2D game-making

What's a good language to get started with making a 2D game? I'd like it to be multiplatform, and I only have experience in Java and C. I'm not stupidly brave enough for the latter, nor stupidly stupid enough for the former, so I'm not going to try to make a full game with either of those languages,

I'd prefer a language that has a lot of structure, with semicolons and brackets and whatnot, so C++ seemed like a good choice. However, the multimedia library for it that seems the most supported, SFML, has major issues with certain ATI cards (including my own), and while I've heard that those issues are fixed in the upcoming version, it's still an upcoming version, so other things about it might be buggy and are subject to change.

Is there any system set up that will allow me to make a 2D, sprite-based game without oversimplifying things? I want to work through most of the logic and code myself, but I don't want to write the code for how to read in an image file or something like that.

>>1
just use something.

If you're making a simple 2D game, speed is completely irrelevant, use whatever language you like best. C++, Java, Python, doesn't matter.

>>1
SFML
Stop using hobbyist FLOSS crap. If it ain't industrial strength or academic quality it's crap.

>>1
I'd prefer a language that has a lot of structure, with semicolons and brackets and whatnot
Do people really think like that? Reading that made me feel dirty, as if I saw a redneck talking about spoilers and wheel caps.

accessibility, multiplatform, multimedia
javascript and html5

prefer a language that has a lot of structure, with semicolons and brackets
TYPESCRIPT
not joking

C++
lol!


I may be somewhat biased, but jabbashit is basically the future of your OS. Might as well accept it sooner than later.

flash is also acceptable too

not exactly a language but game maker is a great simple program that makes it easy to start out

love2d

>>6
It's only the future of wangblows. And 8 won't live very long at all.