Welcome!:a:

Hi there, I'm Russ!

I'm an indie game dev working on on two games:

  • Dot Hop ( garden, steam, github ) is a grid-based puzzle game - it's simple but challenging, and hopefully not too hard.
  • Dino ( garden, steam, github ) is a mashup of last year's jam entries - platformers, some top-down, some beat em up, some overcooked?! I'm molding it into.... something... and launching in Q1!

I resolved to publish 50 video devlogs on youtube this year - subscribe and wish me luck!

I to stream live-coding on Twitch, and I maintain a Discord if you wanna chat.

I post daily works-in-progress on mastodon, and once or twice a month on patreon.

You can find my game-jam games at russmatney.itch.io.

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I make open-source 2D games using Godot, Aseprite, and Emacs, and I build dev-tools using Clojure.

I owe so much thanks to my patrons, who encourage me to keep going as I'm trying to make this full-time open-source game dev dream work.

You can support me on patreon or github.

> What's this?:a:

This site is my Mind Garden / Second Brain. It's part working notes, part devlog, part random musings, part link/list curation, and some actual blog posts.

It's an exported org-mode directory, built with Clojure (as part of Clawe ).

  • orange links are external
  • green links are to other _published_ garden notes
  • red links are to not-yet _published_ garden notes

Many/most of the notes are rough and empty/draft-y - I expect over years things will fill in and get a bit cozier.

I'm working on better ways to present these notes, and am not quite satisfied with the flow yet - let me know if you have any feedback or ideas!

> Updates:a:

>> November 2023:a:

I spent the last year doing game jams in the same repo ( Dino ). Now I'm gutting and refactoring that repo into a single game, which finally has a Steam page!

If you are interested in beta testing, ping me! I have steam codes to share and CI in place, and I want to cultivate a strong feedback loop with interested folks.