From: Shashank Date <sdate@...>
Date: 2004-11-22T23:28:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and the XBox

Hi,

Francis Hwang wrote:

> I just bought "Freedom Force", a silly-but-fun superheroes pseudo-RPG.  
> A lot of the files are in Python. Also, I have read online that Quake  
> is written in two layers: the bare-to-the-metal stuff, which is C++,  
> and the game logic, which is in a higher level language that I believe  
> was custom-developed for the engine. This is standard  
> alternate-hard-and-soft-layers stuff, I suppose.
> 
> If you wanted to push Ruby into the world of gaming, I'd guess that the  
> first place to do so would be on the desktop, probably on a Windows  
> box. On a desktop machine, the overhead of the Ruby standard install  
> wouldn't be so heavy.
> 
> BTW, at RubyConf Shashank showed me the very basics of a game  
> construction set that is aimed at writing board-type games ... It'd be  
> a good place to start thinking about the high-level domain specific  
> language that might be suited to games. If Shashank releases it any  
> time soon (hint, hint).

Hint taken :-)

It was one of those things which started off as a sudden brain wave 
while waiting at the airport on way to the conference and died down
when I got back into the daily rut of life ...

But the code is not utterly ugly and with a little bit of clean up,
will be release worthy. Watch out for this space.

Thanks,
-- Shashank