He didn't have to. He wanted to.

Which is the same motivation as creator of rust, zig, nim, ruby, perl, python had. They all wanted to make a programming language better at something.

So I don't see anything "hilarious" about it.

Pretty strong comment to make given that you have most likely played 0 minutes of the game and used 0% of the underlying engine and languages.

That being said, it's a free country (sort-of). Go ahead and devote "a few weeks" to build "the same thing". We'll be patient.

If I remember correctly, the game was just a showcase to test the new language. Afaik that's exactly why it's a sokoban clone, because he didn't want to spend time inventing new mechanics.

the game was not the motivation to make the language

Sorry, but no. Just because the graphics have some cartoony stylization does not mean that a lot of thought and effort did not go into them, not to mention lots of work from artists. You absolutely could not recreate something that looks like that with python in a few weeks. Not that the language/engine was strictly necessary to do so either, but you’re way off-base in terms of the level of work and effort required for these things.

> I'm sure it builds fast and whatever, but you could make this in python in few weeks.

Show us how it's done big guy, it's only a few weeks of your time.

> you could make this in python in few weeks

lol

He made Chip's Challenge. He took a decade to make Chip's Challenge.

Or in one of those game engines people like to use.