I make things I like to pay. I like games that involve simple recursive systems with simple rules that produce complex results. Sometimes I'll be reading a book (fiction or non-fiction) and that seems to be the source of most of my ideas. recently became interested in markets and financial systems.

you could look at imgui and nuklear. they're both good.

if you just want a list of buttons to click or select from you could draw some rectangles and check moue coordinates on left-mouse release in the appropriate callback function.

stress testing and converting shaders - I'm new to Love very impressed with it. no odd side-effects: everything seems to do what it says it does. I like that custom shaders are mostly straight, unmolested GLSL. I understand why top-left = 0,0 for libs like Love but I'm so used to opengl normalized c...