Shattered, the rails-based MVC game development framework

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Shattered 0.3 has just been released! Inspired by Ruby on Rails,
Shattered
is doing for game development what rails has done for web development.
Get it here !

We’ve made this release more accessible than ever by focusing on
documentation.

Wiki! Tutorials! API documentation! Forums!

Act now!

Supplies ARE limited.

Shattered is a MVC game development framework built around the same two
principles rails is:

  1. Convention before configuration - those things that are common should
    be
    easy.

  2. DRY - Don’t repeat yourself - We shouldn’t need to type any more than
    is
    necessary to get something to work.

Shattered sits on top of a powerful, high level c++ 3d graphics library
called Ogre .

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http://shattered.hastilymade.com

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Martyn Garcia wrote:

Shattered sits on top of a powerful, high level c++ 3d graphics library
called Ogre .

http://shattered.hastilymade.com

If you are saying I can create 3d hardware accellerated games with Ruby
then HOLY JEEBUS I LOVE YOU.

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Hi,

I really like the initiative, but are you making this part of a product
you are developing? or just making a framework?

Greets,

Abdul

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Martyn,

To bad, a lot of academic projects seem to disappear after a while. I
think it would be more interesting if there was a company developing it
for commercial interest, if they depended on it…
Like 37signals has profited a lot from the rails project sins it got
open sourced. The same should happen to Shattered if you really like
companies to pay attention to it :slight_smile:

Abdul

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Hi Abdul,

Good question! Shattered is being derived from the projects that we
work
on.

So far Shattered has been used with 3 projects.

  1. A space fighting simulation, part of a graduate class
    assignment.(titled
    ‘Spaced Out’) - completed, but is not going to be released.

  2. A brief RPG set in a corrupt fantasy world. (titled ‘Binge’) - in
    progress

  3. A machinima about Sonic and Mario, for a different graduate class. -
    in
    progress. It may be released, unless there are legality issues.

We believe it is important that Shattered continues to be abstracted
from
real game projects.

-Martyn Garcia

http://shattered.hastilymade.com

Abdur-Rahman A. wrote:

Hi,

I really like the initiative, but are you making this part of a product
you are developing? or just making a framework?

Greets,

Abdul

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Is Shattered just for web games or are you extending rails to be like a
normal app?

Thanks
Chris

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Chris R. wrote:

Is Shattered just for web games or are you extending rails to be like a
normal app?

Thanks
Chris

More like a Rails inspired Framework for standalone 3d games. It’s
actually Rails, just takes the lessons it teaches us for how to make a
rock soild framework. It hooks into a 3d game engine.

Or so I am assuming based on the wiki and tutorial I jsut did.

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Hey Abdul,

Shattered is not an academic project. It is an open source project.
I’ve
already graduated college and I still work on it ;-).

As for a company making the product – we cannot start a company without
any
capitol. But give it 1-2 years, and we will have saved the necessary
capital to start a company.

Until then, we are building up our userbase. 37signals did not
immediately
start making money from rails. It took a while. We are going for a
linear
growth with shattered.

I assure you Abdul, we’re not going anywhere ;-).

Thanks for your constructive criticism,

-Martyn Garcia

http://shattered.hastilymade.com

Abdur-Rahman A. wrote:

Martyn,

To bad, a lot of academic projects seem to disappear after a while. I

think it would be more interesting if there was a company developing it

for commercial interest, if they depended on it…

Like 37signals has profited a lot from the rails project sins it got

open sourced. The same should happen to Shattered if you really like

companies to pay attention to it :slight_smile:

Abdul

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Hi Chris,

Shattered has absolutely nothing to do with the web ;-). Unless someone
writes a networking plugin!

Shattered is made for the creation of realtime 3d games.

Shattered is a DSL(Domain Specific Language) for 3d games, much the same
as
Rails is a DSL for web applications.

The problem domain, however, is significantly different. The only part
of
Rails that we were able to use was active_support. Programming in our
architecture, however, will feel right to those who enjoy using Rails.
This
is because Shattered is similiar to Rails in design patterns.

Thanks for your question,

-Martyn Garcia

http://shattered.hastilymade.com

Chris R.-3 wrote:

Is Shattered just for web games or are you extending rails to be like a

normal app?

Thanks