Squido posted:

Hullo, My friend and I are both looking to make a 2d top down scrolling shooter but with 3d graphics. I am looking for advice on what programming language to use.
We are both artists with only basic programming knowledge and due to our problems in finding a programmer nearby we have decided to learn to code it ourselves. I've read the sticky and looked into Pygame, but the screenshots on their site seem to be lacking in much 3d. We are willing to learn pretty much anything, but would like it to be the most appropriate and useful to us perhaps in the future.

The game will probably have a fairly static camera the majority of the time, with the majority of objects on the screen being 3d. As per the genre there would be alot of poo poo going on, I have heard some languages are slightly slower than others, I have no idea if this would effect us though I would guess it would depend more upon the quality of programming and how resource heavy the art assets were.

Obviously I am doing my own research, but i'd like thoughts from some people who know what they're talking about, any advice is appreciated thanks!