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That sounds awesome! This is the most advanced game I have ever made, so I don’t feel like I have as much experience as you. I’m glad you seem to have liked what I came up with in some way or another!

I feel like designated initialisers can be circumvented by simply assigning the fields individually. It’s a bit more verbose, but I feel like it works almost as well, the biggest downside being that the compiler won’t warn you if you miss some.

Regarding loops and variables, I opted for just declaring all variables at the top of each function definiton (only using an initialiser for ‘static’ variables), which I find almost reminds me of how Python handles variables, except with a chunk of declarations at the start of each function.

Of course, this is all subjective, but I find this style looks neat, and I don’t think it gets in my way at all, personally.

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But what is the actual point of clinging to C89 for a game like this? Do you expect to port it to obscure DSP platforms?

Note: I freaking love C and often defend/advocate it here and elsewhere. I just don't understand why anyone would choose a more limited version. Artistic expression? Something something limitations something creativity?