I getting big "this is fine" energy from these people.

I can also hear all those weather effects ❤️

At a glance I thought this was the forest floor.

Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

What next? I don't know, but I seem to have parked in C++/SDL/Lua for a serious game project, so I'll be here for a while.

C++ has been a *nightmare* ahaha, but I think I'm getting the feel for how to use pointers and vectors and such in ways that don't break in amazingly cryptic ways. Raylib and SDL do a fine job I think. And Lua integration is *really nice* for making game changes without having to recompile.

I felt like I was hitting the performance limits of gdscript in Godot, with the fancy things I like to do. If I had more time, I would have probably tried out the C# version of Godot, or even wrote some C++ extensions for myself.

rust was great to learn and has improved the way I code in other languages, but it felt like it added excessive time and complexity to my game development, especially with the issues I experienced with every game or similar framework I tried in rust.

Monogame was very comfy to build my own game base in, and C# is pretty comfy too. But my pilgrimage was kicked off by wanting a good web export option, which Monogame lacked.

My pilgrimage: Javascript (pixi.js), C# (Monogame), rust (Bevy and others), gdscript (Godot Engine), C++ (raylib or SDL with Lua integration).

Sol feels like wild magic. It can do amazing things, but I have no idea how it works and sometimes it bites me.

Wow that compressed quite painfully on upload.