From: Michael Fivis <michael.fivis@...>
Date: 2004-07-15T23:14:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Writing games in Ruby?

Lets start it up then. Could easily grab an edge over something like
PyGame (which is slowly falling out of date -- its a very inactive
project)

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 22:51:53 +0900, Tom Copeland <tom@infoether.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 04:47, Innocence wrote:
> > Hey
> >
> > I'd been messing around with Python for a few weeks when I came upon
> > Ruby. Personally I much prefer the Ruby syntax (especially the OO
> > consistency and not not using indents to define blocks). Unfortunately
> > however, it seems that the Ruby community lacks a stable, easy-to-use
> > game-module like PyGame - at least I haven't been able to find one (ok
> > so I found RUDL, but it hasn't been updated for years and it seems to
> > be buggy).
> >
> > I mean, is there any language specific reason why Ruby couldn't be
> > used for writing games the way Python is (ie. we're not talking 3D
> > action games, but smaller strategy and arcade games)? Is the Ruby
> > garbage collector bad/slow, is the interpreter much slower or is
> > something else wrong? Or is it simply a question of time until someone
> > writes a multimedia plugin to handle sprites, buffered screens, audio
> > and the like?
> 
> I've wondered about that too.  It'd be nifty to have a little collection
> of old-school arcade games in Ruby - Tetris, Breakout, Space Invaders,
> etc.  I just haven't done enough GUI programming in Ruby to know how
> hard it would be, though...
> 
> Yours,
> 
> Tom
> 
> 


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