willy_the_droid
By gavr-games
Gosu
2D game development library for Ruby and C++ (by gosu)
| willy_the_droid | Gosu | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 15 | |
| 1 | 1,979 | |
| - | 0.7% | |
| 10.0 | 6.8 | |
| about 2 years ago | 22 days ago | |
| Ruby | C++ | |
| - | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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willy_the_droid
Posts with mentions or reviews of willy_the_droid.
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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
I do see some projects in the "used by" section, but when I look at them, it doesn't seem they're actually using the library. Some of them have it in their dependencies, but are not actually using it. This is the only actual game made by someone else that I know of.
Gosu
Posts with mentions or reviews of Gosu.
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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.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing willy_the_droid and Gosu you can also consider the following projects:
ocra - One-Click Ruby Application Builder
ruby2d - 🎨 The Ruby 2D gem
minigl - A minimal Game Library built on top of the Gosu gem.
Gamebox - A game template for building and distributing Gosu apps.
Yeah - Ruby video game framework
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]
super-bombinhas - A 2D platformer written in Ruby.
Gosu-Tutorial - Tutorial to teach people the fundamentals
MonoGame - One framework for creating powerful cross-platform games.
GDevelop - :video_game: Open-source, cross-platform game engine designed to be used by everyone.