From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" Date: 2006-08-13T12:46:06+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby and games WikipedianKiba@gmail.com wrote: > F. Senault wrote: >> Hello all. >> >> 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). >> >> I was wonderering if a game maker had considered using Ruby ? Wouldn't >> that be a nice way to showcase the language ? >> >> Fred >> -- >> Oh my life is changing everyday >> Every possible way >> Though my dreams, it's never quite as it seems >> Never quite as it seems (The Cranberries, Dream) > > I never heard of game companies use Ruby to program games before. But > there are game development libraries like Rubygame and Gosu. > > There are quite a few people using Ruby to help develop games.. > However, I do not yet notice a really good open source game programmed > entirely or mainly in Ruby. Maybe we will see such a game in the > future. > > Other than that, I develop my own open source game entirely in Ruby and > recently started using Rubygame. > There's a (fairly disappointing) book on the market that addresses writing games in Python, Ruby and Lua. So at least the topic has attracted one publisher and author.