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142 points sclerek | 1 comments | 10 Mar 25 15:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.251s | source

I made an animation programming language that you can type into a textarea. I make little games with it. Now other people can customize the games I make with it.

I've been working on canvas language for 15 years now. Not very successful, but editable gifs turned out okay. Since it's my passion, I keep trying, and my latest is editable games - I'm not officially calling it that though.

I've had some interest in advergames and this would allow designers to easily customize games for their clients - the hidden objects game being the best example for this, and the only one made specifically for the purpose.

Anyways, games are interpreted at runtime by JavaScript. To publish, for example on itch or your own website, you need to submit your project file (download it from the dev studio) and wait a few minutes. You'll get back a JS file that contains your game.

ngl, although a passion project, I'd like this to one day be profitable - trying to work that out.

If interested, the main project site is https://canvaslanguage.com

I'd love to get some feedback. Although to be honest, I just want to show somebody my newest creation :)

Thank you.

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6stringmerc ◴[10 Mar 25 16:53 UTC] No.43322471[source]▶
Not that I’m the person to do it, mind you, but for your own safety and liability purposes I advise caution allowing uploaded images to be used.

As in, it may have the potential for content that you find disturbing, inappropriate, or illegal. Between stories/concepts like NEDM and Rule 34, the potential for misuse, if unregulated, could be exploited by an opportunistic bad actor.

At the bare minimum, use of Copyrighted material could foreseeably result in a view that your project, even at the free stage, is a form of enabling unauthorized derivative works…and result in litigation.

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1. birthdaywizard ◴[10 Mar 25 17:14 UTC] No.43322707[source]▶
I've also read about various image hosting tools, such as apps for creating wallpapers, being overrun by pornography because communities where pornography is banned found it bypassed various automatic censors. If arbitrary image hosting is a subset of your functionality, it can be used as such.