game making suggestions

That's a very broad and vague question. What kind of game do you want to develop? What genre? What platform?

Assembly, and learning to write your own engine is always the best way.

RPG Games:RPG Maker
Platformers:Gamemaker studio
Shooters:Game maker 10.0(Or something like that)

I don't think that you would have a case in court regardless of which program you choose, but try out the freeware version of Game Maker to test yourself with.