Show HN Post: Hobby 2D Game Engine With Custom Scripting Language
This entry is a Show HN project showcase for a personally built 2D game engine, IDE, and custom scripting language, explicitly described by its author as a for-fun learning project with no business goal, not a user-reported problem.
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