From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2004-07-16T04:18:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Writing games in Ruby?

On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 13:53, Peter Thoman wrote:
> 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.

I got Rudl 0.7.1 to compile, but regrettably urlaubtris segfaulted when
I gave it a whirl.  The same thing happened on about half the samples,
though, so perhaps my setup is not good (Ruby 1.8.1, SDL 1.2.7).

> 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.

Nifty, which file is that - is it in the samples/ directory?

> 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)

Yup, it looks good, and there's a fair bit of recent activity on the
forums, which is nice!

Yours,

Tom