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Thanks! Please do try. It's a custom engine that I wrote myself.  As you can imagine for what I try to do, I don't really have other choice.

Yo world! 

I'm rooster. I'm a software engineer by the day and a ninja gamemaker at night. My specialty is coding games, the kind of games that require players to code. Sounds hard but believe me it's really not; my kiddo can do it. 

As a kid my friends and I had so much fun with Tom Poindexter's little shooting game called "CROBOT" which introduced many of us to a nifty language with a strange name "C".

So a few years ago I decided to create my own reflection of it with Lua as a tribute to this great game. I call my game "Code E.D." I hope you like it as much as I do.

I recently published a 3D coding game that requires the players to write code to solve puzzles. I took it upon myself to make sure that even for someone who's never written a single line of code can still follow and play along. But still wonder if coding game is still a thing these days. Would love your feedback and perspective!

https://jaywee1115.itch.io/code-ed

I used OGRE as the renderer in my game and Bullet Physics for collisions and other physics tasks. I added Lua as my scripting engine and built the rest of the engine to glue them all together. Given how sophisticated popular game engines like Unity or Unreal have become, the idea of building a custom engine seems almost like an unproductive thought, but an issue in my case was that I needed to expose a scripting debugger to my players and none of the known engines can do that. Turns out it was a lot of fun just to work on it. So I would definitely say.. go custom if you value the journey more than the destination.

Code E.D. is a 3D puzzle game where the player must write code to solve the puzzles. The game comes fully equipped with an integrated development environment (IDE) that supports native Lua debugging, auto-complete, quick help and code snippets to name a few. It's designed for people who never coded before with easy-to-follow tutorials as the levels progress. By the end of the game, you would have learned Lua programming basics. And, it's free.

https://jaywee1115.itch.io/code-ed