From: Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@...>
Date: 2006-08-13T06:04:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and games

On 8/12/06, F. Senault <fred@lacave.net> wrote:
> Python seems to be used as a scripting language by quite a few big games
> (I'm playing Civilization IV currently, and I remember at least one of
> the Vampire CRPG uses it too).

Games have some uniquely challenging requirements. Python has an
event-driven framework called Twisted that was originally developed as
part of a massively multiplayer game and has since been very
successful on its own.

Ruby now has a framework with similar features (efficient high-speed
i/o without threads, for one thing) called EventMachine. EM is not as
feature-rich as Twisted yet, but it has been used to develop one game
(Nebular Gauntlet) that I know of.