Great welcome guys, thank you all.
I'm not looking to do anything sophisticated actually. Not at all. I'd be happy just to start making some pong.
I'll give the shoot em up example a shot. I looked at it before and thought it looked like a good tutorial, but I was hoping for some more general help in learning the language.
I would like to rewrite the game I'm working on in game maker to bennu, it's fairly simple, just collision checking, objects that bounce around a room, stuff like that. But my main issue with game maker is that if I ran into a problem where something just didn't work right, I had to change the design of the game to make it work with game maker's mechanics.
I checked out the BennuPack at the link that was posted and was way overwhelmed. I couldn't find any actual english tutorials, just code examples, which I'm sure will be very helpful but I'm terrible at learning from staring at code.
Edit: The shoot em up tutorial is missing the fpg needed. Is there anyone who still has it by chance?