From: Shawn Anderson <shawn42@...>
Date: 2009-02-13T03:21:20+09:00
Subject: Re: GUI / graphical games: where to start?

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There's a few options here:
2D games:
Rubygame (my favorite)
Gosu
RUDL (not really maintained IIRC)
Gemini (require JRuby)

3D
Ogre.rb (ruby bindings for ogre 3d engine)

These are the ones I know off the top of my head.
Hope this helps,
Shawn


On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 9:53 AM, snex <xens@comcast.net> wrote:

> On Feb 12, 11:42 am, Aldric Giacomoni <"aldric[remove]"@trevoke.net>
> wrote:
> > Hi all, I'd like to start getting my hands dirty with some graphical
> > stuff but I have no idea where to begin - like, for instance, a game of
> > pong. What libraries/gems are out there to do stuff like that? Do I have
> > no choice but to use something like rubyfx or the gtk or tk bindings and
> > then kinda cover it up?
> > I know I -should- have something and ask for advice but .. I'd like to
> > even know how to get started ;)
> > Do you have any advice for tutorials, or gems, or even good keywords for
> > a google search (though I can usually find those on my own) ?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --Aldric
>
> id go with the opengl and glut bindings. they should be cross-platform.
>
>

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