Russ "Rusko" Butler

About the Developer

I'm Russ, a lifelong tinkerer and self-taught game developer with roots going back to the early days of home computing. My first game was a text adventure written in C64 BASIC in the 1980s that somehow became the talk of a US Air Force base in Italy — nobody could finish it without a leaked solution.

Decades later the itch to make games never went away.

With a Computer Science background and a career in electronics and life safety systems, I bring a technical perspective to game development that goes all the way down to the bit level. These days I'm building browser based JavaScript games for the pure love of it — accessible, fun, and occasionally surprising.

I've been a gamer since the Vic-20 era through EverQuest, World of Warcraft, and currently terrorizing the frontier in Red Dead Redemption 2 on PS5 Pro. That lifelong experience as a player informs everything I build as a developer.

Based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Making games because some habits are worth keeping.