Gojo is a program that reads in script files and produces visual and audio multimedia based on the contents of the script file. Basically put, it is a LUA script interpretter with SDL bindings.
Gojo aims to make it easy to create cross platform games. By providing bindings to SDL, a portable lowlevel graphics library with abstractions to other parts of OS's, it is easy to make simple games that work on all platforms with minimal optimising to any script files.
Gojo needs 2 things in a script file to do anything useful, these are:
Game attributes in form of
Game.w = 320
Game.h = 240
Game.name = "My Game"
Game.author = "Me!"An on_update function in form of
function on_update(ticks)
endWith these two things you can go on to start creating games.
Probably. Gojo wasn't made to beat any existing projects, but to just offer another choice. If Gojo isn't quite doing it for you, I advise you check out Fenix, or if you're so inclined, PyGame. The advantage of Gojo is it has few (obscure) dependencies, it's portable and easy to port to new systems. The main goals are to run code fast and efficiently and ease of coding games.