Andrew Healey • 8/22/2025

Icepath: a 2D Programming Language

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The article details the creation and mechanics of Icepath, a 2D programming language inspired by ice puzzles in Pokémon. It explains how a cursor moves through a grid of opcodes to execute programs, using a stack machine for operations like math and string joining. The author demonstrates core concepts with a 'hello world' example and a more complex program to generate the Fibonacci sequence, explaining the specialized opcodes needed for state management and flow control in this visual paradigm.

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