Went to class, understood everything that was going on.
Focus of the class is to do small scale prototypes to show basic gameplay functionality, using whatever engine we feel like, and we get to work in small teams. I chose a friend of mine who's pretty good at coming up with the art, and I'm working on trying to code something so it'll work.
This is all well and good. I start looking at tutorials... and then this:
http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2011/4/7/8f06790d-0337-4c36-927a-86305a0d9fa7.jpg