dragonruby-game-toolkit-contrib VS minigl

It’s a combination of the following sample apps: 1. Axis align bounding box collision 2. Simple camera 3. Lighting

The Indie and Pro version of DR let you create your own C Extensions. These sample apps guide you through the process step by step.

What we can safely open source is here (we try to expand this repo as much as we can): https://github.com/DragonRuby/dragonruby-game-toolkit-contrib

DragonRuby is awesome to work with. They’ve put together tons of super useful samples: https://github.com/DragonRuby/dragonruby-game-toolkit-contrib/tree/master/samples

There are some sample apps that show how to make buttons, so most guis would be a combination of using sprites and testing for click events. The tricky part is gonna be a fully functional text box. The dragonruby heads up display has one and the machinery to get that to work is here. A few people on the Discord server have actually pulled this off and have created toy IDEs with it ha.

We have a bullet hell sample app :-) https://github.com/DragonRuby/dragonruby-game-toolkit-contrib/tree/master/samples/99_genre_arcade/bullet_hell

The full implementation is ~350 lines of code. Here's the source.

It might help to start with a simpler example. This is Pong written with the same structure. The general theme is to start simply and introduce abstraction at the “last responsible moment” as opposed to upfront: https://github.com/DragonRuby/dragonruby-game-toolkit-contrib/blob/master/samples/99_genre_arcade/pong/app/main.rb

There are a ton of sample apps you can go through here: https://github.com/DragonRuby/dragonruby-game-toolkit-contrib/tree/master/samples

Working src link: https://github.com/DragonRuby/dragonruby-game-toolkit-contrib/blob/master/samples/99_genre_arcade/flappy_dragon/app/main.rb

There's a list of the games in the repository's README (https://github.com/victords/minigl).

if you want to explore gosu, minigl looks interesting

I didn't use these frameworks but if you want to go with Ruby, I would recommend Gosu, which is more active than Ruby2D (they have a pretty active Discord server). Since it's a bit low-level, you could also use my gem MiniGL which builds on Gosu to make a lot of things easier, and I also actively maintain.

I recently decided to recreate a puzzle game that I developed all the way back in 2012, with C++, but this time with Ruby and my library MiniGL. I was curious to see how quickly I could do it and, having all of the graphics and sound assets already done, it only took a week (working between 2 and 3 hours per day). I didn't reuse any of the original code, and even made some small improvements.

Don't forget MiniGL :)

By the way, it's worth mentioning that there's a .deb for Debian-based distros that you can get for free on https://victords.itch.io/super-bombinhas. Also, if you're willing to do a bit more work, you should also be able to run it on Mac - you'd just have to install Ruby and the Gosu and MiniGL gems, then clone the game's repo and follow the Readme.

Hi! I've wanted to create an RPG inspired by the first Paper Mario games for a long time, but having to deal with 3D graphics was always a blocker for me... So I finally managed to create an isometric 3D "engine" using only 2D libraries (Gosu and MiniGL) and I'm happy with the results so far.

Neither, I use Gosu and my own little library, MiniGL.

I wanted to share with you my new open source puzzle game, ConnecMan. It's not actually "new", but a remake of a game I created years ago with the proprietary and now obsolete XNA framework. It's now fully recreated with Ruby and my library MiniGL.