From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2002-10-25T01:58:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Ever write a video game in ruby?

On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 18:58:49 +0900, Greg McIntyre wrote:
> I know people who have written little action games in Python, and
> I expect the same thing can be done in Ruby (and more easily
> because of the nice C interface). Although I'm not sure why such
> simple game logic as exists in these games requires the power and
> flexibility of Ruby.

It's more than "little action games"; significant parts of
Irrational's Freedom Force were written in Python, and Python is the
modding language. I seem to recall that there's at least one other
commercial game out there that is using Python for its scripted
events and at least some of its customization.

-austin
-- Austin Ziegler, austin@halostatue.ca on 2002.10.24 at 12.57.04