# Rubygame / RUDL / Gosu

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygame-rudl-gosu/150855>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [October 14, 2008, 9:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygame-rudl-gosu/150855 "2008-10-14T09:42:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jakub\_PavlSSS\_k](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Jakub\_PavlSSS\_k](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jakub_PavlSSS_k)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 9:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygame-rudl-gosu/150855/1 "2008-10-14T09:42:13Z")

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Hello,

I work on a few ruby games just for fun and use RUDL as my display  
library. It seems Rubygame and Gosu are more popular than RUDL. Does  
anybody know why? (When I was trying to use rubygame cca two years ago,  
it was, being compared with RUDL, pretty ugly - abusing Ruby naming  
conventions, more procedural than OO etc.) Do you know about any  
“comparative study” of these three libraries?

Thanks,  
Jakub  
Pavlík

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**Author:** ![Jakub\_PavlSSS\_k](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Jakub\_PavlSSS\_k](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jakub_PavlSSS_k)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 5:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygame-rudl-gosu/150855/2 "2008-10-14T17:04:42Z")

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2008/10/14 Jakub Pavlík [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid):

> Hello,
> 
> I work on a few ruby games just for fun and use RUDL as my display library. It seems Rubygame and Gosu are more popular than RUDL. Does anybody know why? (When I was trying to use rubygame cca two years ago, it was, being compared with RUDL, pretty ugly - abusing Ruby naming conventions, more procedural than OO etc.) Do you know about any “comparative study” of these three libraries?

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-greg