From: Clever Monkey Date: 2007-09-18T02:30:05+09:00 Subject: Re: I need serious help! Joe Wiltrout wrote: > Ben Bleything wrote: > >> I'd like to also take this opportunity to throw my two cents in the mix. >> I agree completely with the folks who are telling you to slow down and >> go one step at a time. >> >> To go from effectively no experience to trying to do graphics >> programming in a language without intermediate steps is, frankly, >> madness. You need to learn the fundamentals before you can hope to >> build a stable graphical game, much less a performant one. >> >> If you're serious about game programming in Ruby, I think you'll find a >> number of other people who are interested as well. But you need to do >> your homework, as it were, before you dive right in. I'd suggest >> starting by converting your game's mechanic into something that can be >> played in text format, and building that. >> >> This will give you a great deal of insight into the highs and lows of >> your concept, as well as give you a pretty damn good familiarity with >> the kinds of low-level Ruby code you'll need to write when you do the >> graphical version. >> >> Once that's done and you're happy with it, go back to your original >> design and add the graphics layer. > > I don't even get how to make anything work in Ruby. It all looks lke > gibberish. If I don't understand how Hello World thing works, how is it > suposed to help me learn how to make 3-d graphics and kick ass gameplay? > If you don't understand how "Hello World" works, how will you ever learn anything? And then the young programmer was enlightened. -- clvrmnky Direct replies will be blacklisted. Replace "spamtrap" with my name to contact me directly.