Revisiting the UX for creating the programs; fixed some bugs, but I still have more problems: Auto stepping eases programming, but one thing I dislike is, that when I steer the bot over the map edge, I don't see that happening. Which would be fun :D
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Snow imprints start to work for multiple active levels ☃️
This is nothing I ever intended to support when writing the code - though the architecture design itself is flexible to handle this quite fine.

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The level selection preview shows now the level being played back with the last program the player worked out. Since the level and gameplay data are just structs of a few thousand bytes and all assets are preloaded, selecting levels is perfectly fluid 😊

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Roughly how I imagined it; the level is previewed before selecting it for playing. However, the snow and particle system is unlikely to play along with this, since these systems use global resources. But I think I can manage to handle this. FPS is nicely stable :)
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I started a set of 2nd campaign levels and added a campaign selection popup and ... it pretty much worked instantly on first compile 😶 *stare of disbelieve*
At least some things work straight out of the box 🥳

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I have to start making more levels. I guess I need 200 to 300 for the final version? I have now ... *checks notes* ... 15.
Oh well. "Only" need to follow Confucius' "The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." quote, I guess 🙃
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Not sure about this idea: Clouds flowing around the level. There could be different types of such backgrounds... at lest I was thinking so. I am not really happy with how it looks atm and it would need a lot more work to look the way I imagined it 🥲
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Adding more language options: Since my UI rendering is mostly stateless, changing languages will take instant effect in nearly all situations. I also have a hotkey to toggle through the translations so I can quickly test potential layout issues with long texts quickly.

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Luckily fixable in the snow placement shader: Only consider cleared area information when the area is at ground level. Though, if necessary, I could encode the clear height level in the imprint texture. But I don't intend to have bots moving on different height levels.

Annoying: When clearing snow on the ground, it clears snow above the ground, too.

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