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Porting my JavaScript game engine to C for no reason

high_impact tl;dr: high_impact is small game engine for 2D action games. It's written in C, compiles to Windows, Mac and Linux as well as to WASM for the Web.

It was invented and implemented by Apple/Safari (with no standards procedure) for the purpose of rendering desktop widgets: Weather forecasts, calendars, stock tickers and other mildly useful fluff. I felt I had succeeded when famous Apple aficionado John Gruber published a two-sentence piece about the game with the purpose (as I perceived it) to redeem Steve Job's decision. At the beginning of the hunk, growing upwards, is a bump allocator (also known as an “arena”) that holds all assets and other data needed for the game, entities and the current scene.

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