A friend of mine has and intends on making something out of it and asked me for help i downloaded the trial and it was off my machine quicker then you can say "omg this is gay". I don't know how it would see to a non programmer but i have experience with VB/Object Pascal and c++ and id honestly rather do it one of those.
Have you thought about trying gamemaker? it's mainly for 2d games but 3d is quite possible with the new version 6 and alot of things can be done through a simply gui or done in it's little scripting language.
P.S If you do try gamemaker and seek help for w/e on the forums when people say Read The Manual tell em to shut their hole and start calling it a helpfile i do..........