# Shattered, the rails-based MVC game development framework **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [April 23, 2006, 9:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/shattered-the-rails-based-mvc-game-development-framework/58599 "2006-04-23T21:08:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Martyn\_Garcia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Martyn\_Garcia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Martyn_Garcia)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2006, 9:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/shattered-the-rails-based-mvc-game-development-framework/58599/1 "2006-04-23T21:08:46Z")
if( you\_want\_to\_make\_a\_game\_with\_ruby ) { [http://shattered.hastilymade.com/shattered\_ruby.png](http://shattered.hastilymade.com/shattered_ruby.png) [http://shattered.hastilymade.com/shattered\_ruby.png](http://shattered.hastilymade.com/shattered_ruby.png) [http://shattered.hastilymade.com/shattered\_ruby.png](http://shattered.hastilymade.com/shattered_ruby.png) 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 . } [http://shattered.hastilymade.com](http://shattered.hastilymade.com) ---
**Author:** ![Martyn\_Garcia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Martyn\_Garcia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Martyn_Garcia)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2006, 9:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/shattered-the-rails-based-mvc-game-development-framework/58599/2 "2006-04-23T21:18:30Z")
Martyn Garcia wrote: > Shattered sits on top of a powerful, high level c++ 3d graphics library > called Ogre . > > [http://shattered.hastilymade.com](http://shattered.hastilymade.com) If you are saying I can create 3d hardware accellerated games with Ruby then HOLY JEEBUS I LOVE YOU. ---
**Author:** ![Martyn\_Garcia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Martyn\_Garcia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Martyn_Garcia)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2006, 9:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/shattered-the-rails-based-mvc-game-development-framework/58599/3 "2006-04-23T21:36:53Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Martyn\_Garcia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Martyn\_Garcia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Martyn_Garcia)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2006, 10:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/shattered-the-rails-based-mvc-game-development-framework/58599/4 "2006-04-23T22:45:10Z")
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 🙂 Abdul ---
**Author:** ![Martyn\_Garcia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Martyn\_Garcia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Martyn_Garcia)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2006, 10:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/shattered-the-rails-based-mvc-game-development-framework/58599/5 "2006-04-23T22:20:24Z")
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](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 ---
**Author:** ![Martyn\_Garcia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Martyn\_Garcia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Martyn_Garcia)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2006, 11:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/shattered-the-rails-based-mvc-game-development-framework/58599/6 "2006-04-23T23:25:00Z")
Is Shattered just for web games or are you extending rails to be like a normal app? Thanks Chris ---
**Author:** ![Martyn\_Garcia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Martyn\_Garcia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Martyn_Garcia)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2006, 11:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/shattered-the-rails-based-mvc-game-development-framework/58599/7 "2006-04-23T23:37:21Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Martyn\_Garcia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Martyn\_Garcia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Martyn_Garcia)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2006, 11:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/shattered-the-rails-based-mvc-game-development-framework/58599/8 "2006-04-23T23:19:13Z")
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](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 🙂 > > Abdul ---
**Author:** ![Martyn\_Garcia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Martyn\_Garcia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Martyn_Garcia)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2006, 11:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/shattered-the-rails-based-mvc-game-development-framework/58599/9 "2006-04-23T23:43:37Z")
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](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