Blunyx game library for Ruby

Ruby
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I’m very new at Ruby, and I like it very much. :slight_smile:
The only thing I would need to be completly happy with Ruby would be a
game library. I already have looked into RUDL and Ruby/Gosu and I think
Ruby/Gosu looks very good, but not exactly like I want it.
So I have started writing my own game library, Blunyx. I think it’s a
good training for me.

Some of my main goals:

  • Very easy(a non programmer should be able to read a game’s source)
    • Clean design
    • Good documentation
  • Crossplatform

Blunyx will be split into three parts:

  • Core (written in c++)
  • Mid Level (The Ruby part of the engine)
  • High Level (The API which the user will see)

If it’s not necessery to have a Mid and a High Level api i’ll mix them
together into one :wink:

I’m open for sugestions.

the projects site: http://blunyx.sourceforge.net

Alex

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great!
i’ve always wanted something to create games in ruby, and i agree that
RUDL
and Ruby/Gosu just aren’t enough.
but as i’m not experienced enough to write anything this advanced, i’m
glad
some one else will :slight_smile:
i look forward to it!
greetings, Dirk.

2005/12/27, Alexander J. [email protected]:

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On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 22:06 +0900, Dirk M. wrote:

great!
i’ve always wanted something to create games in ruby, and i agree that RUDL
and Ruby/Gosu just aren’t enough.
but as i’m not experienced enough to write anything this advanced, i’m glad
some one else will :slight_smile:
i look forward to it!
greetings, Dirk.

Thanks :slight_smile:
As I’m not very experienced with ruby many things will look not so
rubyesque as it should in v0.1(targeted for my birthday, 19.01.2005).

The first version of the core(the lowlevel c++ part) is nearly
finished(graphics only right now, other things for later).

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A question:
Where should the coordinate (0,0) be? Like in many other 2d engines at
the top-left corner, or like everything else in the bottom-left corner?
Maybe switchable(should be very easy to implement)?

btw, I already can use the BlunyxCore in irb for drawing colored
rectangles in a window :slight_smile:

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2005/12/27, Alexander J. [email protected]:

A question:
Where should the coordinate (0,0) be? Like in many other 2d engines at
the top-left corner, or like everything else in the bottom-left corner?
Maybe switchable(should be very easy to implement)?

btw, I already can use the BlunyxCore in irb for drawing colored
rectangles in a window :slight_smile:

i’d say top-left, or center (which might be useful in
sin/cos-drawings…)
greetings, Dirk.

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wow, I’m really looking forward to it. Good luck with your project
Alexander n_n

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On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 01:23 +0900, Dirk M. wrote:

i’d say top-left, or center (which might be useful in sin/cos-drawings…)
greetings, Dirk.
I’ll let the user decide, standard is top-left now. Center as (0,0) is a
cool idea, will be implementet in v0.1 or v0.2 :slight_smile:

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Hey,

i’ve always wanted something to create games in ruby, and i agree that
RUDL
and Ruby/Gosu just aren’t enough.

sorry to go OT to collect feedback here, but we get so little direct
criticism - is there something specific you’re missing about Ruby/Gosu?
I’ll admit that the focus from my side has been on C++/Gosu so far, but
I’m still trying to make Ruby/Gosu as pleasant and complete as possible,
and I’m still collecting features for the upcoming 0.6 release.

Julian

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On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 10:22 +0900, Julian R. wrote:

and I’m still collecting features for the upcoming 0.6 release.
np about going OT

some things that come to my mind which could be added to gosu:

more documentation(for me it is enough, but I really think that an well
documented, easy game library could attract non-programmers, which is a
good thing IMO).

ressource managment(for easy art packaging)

some higher level things like a tile engine

prepackaged debian binaries :wink:

please don’t be offended by my attempt to create another game library
for ruby

Alex

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Hi again,

For me, it’s native Mac OS X support.

…which already works on the iBook I’m using right now, all that has to
be done is to write all the docs. Sigh.

Julian

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On Dec 28, 2005, at 7:22 PM, Julian R. wrote:

sorry to go OT to collect feedback here, but we get so little direct
criticism - is there something specific you’re missing about Ruby/
Gosu?

For me, it’s native Mac OS X support.

James Edward G. II

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On Dec 29, 2005, at 7:07 PM, Julian R. wrote:

Hi again,

For me, it’s native Mac OS X support.

…which already works on the iBook I’m using right now, all that
has to
be done is to write all the docs. Sigh.

Ah great, I didn’t know that. Sounds like the docs are definitely
needed. :wink:

James Edward G. II