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@russmatney.bsky.social
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Making games in Godot! Dot Hop (simple grid puzzles) and Dino (scope-creeping proc-gen metroidvania mess), and lots of prototypes on itch/github.

Links to everything on carrd: https://russmatney.carrd.co/

Portfolio/Devlogs/blog: https://russmatney.com
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Toyed with log\.gd bg colors and an old fave color palette (a modified "coldfire") on the plane yesterday - excited to get this nested color-cycling even more readable

#Godot #GodotEngine
Screenshot showing Log.gd output with nested dictionaries and string values. `Log.prn` and `Log.pr` show the dictionaries split over newlines and jammed into one line.
August 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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New version of Log\.gd today! Now you can bring your own color theme w/ a `LogColorTheme` custom resource!

I'm very happy to no longer be hard-coding colors in the code.

The rainbow delimiters now sync with the brackets - I think I like it?

github.com/russmatney/l...

#Godot #GodotEngine
A screenshot of nested dictionaries in godot - they layers of nesting use different colors on the dict keys - red, blue, then orange. Screenshot of the Godot Project Settings for Log.gd. The `Color Resource Path` is overwritten to specify a CustomLogColorTheme.tres in the user's project files (as opposed to the plugin's). Godot's Inspector view showing a `LogColorTheme` - a list of 20+ colors for many godot types and other color situations, including src/addons/test prefixes, punctuation, rainbow delimiters, and more.
August 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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ahhhhh that makes sense ty!

Related, I found this cheatsheet in the docs: raw.githubusercontent.com/godotengine/...

I thought I might need the reverse mapping (Color to nice-name) for a Log\.gd feature today, but `Color.to_html(false)` was enough b/c bbcode supports [color=hex] tags.
August 1, 2025 at 10:20 PM
russmatney.bsky.social
Toying with Log\.gd color themes today!

DID YOU KNOW? You can type Godot's fancy color names directly into the inspector's color picker's Hex field?

b/c i didn't.

#Godot #GodotEngine
August 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
russmatney.bsky.social
I didn't realize that gif was 75mb (!!) so here's a 5x-ed mp4 version (only 8mb now).
July 31, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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I wrote another Dot Hop devlog this week! Plus edited down a clip of this puzzle-stacking bug I ran into.

russmatney.com#/devlogs/202...

#DotHop #Godot #GodotEngine #SoloDev #DevLog
Some clips of Dot Hop's new puzzle viewer - as the puzzles are added, they are not removed, leading to a heavy stacking of colorful dots, hoppers, and particles floating above them.
July 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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I'm adding rainbow delimiters to Log\.gd's brackets today, and decided to cycle colors on nested dictionary keys as well - looking pretty good!

(plz ignore the `[/color]` noise, that's an engine bug already fixed in `4.5`)

#GodotEngine #Godot #GodotAddon
Screenshot of output from a Log.prn function call. Here we're printing a dictionary full of nested data. The data is colored based on type and level of nesting (within an array or dictionary).
July 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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lmao at how unreadable this is, on top of being the most difficult puzzle in the game right now

this one was generated to be hard, which his why it's in the 'extras' section... tho i'm not sure who i'm protecting.... i guess, wandering grid-puzzle nerd-snipes?

#ScreenshotSaturday #GameDev
A puzzle too large to be in the regular game - Dot Hop's next release will include this shape, tho i'm not sure about the theming. A grid of pixel-art dots - sandcastles, snowmen, pumpkins, a beach ball, and some abstract blue dots. The player is a beach-ball near the center, and the final dot is the lighter-green bush with red roses. (overall, pretty unreadable)
July 20, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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i made a randomized 'all the dots' theme and threw in my 'extras' puzzle (some experimental puzzles) - made me lol to see the themes jammed together.

nice to finally have things running again after a big refactor the last two days!

#GodotEngine #PuzzleGame #DotHop #GameDev
The AllTheDots.tres - A base scene, lists of player/dot/goal scenes to grab randomly from, and some icons for the menus. The AllTheDots theme pulls random dots from other themes... so i think they're all gonna look crazy like this. Kind of crazy but it's inspiring some ideas!
July 20, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Some Dot Hop progress! A rough POC for emphasizing possible-next-moves. The real work here was refactoring the game logic to support 'checking' if a move was possible without actually making the move - some fun decoupling.

Next up, the never-ending tweaking and re-art-ing.
July 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
russmatney.bsky.social
I really wanna get back to it! Here's a (buggy) clip from (checks notes) August 2023?! 😭
June 3, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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yes! one of my dream features is toggling logs on/off by source-file or node, maybe by populating buttons in the output panel? We already have these performing somewhat similar functionality for info/err/warn.

Clicking on the logs themselves to expand collapse dicts/arrays would be super-sweet.
Screenshot from Godot's Output panel showing some buttons - each fires some command that affect the logs displayed.
May 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Showing a little color, plus some dictionary/array newline handling via `Log.prn` instead of `Log.pr`.
A gdscript file on top with 5 print statements: `print`, `prints`, `printt`, `Log.pr`, and `Log.prn`. Each prints 5 arguments, the last of which is an array with a dictionary of example values. Below, Godot's output buffer shows a line for each statement. The bottom two are colored and include prefixes like `ExampleScene:112` to show the call-site's file and line number. The last print uses multiple lines to make the array and dictionary nesting more readable at a glance.
May 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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A #devlog from last month, tracking adding a new mechanic to a #metroidvania: russmatney.com#/devlogs/202...
Screenshot from a video clip included in the linked devlog. A pixel-art platformer room - the tiles are stained-glass squares, and a tiny little robo player glows in the bottom right corner.
January 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Here's one with a bunch of mind-garden visualization screenshots: russmatney.com#/devlogs/202...

Not much context, and I'm not sure what to do with it yet - I have 5 years of brain-dumping into org-roam to wrestle with...

#mindgarden #secondbrain #orgroam #visualization #devlog
Org-roam-ui visualization of my mind garden. A huge cluster of colorful nodes - large orange dots at the center and more spacious red dots on the outside, connected by gray links. Too many nodes to deal with!
January 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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I finally released my first game on Steam! Check out Dot Hop today!

store.steampowered.com/news/app/277...

If you like challenging puzzles, I think you'll find these satisfying.
Dot Hop's Space theme: a UFO moving among asteroids Dot Hop's Spring theme: a purple blob moving among flowered bushes Dot Hop's Winter theme: a snowy head moves among other snowpeople
March 1, 2024 at 6:03 PM
russmatney.bsky.social
Love this prove-you-are-human test when signing up at www.lexaloffle.com

Please collect all the coins!
Screenshot from the lexaloffle.com signup flow: To prove you are human, please collect all coins. A small bird in a grass field full of coins, pixel art (a pico-8 game).
October 26, 2023 at 2:20 PM
russmatney.bsky.social
Hacking on dino and PluggsMcGee - regen those rooms! loving this proc-gen stuff lately.

The victory here is last-room's floor tile aligning with next-room's.
Screenshot of the Godot Editor - two rectangular rooms show on the left, and on the right, clicking Run Gen clears and creates two more of random shapes. This would have been a gif (and in fact it is on mastodon), but bsky doesn't seem to support them?
October 24, 2023 at 11:37 PM