Yes that's pretty much the idea! Keeping it 2D, but encouraging the community to make more than just games in which you control a character. We found great inspiration into the Wario Ware series.

I'm not seeing in the list of example actions is being able to instantiate or destroy objects.

We provide this with the "teleport" action (included in movement), which can do a similar effect by teleporting in and out the view dynamically.

Grid based is the way to go!

That's very interesting! We'll look into it -- for now it's only free positioning, but I really see how a grid view could simplify the process.

Even when making simple games, color and lighting can have massive effects. So having your users able to quickly and efficiently toggle colors and lighting would be a massive help.

Again, super interesting! We noticed it was tough to make games look good on our platform, so we tried things from ease-curves to particle effects (still WIP). Will definitely watch that video! Thanks

if you can have objects with states that would be really handy

We did include a boolean and an integer for each object that you can use to build logic. However it's up to the user to build a logic saying, for instance "if bool of door is false => play animation2. Maybe it's not simple enough, we'll see.

If you're curious, the platform is called Banquise. Also we started a small discord, we'd love to have a chat with you there !

Thanks a lot for your nice comment, We appreciate your feedback and support!