minigl VS Gosu

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

Gosu (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

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