The Hot Honey Loop Language aims to highlight the 'hot path' of a programs execution as well as its changing values, which is displayed in the background of the game.

This is mainly done by converting source code written in the custom programming language into nodes and connections format. This allows simple running of the code by following the connections but also allows the ability to track the hot path and any variables used.

This allows games that really have lots of variables, perhaps like Tetris, to show off their inner complexity. However, I decided to quickly make Pong for this but it was a slight mistake as the game is primarily physics-based which surprisingly does not branch it’s hot path or update variables often… whoops

The entire project and language was implemented in GameMaker! This was a more rogue decision teetered towards the very simplistic rendering methods GameMaker gives :) 

The language’s syntax itself is very similar to C’s struct and functions, however the major difference is that this language operates through integers and functions instead! (and floats, but that was an unintentional side effect of GameMaker…) This was originally out of simplicity but it means that boolean expressions are done through math!

Parsing this language into a node + connection format was quite a challenge! However, as shown in the image here, it on it's own creates an interesting view of a source file and it's structure!

The language itself has its quirks, such as: all code being interpreted as one line so and ignoring any whitespace, as well as some stranger edge cases, such as with the draw functions:

draw rect(x|y|w|h);

where 'draw rect' is a single keyword!

Originally I decided to layout the whole code as a single circle, however it became more apparent later that breaking down code becomes way too dense to display in a single circle.

Game

• [W|S] - Left Paddle
• [I|K] - Right Paddle

Extras

• [Tab] - Graph View
  
• [+|-] - Graph Unravel