From: Charles Oliver Nutter <headius@...>
Date: 2011-01-21T14:39:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Rubygame needs help: Looking for new owner, additional developers.

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 2:34 AM, John Croisant <jacius@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you are interested (_genuinely_ interested) in working on Rubygame
> in any of these roles, or another role you have in mind, please
> contact me privately.

I'll offer some justification for JRuby being a really excellent
target for Rubygame.

* Java has a bunch of really excellent 3D graphics libraries now, with
full scenegraphs, physics engines, and more.
* Most of those engines ship binaries pre-built for OS X, Windows, and
Linux. You can bundle up a JRuby game with the library in a single
binary, and it will run out of the box.
* JRuby has good performance characteristics. Tom Enebo has ported
some Java-based demo games from the JMonkeyEngine project to
Ruby...and they run just as well.
* There are already other successful games running on Java, like MineCraft.

I know Tom is interested in continuing to pursue JMonkeyEngine-based
game libraries, and maybe there's a match with Rubygame. He's been
working on a Gosu-lookalike API atop his "JRME" JMonkeyEngine wrapper.

Of course I'd personally love to see more game development atop JRuby,
because it would push us to make performance faster and faster. And
since I like new games...I assume I'd be automatically in the alpha
and beta programs for stuff folks build :)

- Charlie