Hey guys, Jono here. I live in London. Stephanie Hulbert from Twitter brought me here and I'm glad to say hello!
I'm a lapsed game dev who found .NET and web dev gave me money.
I'm looking to get more involved in the dev community as well as into frontend and ruby and for real getting myself back into making games, especially with interesting AI.
Yes, all these Pragmatic books are amazing! There is also a book from Tomas Varaneckas "Developing Games With Ruby - for those who code for living" which is pretty interesting.
Ruby is just beautiful. Gosu works pretty well as long as you don't need too much speed and will certainly do for RPG and arcade games. Mostly anything you would do with Godot you can do with ruby and Gosu.
On the other hand, I really don't know about the new JIT Compiler in recent ruby versions (specially 2.7 and 3), but it seems that as long as you have some repetitive tasks, speed can be greatly improved, even more than using JRuby to compile it to Java code.
Keep us updated on your gamedev!
Best!
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Hey guys, Jono here. I live in London. Stephanie Hulbert from Twitter brought me here and I'm glad to say hello!
I'm a lapsed game dev who found .NET and web dev gave me money.
I'm looking to get more involved in the dev community as well as into frontend and ruby and for real getting myself back into making games, especially with interesting AI.
Ruby is great! Not so sure about Ruby for games, though. There is a great book/ebook about writing really basic Ruby games: Learn Game Programming with Ruby by Mark Sobkowicz.
Yes, all these Pragmatic books are amazing! There is also a book from Tomas Varaneckas "Developing Games With Ruby - for those who code for living" which is pretty interesting.
Oh neat! Will have to check that book out. Thanks for sharing!
Ruby is just beautiful. Gosu works pretty well as long as you don't need too much speed and will certainly do for RPG and arcade games. Mostly anything you would do with Godot you can do with ruby and Gosu.
On the other hand, I really don't know about the new JIT Compiler in recent ruby versions (specially 2.7 and 3), but it seems that as long as you have some repetitive tasks, speed can be greatly improved, even more than using JRuby to compile it to Java code.
Keep us updated on your gamedev!
Best!