http://blog.kineticweb.com/articles/2007/09/28/game-development-with-ruby en-us 40 Musings from a Ruby on Rails development team <p>Whoda thunk? You can make games with Ruby?</p> <p>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?</p> <p>The games developed so far are&#8230; pretty basic. <span class="caps">AOK</span> didn&#8217;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.</p> <p>I have yet to determine if there is a practical reason to be interested in game development with Ruby for <em>our</em> business. But this chat was still intersting to hear.</p> Among the libraries mentioned: <ul> <li><a href="http://www.shatteredruby.com/">Shattered Ruby</a></li> <li><a href="http://ogrerb.rubyforge.org/">Ogre.rb</a></li> <li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/gosu/"><span class="caps">GOSU</span></a></li> <li><a href="http://rubygame.sourceforge.net">RubyGame</a></li> </ul> Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:09:00 -0400 urn:uuid:ecc2c3ef-007d-48af-9f07-96ef67a04bd1 Colin A. Bartlett http://blog.kineticweb.com/articles/2007/09/28/game-development-with-ruby RubyEast http://blog.kineticweb.com/articles/trackback/62