I don't think I'm allowed to say this but I almost kind of like making game UIs!

Making such "hexel art" is probably similar to making traditional pixel art in terms of techniques and approaches (can only guess, never done it before), except the only tool I have is the in-game editor I had to make myself.

A a side effect of these new mechanics is that they allow creating more difficult puzzles that are still small in size, which I really like. In classic picross / nonograms the puzzles usually have to be quite large to be challenging.

Seriously though, I want to give Godot Engine a try, at least to broaden my knowledge of game development engines. Last year I spent some time with Unreal Engine and it wasn't that bad, although in the end I felt its learning curve is too steep.

To give an example, there are many ways the game can accept input: mouse-only (not using GUI buttons); single-button mouse + GUI buttons; mouse + keyboard shortcuts; keyboard only; gamepads; I'm even considering adding drawing tablet support.

One of my goals for this game is to make it as accessible as I can, including support for various control schemes, configurable assist options, color schemes and so on.