# RubyWeekend Game Contest, June 13-15 **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [June 10, 2008, 11:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyweekend-game-contest-june-13-15/140042 "2008-06-10T11:07:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![amin1426](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@amin1426](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/amin1426)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 11:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyweekend-game-contest-june-13-15/140042/1 "2008-06-10T11:07:31Z")
A bit of short notice, but we’ve having a small game creation contest starting this Friday, June 13 at 20:00 GMT. The contest is called RubyWeekend, as a cheap knock-off of Pygame’s “PyWeek” (just like Rubygame is a cheap knock-off of Pygame, right?). The idea is to promote Ruby as a viable language for writing games, and have a lot of fun doing it. The contest starts when the theme is announced on Friday – then you have to write a game with that theme before the contest ends on Sunday! Think it’s impossible to write a game in just 2 days? The key is to come up with a fun and creative idea that won’t take a lot of time to implement. You’ll also have to manage your time well, not letting yourself get stuck on little details, and deciding when (or if) to sleep! It’s a lot of fun, and a huge adrenaline rush! You’re not limited to only Rubygame – you can use whatever you like, as long your game is written in Ruby. That could be Gosu, Ruby-Opengl, Ruby/SDL, Rails (for a web game), or even just a text game with plain Ruby. It’s up to you. Even if you can’t dedicate the full weekend to writing a game (especially on short notice, if this is the first you heard about it), you could write a simple little game in an afternoon and evening, just for the fun and experience. I hope you’ll join us in writing a game with Ruby this weekend! Check out [RubygameForums.com](http://RubygameForums.com) for more details: \< [http://www.rubygameforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=28](http://www.rubygameforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=28) \> - John C. ---
**Author:** ![amin1426](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@amin1426](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/amin1426)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 9:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyweekend-game-contest-june-13-15/140042/2 "2008-06-10T21:30:21Z")
It’s about time! I’m in. /Shawn ---
**Author:** ![amin1426](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@amin1426](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/amin1426)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 10:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyweekend-game-contest-june-13-15/140042/3 "2008-06-10T22:20:54Z")
Me too. Wooo Hooo! ~Jay ---
**Author:** ![amin1426](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@amin1426](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/amin1426)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 10:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyweekend-game-contest-june-13-15/140042/4 "2008-06-10T22:40:53Z")
Yeah, lets rock =) 2008/6/11, Jayson W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): ---
**Author:** ![amin1426](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@amin1426](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/amin1426)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2008, 7:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyweekend-game-contest-june-13-15/140042/5 "2008-06-11T07:17:25Z")
On Jun 10, 12:36 am, “John C.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Even if you can’t dedicate the full weekend to writing a game > (especially on short notice, if this is the first you heard about it), > you could write a simple little game in an afternoon and evening, just > for the fun and experience. > > I hope you’ll join us in writing a game with Ruby this weekend! > > Check out [RubygameForums.com](http://RubygameForums.com) for more details: [http://www.rubygameforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=28](http://www.rubygameforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=28) The talk from Andrea O.K. Wright may be of interest to anyone who plans to participate: [http://rubyhoedown2007.confreaks.com/pdfs/session05.pdf](http://rubyhoedown2007.confreaks.com/pdfs/session05.pdf) Regards, Dan ---
**Author:** ![amin1426](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@amin1426](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/amin1426)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2008, 1:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyweekend-game-contest-june-13-15/140042/6 "2008-06-11T13:52:11Z")
Hi, Maybe you can plug the next RubyWeekend on the [gamecompo.com](http://gamecompo.com) newsletter, they also advertise Pyweeks there. Not just so I would have found it earlier ;), there also may be some Python or C people that don’t mind trying out Ruby. I just copied the link to the Gosu front page, hoping that someone will follow the short notice. I’ll try my best to come up with an entry too. The more open source Ruby games, the better! 🙂 -Julian ---
**Author:** ![amin1426](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@amin1426](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/amin1426)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2008, 5:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyweekend-game-contest-june-13-15/140042/7 "2008-06-11T05:58:13Z")
Pressing obligations mean I won’t be able to participate this weekend, but I did want to say that this contest is a morale-booster for myself, and I’m sure others. As someone who is learning Ruby for the express purpose of writing a game, it’s nice to see that a subset of the community is actively stepping up to do just that. 🙂 I can’t wait to see the results. ---
**Author:** ![amin1426](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@amin1426](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/amin1426)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 1:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyweekend-game-contest-june-13-15/140042/8 "2008-06-12T13:14:40Z")
If you’re not familiar with Ruby game development frameworks, you might find the articles I wrote based my notes for that talk helpful: > **[O'Reilly Media - Technology and Business Training](https://www.oreilly.com)** > > Gain technology and business knowledge and hone your skills with learning resources created and curated by O'Reilly's experts: live online training, video, books, our platform has content from 200+ of the world's best publishers. [O'Reilly Media - Technology and Business Training](http://www.oreillynet.com/pub)[http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/ruby/2007/12/18/creating-games-in-ruby-part-2.html](http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/ruby/2007/12/18/creating-games-in-ruby-part-2.html) /a/ruby/2007/12/18/creating-games-in-ruby-part-2.html[http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/ruby/2007/12/18/creating-games-in-ruby-part-2.html](http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/ruby/2007/12/18/creating-games-in-ruby-part-2.html) I’m not going to be able to enter, but I’m really looking forward to seeing how the competition plays out. AOK