HopDodge

Released: Aug 30, 2023
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Last updated: 13 Sep 2026, 20:38 GMT

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20 posts

23 Jul 2026Developer post
3.04
Fixed a bug with Ice Fixed some render issues Updated the Play button to make it more clear when it is selected.
08 Oct 2025Developer post
3.03
Just what the subtitle says. Opdo was crashing on multiplayer interaction due to a small bug. The lobby browser is updated to be better looking.
19 Jun 2025Developer post
3.02
basically just fixed an issue with GUI scaling and selecting objects in the editor. updated checkblock to use goal level entry made a sign in hell easier to read.
16 Jun 2025Developer post
3.01
added movelock to settings. 1 move in each direction for hop. may add dodge movelock if requested.
08 Jun 2025Developer post
HopDodge 3.0
HOPDODGE 3.0 Changelog New Item: Shield. New Boss: OpDo I think this one is better left a mystery. There's will be a lot of new stuff to do. But it's all old. Most people haven't even completed the game. But I have faith that new players will find this update refreshing. I have h
23 Oct 2024Developer post
2.9
New song New background Fixed goggles moon jump bug.
07 Oct 2024Developer post
2.81
Fixed a crashing bug with multiplayer ghosts.
29 Sep 2024Developer post
2.8
Alright let me be real here. It's been a long 4 months since the last update And sorry for that. There were a couple(?) beta build updates but like until now there were a lot of weird bugs and optimizations that were in the works. And now the weird bugs are all gone for new optim
Alright let me be real here.
It's been a long 4 months since the last update
And sorry for that.
There were a couple(?) beta build updates but like
until now there were a lot of weird bugs and optimizations that were in the works.
And now the weird bugs are all gone for new optimizations.
Among those updates:

Static sprites are batched now to reduce vertex batch breaks. This is something that was a lot harder to do than adding a new feature, but instead of doing that I reduced the frame lag on 9999 instances of coins from 12fps to 60. So that's exciting to me for no reason since I will never make a level where there are 9999 coins.
Greedy meshing on the level previews. the level models all get generated in game time and can range from 10-6000Kb and this way of meshing blocks with a shared face in growing segments reduces the vertex counts by around 50%. This is all nerd stuff so don't worry about it guys.
Wave form visualizer for the MicNotes Just something to make recording feel a little more reactive. It's not the exact right way to show a waveform, but it definitely reacts to sound coming through the mic.
Goblins are more optimal now This was because of a weird thing where someone had hundreds of goblins in the floor. as a benefit they are faster now.
Level Updates I changed the backgrounds on some of the story levels. IDK something to look at while we work on the next story updates.
the spider gets stronger
Anyway there's not a lot to report these optimizations took a long time because writing complex algorithms to manage vertex buffers in GML is something not a lot of people do so it's dumb and arcane and you have to be able to sit there staring at an alarm that has 755 lines in it and you're still not done even after you get 4 sides done but you don't want to have to remember the neighbor vector math for all the stupid faces but you suck it up and get it done because you saw a comment from the day you wrote the inside block face culling for the particle maker and you see it says "be super happy now that you know greedy meshing. Then don't fix the voxels for 3 months. ;0;" and you don't know how or why but you realize that you wrote that comment 3 months ago and it's time to start doing the greedy meshing and then it doesn't work 30 or 40x but eventually it's generating big colored panels instead of tons of smaller squares that are lame and we don't want.
Anyway next is greedy meshing the blocks in the level but I am really not excited for that.
You have to understand that the particle makers are just white textured colored planes and that the ability to greedy mesh them once in the course of the first time its loaded then caching that data is what makes it possible to greedy mesh.
For the rest of the blocks there's a lot more to consider.
For example. when a block is placed and destroyed. How does it figure out how to update the mesh. It needs to delete the face, then add every block associated with that face back to the queue and update the function to take into account the VB ticket for each face of each block.
And then it needs to work with tiling on an atlus which I'm sure is possible but it may require updating the shader, which is really tough to navigate in GML, but whatever it's worth doing to make things faster for this game no one plays.
The billboard and planes batching also took a lot of bugfixes and shader updates. I had to ensure that they would still render normally with shadows off. And there were a lot of instances where I needed to add extra logic to ensure sprites would update when the object was moved (by deleting the mesh and remaking it whenever a variable affecting it is updated).
Anyway none of this matters to you, HopDodger. All you gotta do is start making some levels. You know you want to, don't you?
I want you to. I want to play some more levels in this game. this game is actually awesome and I love it. Thanks good night.
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01 Jun 2024Developer post
2.7
GUYS THERE'S HATS NOW????!?!??!? Check out the settings Also TONS of new bugfixes
17 Apr 2024Developer post
2.64
Should fix silent crash, pong and pong3D in the menu, and a few other minor things. Let me know if it still has silent crashing. Actually. Please. Literally if you crash to desktop with no error, just like drop a comment on this post. Feedback critical and all that. Thanks!
15 Apr 2024Developer post
2.62
New Menu, some other fixes
03 Apr 2024Developer post
2.61
steamworks update
02 Apr 2024Developer post
2.6 Hot Dog!
-added Hot Dog to play as hot dog load up the 1dog level 1 note: there is only 1 hot dog level Also some fixes for editor stuff and switch arrows/regular arrows are now switched for zup and zdown. (minor change no need to panic.) uh and yeah I guess that's about all of it let me
27 Mar 2024Developer post
2.59
This is a small patch with a few small fixes. Escape now works on all popups in editor for closing them. Fullscreen now no longer breaks textboxes.
05 Mar 2024Developer post
2.58
MicNotes no longer crash in multiplayer (tested host to peer only so let me know if they need a second pass) but anyway this should let people communicate in the levels with voice notes. Level Updates: Tutorial and Volcano reworked. Editor QOL: Now when loading into a level, the
01 Mar 2024Developer post
2.56
HopDodge buffs -4 new songs from new artist TheLine -MicNotes may work over network -Fixed some bugs and crashes Hopdodge nerfs -There's a spider somewhere -MicNotes may crash over network
05 Feb 2024Developer post
2.5 We're back, baby
This update fixes a few bugs but also adds a new level of optimization to the voxel system. Enjoy much faster copy, pasting, and voxel counts well into the 10s of thousands without having the client lag. In addition there's now a new interface for the MicNotes that should make se
03 Jan 2024Developer post
2.4
Welcome to patch 2.4 everyone. It's got some new featuers. EDITOR: Pressing T will change the plane that you edit on from Z to Y to X to Z. The plane that you rotate to is based off where your mouse is hovering. New Mic Notes allow you to record microphone input into levels as an
05 Dec 2023Developer post
Level Contest Final Hours
Last Day for the Level Contest Get your submissions in by the of day tuesday and I will pick the winner based on the best submission. Laters Go to workshop -> share a level then fill in the boxes and such.
29 Nov 2023Developer post
Show me what you got: Level Contest $$$
Make a level and post it in the next week and I'll give whoever makes the best one 30 bucks.

Updates & announcements

HOPDODGE 3.0 Changelog

New Item: Shield. New Boss: OpDo