What sort of language are you using?

Python. The other languages look insanely intimidating.

They're really not, Python is a good language to work and learn in, and many of the control structures and data structures you use regularly are in every language so once you get over the syntax barrier you can code very easily. The trick to making a Graphical Interface as opposed to using a text-based command line interface is just learning to use a library which lets you make GUIs. For Python I've always enjoyed using [url=http://www.pygame.org/news.html]Pygame[/url], there are good [url=http://www.pygame.org/docs/tut/chimp/ChimpLineByLine.html]tutorials[/url] and such and you can get quite a bit done if you're willing to spend the time drawing vector graphics. Most the stuff I've done with this Go Application is stuff I could have done with Pygame, minus the buttons in the upper right which probably would have required a different Python Library but whatever :) Above is a networked program I wrote last fall which lets you play Presidents and Assholes with several clients in a client server model, all the Graphics though are Pygame!

Thanks. I will be bookmarking these sites.