Hi,
Visual Basic is a language that isn't exactly meant for making games. If your speaking about VB6, games have been made for that, but if your talking about VB.NET, don't even try making a game. You will find that it isn't worht the pain.
As for other languages, I'd recommend Ruby. Ruby is a very easy to learn language and is very easy to understand (although it has many different symbols like ., #, and :: for function separators, but those are the only three). It can get very confusing at first, but you will find that it becomes easy to understand after a while. It has OOP as well, allowing you to find out why lots of people love OOP. (you don't have to learn OOP immediately, but be warned! (hint): You'll find that everything is an object.)

The only problem I'd have with learning python is that I've been told that there is only 1 library for python games, and that library has many bugs, but if that was wrong I'd be happy to learn that one. but thanks for the insite on vb.net and games. if I actually end up learning it it would likely just be for software.

Severestormsteve1, a lot depends on what version of Visual Basic you mean. Do you mean VB 6 and earlier, or do you mean Visual Basic .NET?

If you are talking about Visual Basic 6 and prior versions I'd say no. Although, it was used for games in the past  the language, tools, etc are extremely old and deprecated. SO I would not recommend using it for any new projects.

However, as for VB .NET it depends on the project, but I'd say it still has some use to developers. It is fairly easy to work with and while I might not suggest it for games it is fairly handy for creating other applications and stuff. I rather like VB .NET as a quick and dirty programming language. Although, you could certainly develop games in it if you wanted too.

As for Python there is certainly more than one library available for game development. Not sure where you got the idea there is only one library for game development, but it is not true. Off the top of my head there is PySDL, PySDL2, Pygame, Pyglet, etc. Those are just the more common ones. So if you ever decide to take up Python for game development there is a lot more out there than you seem to think.

Hi Severestormsteve.
That is visual basic script not visual basic .net. Visual basic .net you download when you download a version of visual studio that you want. I don't know much about vb script but imagine it's something like applescript so I wouldn't think it would be good for audio games.
I don't know who you've been talking to but it's obviously somebody who knows nothing about python. I'm not going to list any libraries because tward pretty much got them all, at least all the python gaming libraries I know of.
Pygame is very buggy indeed but it's still easy to play and position sounds create menus stuff like that. I like pyglet I used to use that all the time when I did programming. It's great for creating menus and sub menus do timed events and a whole lot more. The only really disappointing thing is that the developer is abandoning pyglet so it probably won't be up to date for much longer.
Hth.

Hi Severestormsteve.
Yes with python you can delete and add arrays at anytime. I don't know why purebasic won't let you do this.
After you mentioned it I looked into vbs it's very limited. Somebody was talking to me about autoit the other day and I realized autoit is just a puffed up version of vbs. Applescript and vbs are the same thing they just run on different systems.
For python game examples the only one I know of is usa blackjack. Basically it demonstrates how variables, random, and message boxes are used in python. I've never seen any other python audio game examples. In the pygame and pyglet documentation there's examples on how to do certain things but it mostly shows you how to deal with graphics. I'll look around for audio game python code but I'm not sure where to find some you might check stackoverflow they have people on there write about all kinds of stuff.
Hth.

Hello,
Learn Python The Hard Way might not be right for you. It assumes that the reader is a beginner, not only to Python, but to programming as well. While this may be right for some, I think, as steve has programmed before, it's probably not entirely right for him. May I recommend learning python with Mark lutz in stead? if you like lengthy, in-depth books, you can't have anything better than learning python.
Then again, if you like a quick and dirty introduction,
this is good

post code please. if it is possible, please create a basic menu, and a start game option that lets you walk around on a little map. I don't doubt you I'm just curious as well as to what it is capable of. Because of the form designer I was thinking of building a small autosaving notepad in it with some basic tools on it like s quad word, but having forms makes it easier than it is in pure basic.

Replicated it in a few minutes using Pyglet/Python. Same function, opens window, M to post "hello world" text to screen, C to close.

import pyglet
from pyglet.window import key

class Example(pyglet.window.Window):
    def __init__(self):
        super(Example, self).__init__(640, 480, resizable=False, fullscreen=False, caption="Example")
        self.clear()

        self.key_input = []

        pyglet.clock.schedule_interval(self.update, .01)

    def update(self,dt):
        if 'M press' in self.key_input:
            pyglet.text.Label('hello world!',x=20,y=20).draw()

        if 'C press' in self.key_input:
            self.close()

        self.key_input = []

    def on_key_press(self,symbol,modifiers):
        self.key_input.append(key.symbol_string(symbol) + " press")

if __name__ == '__main__':
    window = Example()
    pyglet.app.run()

Let's see, just for craps and giggles, how we can replicate this in pure basic because that's my native language. xd.

initSprite()
initKeyboard()
openWindow(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, "Little hello world program.")
openWindowedScreen(0, 0, 0, 1000, 1000)
procedure AppMain()
messageRequester("hello", "hello dudes. press ok, and that will take you to the main loop. rofl.")
repeat
event = windowEvent()
examineKeyboard()
if KeyboardReleased(#pb_key_m)
messageRequester("hello", "hello again!")
endIf
if KeyboardReleased(#pb_key_c)
end
endIf
delay(5) ;that line isn't even really necessary for an app like this
until event = #pb_event_closeWindow
endProcedure
AppMain()

There are probably near 50 python libraries for making GUIs. Some more that have not been said are:
Kivy (for IOS, Android, Windows, OSX and Linux)
PyQt (For IOS, Android, Windows, Linux, OSX)
WXPython (for Windows, Linux and OSX)
panda3d (for Linux, Windows and OSX)
tkinter (Windows, OSX, Windows)
PySide (I'm not sure if you get IOS and Android, but for sure Windows, Linux and OSX)
Then what's been said before:
pyglet (Windows, OSX and Linux)
pygame (Windows, OSX and Linux)
PySDL1 and 2 (Windows, Linux and OSX)
Cocos2d (Not sure about IOS and Android, but for sure Windows, Linux and OSX)

I think part of the reason why people have not developed any audio games in python is that there are so many choices for libraries that is kind of over-whelming.

Here are my choices:
PyQt5 is probably the most versatile, but it is GPL and Qt Itself is LGPL. So if you would like to sell your game it will cost like $500 for a life-time license on the PC and I think $6000 for a life-time license for Qt and PyQt. (You only need the Qt Licence if you are going to bundle it as a single executable, I don't know if you can make an app that is several files on IOS)
On top of that, the documentation is kind of complex, the API is only in C++.
But there are standard widgets like buttons, edit boxes, combo boxes, menus and whatnot. There is also a web browser.

panda3d is just for Windows, Linux and OSX, but it is for games and is free. It is great, but does not have standard widgets and does not have a port to IOS. It is made for games though and the documentation is really good.

Both these libraries have both a C++ and python version.

Here is an example in panda3d:
from direct.showbase.ShowBase import ShowBase
from accessible_output import speech
spk = speech.Speaker().output

app = ShowBase()
app.accept('space', spk, ["Hello world"])
app.run()

Here is the same in PyQt5 (*note the above was using python2, the next is using python3, so accessible_output2 is used)

import sys
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QApplication, QWidget
import accessible_output2.outputs.auto
spk = accessible_output2.outputs.auto.Auto().output

class Window(QWidget):
    def keyPressEvent(self, key):
        if key.text() == " ":
            spk("Hello world")

app = QApplication(sys.argv)
window = Window()
window.show()
sys.exit(app.exec_())