From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2003-12-16T01:35:14+09:00
Subject: [ANN] Ruby-DOOM was Re: learning the "Ruby way"

On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 10:23, Tom Copeland wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 20:37, Greg McIntyre wrote:
> <lots of nifty stuff snipped>
> > LAYOUT =<<END_LAYOUT
> > ###########
> > 0...=...t.#
> > #.........1
> > #.........####
> > #............#
> > ####.........#
> >    #.........#
> >    #.........#
> >    ###########
> > END_LAYOUT
> 
> Very cool!  I've been poking around the Doom WAD spec a bit, try to see
> how feasible it would be to generate new levels with something like:
> 
> l = Level.new(10,10)
> l.add(Wall.new(0,0,5,5))
> l.set_spawn_point(5,0)
> 
> and so forth.  But this looks like a much nicer way to do it.

To follow up on this, I've been working on a little utility to generate
DOOM maps programmatically (using Ruby, of course):

http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-doom/

One of its current features is a "Nethack renderer", i.e.:

http://ruby-doom.rubyforge.org/

I've released a couple of versions and things seem to be working out
well so far...

Yours,

tom