To celebrate the 3-year anniversary of DragonRuby Game Toolkit (and 8 years as an Indie game dev), I'm making the game engine free for the next 3 days. Tips for succeeding as an Indie in the comments too.

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  • drtiled

    Tiled map loader for DragonRuby Game Toolkit

  • We can render pretty much any graphical format. There are open source projects out there for importing Tiled and also LDtk. Both projects are active on our Discord server if you hit any snags.

  • LDtkBridge

    A bridge between LDtk and DragonRuby

  • We can render pretty much any graphical format. There are open source projects out there for importing Tiled and also LDtk. Both projects are active on our Discord server if you hit any snags.

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  • dragonruby-game-toolkit-contrib

    Parts of DragonRuby GameToolkit source released under MIT license.

  • 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.

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