Gosu
2D game development library for Ruby and C++ (by gosu)
minigl
A minimal Game Library built on top of the Gosu gem. (by victords)
Gosu | minigl | |
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15 | 15 | |
1,975 | 154 | |
0.5% | - | |
6.8 | 5.6 | |
14 days ago | 2 months ago | |
C++ | Ruby | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Gosu
Posts with mentions or reviews of Gosu.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-26.
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Crystal2Day: A simple 2D game framework in Crystal
For the beginning, it will be a simple 2D game library (or glorified SDL wrapper :D), similar to Ruby libraries like https://www.ruby2d.com/ or https://www.libgosu.org/ , albeit with some additional functions typical to 2D games (like scenes, maps, entities, ...) available. This is something I'm still missing in Crystal (there are some bindings for C libraries and some early or abandoned approaches, but that's about it).
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My Ruby game library, MiniGL, has surpassed 100,000 total downloads
Sorry, I just realized that I only linked to Gosu's Linux instructions, but in their wiki there's also a page for Windows and another one for Mac OS.
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ruby2d vs pygame
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.
- Don't make me think, or why I switched to Rails from JavaScript SPAs
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My solo-developed, Ruby powered, platformer game Super Bombinhas will be available soon on Steam!
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.
- Video-sources for learning Ruby from scratch
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Started working on an isometric RPG project
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.
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Libraries for other languages similar to Ebiten?
Gosu (Ruby)
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What game engine is good for ruby?
I've not used it myself in about 5 years but it looks like they have a pretty good tutorial on getting started on their wiki https://github.com/gosu/gosu/wiki/Ruby-Tutorial
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A small sample of the large amount of content from the free and open source 2D platformer Super Bombinhas, written in Ruby. Download on https://victords.itch.io/super-bombinhas
Neither, I use Gosu and my own little library, MiniGL.
minigl
Posts with mentions or reviews of minigl.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-28.
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My Ruby game library, MiniGL, has surpassed 100,000 total downloads
There's a list of the games in the repository's README (https://github.com/victords/minigl).
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Simple game tutorials in Ruby using Ruby2D
if you want to explore gosu, minigl looks interesting
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ruby2d vs pygame
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.
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Puzzle game made in 1 week
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.
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Ruby is good for the soul. Have fun with it. That's the most important thing. Build a game. Here's one I'm working on (source code + playable link in the comments).
Don't forget MiniGL :)
- Meu jogo de plataforma estará disponível em breve na Steam!
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My solo-developed, Ruby powered, platformer game Super Bombinhas will be available soon on Steam!
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.
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Started working on an isometric RPG project
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.
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A small sample of the large amount of content from the free and open source 2D platformer Super Bombinhas, written in Ruby. Download on https://victords.itch.io/super-bombinhas
Neither, I use Gosu and my own little library, MiniGL.
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ConnecMan - open source puzzle game
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.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Gosu and minigl you can also consider the following projects:
ruby2d - 🎨 The Ruby 2D gem
ocra - One-Click Ruby Application Builder
Gamebox - A game template for building and distributing Gosu apps.
dragonruby-game-toolkit-contrib - Parts of DragonRuby GameToolkit source released under MIT license.
Yeah - Ruby video game framework
super-bombinhas-editor - The level editor for the platformer game Super Bombinhas.
gosu - Simple Go-based setuid+setgid+setgroups+exec
Phaser - Phaser is a fun, free and fast 2D game framework for making HTML5 games for desktop and mobile web browsers, supporting Canvas and WebGL rendering. [Moved to: https://github.com/phaserjs/phaser]
connecman - Remake of my old puzzle game ConnecMan with Ruby and Gosu
super-bombinhas - A 2D platformer written in Ruby.