Game development with Ruby

Posted by Colin A. Bartlett Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:09:00 GMT

Whoda thunk? You can make games with Ruby?

I had no idea until I attended this talk by Andrea O. K. Wright. She discussed the various Ruby libraries and C wrappers that are utilized to create games with Ruby. Why not use the prettiest language for games?

The games developed so far are… pretty basic. AOK didn’t know of any commercial games out there using Ruby. But nonetheless, there are some pretty impressive free games and a variety of incredible proof-of-concepts out there.

I have yet to determine if there is a practical reason to be interested in game development with Ruby for our business. But this chat was still intersting to hear.

Among the libraries mentioned:
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