I finally decided to hang up a shingle on itch.io. My first app there is not a game. Lua Carousel is a lightweight environment for writing small, throwaway Lua and LÖVE programs. With many thanks to Mike Stein who helped me figure out how to get it working on iOS, this is my first truly cross-platform app, working on Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android.

repo

Carousel has its own devlog/notebook. I try to post little scripts that are easy for someone to copy to their clipboard, paste into Carousel and run. Some examples:

• Hilbert curve and Lindenmayer tree fractal (70 lines each)
• rectangle art (40 lines)
• simple example using the physics engine. (100 lines)
• Chromacline: a war between colors in Game of Life world (100 lines)
• simple UI examples; simple voice recorder (<50 lines each)
• sprite editor (100 lines)
• Pong wars (70 lines)
• equation plotting over an infinite surface with pan and pinch-zoom (150 lines)
• Lots of different kinds of charts (200 lines)

Comments gratefully appreciated. Please send them to me by any method of your choice and I'll include them here.