From: Daniel Berger Date: 2008-06-11T14:16:19+09:00 Subject: Re: RubyWeekend Game Contest, June 13-15 On Jun 10, 12:36 am, "John Croisant" wrote: > A bit of short notice, but we've having a small game creation contest > starting this Friday, June 13 at 20:00 GMT. The contest is called > RubyWeekend, as a cheap knock-off of Pygame's "PyWeek" (just like > Rubygame is a cheap knock-off of Pygame, right?). The idea is to > promote Ruby as a viable language for writing games, and have a lot of > fun doing it. > > The contest starts when the theme is announced on Friday – then you > have to write a game with that theme before the contest ends on > Sunday! > > Think it's impossible to write a game in just 2 days? The key is to > come up with a fun and creative idea that won't take a lot of time to > implement. You'll also have to manage your time well, not letting > yourself get stuck on little details, and deciding when (or if) to > sleep! It's a lot of fun, and a huge adrenaline rush! > > You're not limited to only Rubygame – you can use whatever you like, > as long your game is written in Ruby. That could be Gosu, Ruby-Opengl, > Ruby/SDL, Rails (for a web game), or even just a text game with plain > Ruby. It's up to you. > > Even if you can't dedicate the full weekend to writing a game > (especially on short notice, if this is the first you heard about it), > you could write a simple little game in an afternoon and evening, just > for the fun and experience. > > I hope you'll join us in writing a game with Ruby this weekend! > > Check out RubygameForums.com for more details: The talk from Andrea O.K. Wright may be of interest to anyone who plans to participate: http://rubyhoedown2007.confreaks.com/pdfs/session05.pdf Regards, Dan