From: Peter Thoman <peter.thoman@...>
Date: 2004-07-16T02:53:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Writing games in Ruby?

Tom Copeland wrote:

>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 did the first 2 of that list (with RUDL, which I think is superior to 
PyGame btw.)
Screenshots: http://rudl.sourceforge.net/screenshots/

The Tetris game is included in the RUDL distribution if I remember 
correctly. It's about 500 lines, but that includes the interface, music, 
and all the block types specified as arrays. Oh, and support for up to 8 
(n, basically, but you'd need a huge keyboard...) players and saving and 
loading of all the options.
Note that the code is from a long time ago when I just started using 
Ruby, so it's not really a great example to learn from.

The breakout clone uses OpenGL and has pretty nice graphics and even 
positional stereo sound effects, but has been half-finished for 1 and a 
half years now.

>I just haven't done enough GUI programming in Ruby to know how
>hard it would be, though...
>  
>
It can't be that hard if I could do it 2 years ago ;)

Seriously, RUDL is IMHO very usable and has a well-designed and 
extremely Ruby-like interface, the only thing missing are the games! 
(and more work on the Linux side it seems, but I don't know much about that)

HTH,
- Peter