From: Lloyd Linklater Date: 2007-07-14T04:02:22+09:00 Subject: Re: I need serious help! While so many people graciously responded with helpful tips, my first thought is that you want to climb everest before you learn to walk. You said that you have more or less no programming experience. You just can't. You need to learn what kinds of things are going on inside a computer. It is not a point and click to super gaming stardom. Once you can write programs that do what you want, then you need to decide just what kind of game you want? Sci-fi? Fantasy? Big graphics or text based? etc, etc. These are not small decisions and professional game designers spend years developing and refining their ideas. If you do all this and are still determined, try some form of gaming that has a lot of the work done for you already. One that comes to mind is the Quake engine. Several creditable games were written using it. It is, in short, something that has most of the tough stuff figured out already. There are other gaming engines, so choose wisely, young padawan. When you have chosen a gaming engine, then write in the language that works best with. That will probably not be Ruby, I am sorry to say. Ruby does not come to mind first for graphics intensive applications. If all that does not deter you then I hope that it will point you in the right direction. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.