From: "Florian Groß" <florgro@...>
Date: 2006-04-16T21:01:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Game Programming

Carl Woodward wrote:

> I am writing a small game engine and I wanted to use ruby and sdl but
> I am writing for osx and linux. The problem is that I have only found
> one account on the net on how to get SDL working on osx and its using
> something called RSDL. The download for RSDL isn't available any more.
> I am writing all of the graphics code in c and I wanted to use ruby to
> drive the game.
> 
> Does anyone have any opinions on this approach with respect to speed,
> ease of use, etc or has anyone downloaded the RSDL and can put it up
> on some hosting or email it to me?

Ruby-Gosu is usually faster than SDL (3D-accelerated), does more and is 
easier to use, in my opinion.

It works on OS X, Win32 and Linux (though it has a few dependencies when 
compiling from source).

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