameplay features soon.


[EDIT]

Implemented Toad(the frog). He is far less mobile than Lizardman but is much more versatile in attacking.

"so what got you into making games?"

"well you see... tits  "

It's because that's an "A" not a "4".

http://raoxcrew.deviantart.com/

Quick google search brought that up.