You are very welcome @basilmarples - and thank you for being a part of the commentary action! :c)
I admit that I've been under a post-production rock for a few hours so didn't realize this had taken off so strongly (or your comment for that matter). /:c)
I have updated the post to include links to all the software that I mentioned. The Scratch-like is called Stencyl.
It was straightforward enough that I learnt how to use it when I rather surprisingly went solo for the 2017 Global Game Jam. Its not that I didn't want to team up with others. I went in to that game jam wanting to prove to myself that I can make a digital game.
I am very proud of the clunky mess that is linked to in one of those linked articles. :c) I wouldn't have been able to do it had I not spent some time making a pixel tileset and sprite pre-jam (and used a few other credited resources). ^_^
I personally love randomization and stats and rpg roguelikes (example - I like Gearhear RPG by Joseph Hewitt - even if it invariably kicks my butt (when I don't modify the save file... ;c) ).
Thank you again for the feedback! :c)