From: Tim Mcd <tmcdowell@...>
Date: 2008-10-31T23:27:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Roguelike project?

Nit Khair wrote:
> Tim Mcd wrote:
>> Matthew Moss wrote:
>>>> Anyone interested in a Roguelike game written in Ruby/Ncurses project?
>>>> Email me/post here!
>>> 
>>> Interested in playing? Testing? Developing?
>>> I've considered writing one at some point, but I've yet to make time
>>> and figure out ncurses.
>> 
>> Sorry: That would be interested in developing. I am novice-intermediate 
>> when it comes to Ruby code, but I thought it would be fun to create a 
>> Ruby roguelike.
> 
> It would be fun, certainly. Recently, i wrote my first ncurses program, 
> a snakes game and it was great fun. Since then, I am working on a much 
> larger ncurses project  - would have loved to work with you.
> 
> ncurses is pretty easy and fun - one problem i occasionally face is 
> getting the refreshes correct - otherwise its cool. Remember to wrap 
> your windows in panels, and its better not to use stdscr if you intend 
> having multiple pages/windows/levels - use panels.

Yeah, it's tough finding proper ruby documentation on Ncurses. I've just 
been using the Ncurses book linked at the ruby-ncurses site. That is 
written for C coding tho, so it's a bit hard porting it over. Panels? 
Enlighten me please!
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