From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2006-07-03T14:29:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby interface to Kyra sprite engine

From: "Stephen Prather" <smprather@gmail.com>
>
> First post! I'm thinking about writing a ruby wrapper for the Kyra 
> sprite engine. Before I waste any time, can anyone think of a reason 
> this can't/shouldn't be done? I looked at rubygame, but the author 
> doesn't seem to be interested in supporting Windows (my chosen dev 
> platform).

Hi,

I'm not sure how Kyra[1] compares to Gosu[2], but they appear to be
somewhat similar.

Gosu already has ruby bindings and runs under Windows, Mac OS X,
and Linux.


Here's a post from Florian Gross about a game written in Ruby / Gosu,
running on Win32 / OS X / Linux:
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/187832

Screenshot: http://flgr.0x42.net/gdc72h-05/final.jpg


Hope this helps,

Bill


[1] http://www.grinninglizard.com/kyra/
[2] http://www.raschke.de/julian/gosu/