I want something that's: 1. easy-to-create (in-engine+GUI particularly) 2. High-fidelity (scalable+not-resolution-dependent) 3. Low-data
Interactivity/dynamic stuff (also good aesthetic) is a good bonus. Godot4 has all that (though some of the editors+features could be better) but again, no Nim bindings just quite yet.

I am not too good with Inkscape (compare my avatar--a quick attempt to mimic polygonal style--to the animated eye example) but the problem with SVG is that in most context it's rasterized (so a lot more limits and considerations). If there was a tilemap system that live-rendered SVGs, that'd be perfect.

I'm not chained to 2D, just simpler and thought it might be better to learn (and I do like polygon aesthetic). Not too versed with Blender either*, though I have thought about going that route (simple untextured models) or maybe even a different model program. Same for 2D via 3D models (planes) imported into a 2D engine (Godot allows that, but then you're losing the benefits of in-engine polygons like animation etc). Godot also has a gridmap and decent+easy visual options (materials+lighting+SDFGI) that could help out with (mostly) textureless models. Though in fairness, I haven't really looked at Raylib's 3D capability/options yet.

To be clear, when I said 'something else' I was wondering about other frameworks such as SFML or SDL etc (on Linux) and their (higher-level) polygon capability. OpenGL is way beyond me.

Other frameworks particularly because what I've made isn't actually specific to Raylib. I could put it in its own file and import+call it, so long as whatever else it is used in will accept a sequence (of vector2 values).

I might be able to make an editor, too (at least one that functions within the constraints of my format), or at very least a library viewer**. Though I still haven't made anything game-like yet (admittedly this format is a very similar concept to the gamebook format I mentioned, but a lot simpler "content") so that puts it in perspective.

*= have made a few models with it, though disliked the issues with modifiers and often preferred the Maya setup where everything was nodes (not that I can afford Maya, not used it in 10+ years)

**= like 8 polygons on-screen and you choose what it's loaded as, and a step up from that would be a tile-map

Hey, small update I did end up trying a 3D style with vertex colors (no textures needed).

Office plant, right is decimated (only somewhat)
(I have uploaded 2 other images as threads so far, banana+peel and a scene with cartoonish UFOs and a badger+mushroom... also my new avatar)

I tried it with Naylib but vertex colors don't render properly. It seems to me like there may have been a Raylib regression unless there's something wrong or something I need to add to my own code. And that's using OBJ.

Godot 3.X could work, but there doesn't seem to be a way of importing that gives everything a common material aside from manually assigning them to every instance (unless there's a trick, perhaps mesh library that works without a gridmap, that I'm missing). Though I suspect multiple materials (say if I wanted matte+metal+glass) in one object that might be more difficult to have happen on import. With Naylib I should be able to export models without a material at all, at the very least.

EDIT: Also if this doesn't interest you (though it seems like it's right in-line w/OpenGL) a small thing to add is that it's neat how Kbin shows the other threads w/the same title as a crosspost. I'm not sure if I noticed it before, but it really works here.