Greetings from Koh Phangan 🇹🇭 and the Matrix Workation.

It’s been a busy two weeks so far, with one left to go before heading back home. As part of the workcation, we’ve been working on various Matrix-related side projects.

One of mine being Godot Matrix RTC, which initially started with looking at @toger5’s Keyboard Kart aka FloorIt Ipsum game.

Initially the plan was just to update the Godot project to bring the join() and leave() logic into the Godot application itself - instead of as html overlay elements.

I then planned to create a Pong-variant with an arena of n + 1 sides, where n is the number of members in the RTC session. However I ended up adjusting *FloorIt Ipsum’s** Game / UI to suit any orientation and sizing.

With that done, it kinda felt like the bones were there to make making more Godot Matrix RTC games easier by creating an add-on that handled all this for you - with a sample project to show potential UI setup.

So the plan for godot-matrix-rtc-pong was dropped and today I finished up the work for the godot-matrix-rtc plugin! 🎉

By the end, the original bridge code has been statically typed, generalised, documented and more. The plugin merges in the required export template, CI does all the Element Call SDK dist building for you while a Godot EditorExportPlugin handles putting it in the right place.

It’s hard to know when to “stop”, but if I didn’t spend time polishing it now, it probably would never have been finished. Though I still think it’d be cool to add a lobby of joined members, and who knows what else!

So despite never really writing all that much, I figured I’d dust off (and bug fix!) this domains’ site generation and put it up - to mark a completed project.

Special thanks goes to: