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Decker looks lovely. Can you speak more about how you create the wonderful HyperCard theme? Did you create your own graphical toolkit to match the Hypercard theme and draw everything yourself with that toolkit?

And is this available as a desktop too? or is it web only?

Everything in web-decker is drawn to a canvas using a custom software-rendered imgui-style UI toolkit. I considered this approach essential for maintaining fidelity across platforms and implementations, but it does come with notable accessibility and performance tradeoffs.

There is a native version of Decker implemented in C using SDL2. It's fairly easy to build from source for Linux[0], and I offer periodic Windows and MacOS builds on itch.io[1].

[0] https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Decker#building

[1] https://internet-janitor.itch.io/decker

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