Hi there, I'm Russ!

Independent software engineer making games, mostly in Godot

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Welcome to my portfolio and devlogs site, AKA BLOG REFACTOR #74!

Hopefully this one sticks!

A project I was a part of this Summer/Fall wrapped up this month: Zohran’s Run released on Steam on November 3rd, just in time for the NYC Mayoral election.

At the end of September, I started in a new role (Director of Games Engineering) at Merriam-Webster/Encyclopedia Britannica! Check out our latest games, Reunion and Revealed.

My Godot Con Boston talk is finally on youtube! Check it out to see a bit of what Log.gd has to offer!

A small Log.gd release on Friday broke the hard-coded colors out into custom-resources. Now you can create your own LogColorTheme, or just point to the included light or dark one in your project settings.

• Log.gd v0.0.9 Release notes

I cranked on Dot Hop for most of July, ultimately releasing a 1.2 version at the end of the month to all-the-places (Steam, Itch, Android, iOS, and soon Github and Flathub).

Some relevant new posts:

• Steam 1.0 -> 1.2 Release Notes
• Itch 1.0 -> 1.2 Release Notes
• Dot Hop’s All The Places Docs Page
• Dot Hop Rearchitecting Devlog
• Dot Hop Speedrun/Spoilers/Stats Devlog

More coming soon on the Dot Hop docs site.

In the mid 2010s I wrote a bunch of poem-y things on Medium. They’ve since added a paywall, which is very :eyeroll: so I’ve ported them into the ‘Hundos’ section of the blog. Check ‘em out!

• drawing-a-crowd
• straight-up-oj
• would-it-bother-you
• dont-die-pizza
• how-to-fall-asleep
• ill-tell-you
• sometimes
• the-frustrating-moment
• first-thing-this-morning
• in-the-skywaves
• its-for-suckers
• great-owl-circle
• heres-the-thing-cat
• everyone-accept-death
• the-last-place-you-look
• nobodyd-notice
• how-to-write-a-poem

There’s also a very technical post about Haskell’s Lens library:

• haskell-lens-operator-onboarding

I just got back from Godot Con, and it was amazing!! So glad there was finally one closer to me! So many indie devs and indie games to parse!

I wrote a Techsposure post covering most of my interactions here: Post: Boston Godot Con

At Godot Con, I gave a lightning talk about Log.gd. Updates, posts, and a YouTube link to come soon!

Check out my new Dev Logs section for updates on my projects and meanderings.

• DevLog: Zooming In On Dino
• DevLog: Glossolalia Listen Prototyping #glossolalia

I’ve resurrected a bunch of old content, including my 100 word stories, which I like to call ‘Hundos’.

Some ‘new’ “Hundos” (~2025)!

• Writing Hundos Again
• Eventually It’s A Game

Some Old Ones (~2012):

• New Clear Warfare
• Full 4-minute relationship
• Loosing our Minds
• First-Person vs Third-Person

Yee Olde Scribblings

Section titled “Yee Olde Scribblings”

You can find my older (and slowly, some newer) blog posts here.

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• A new version of Carving With Care (a game by Gelatinous Cat Games) shipped in early April. Check it out!

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I released three steam games in 2024, be sure to check em out!

• Dot Hop is a grid-based puzzle game - it’s simple but challenging! github | steam | itch.io
• Dino is a mashup of last year’s jam entries - right now it’s procedurally generated platformer rooms. github | steam | itch.io
• Rapid Eye Madness is a microgame eldritch-horror fest created with The Moonstorm Clerics. itch.io | steam

Check out my games portfolio or my itch.io for more.