Hey, well its like it says... I need help.

I'm literally hot off the press for game desiging, the only program I have actually used is RPG Maker XP so its not the most in detail or helpful for the matter for a learning developer. So I was wondering if anyone could just point me in the right direction for a pretty practical 2D game engine developer tool, maybe with some tutorial site or something ?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Jess