Rubygame
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| Developed for: | Ruby |
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| Developer(s): | John Croisant |
| Release: | 2.4.0 |
| Released: | October 24th, 2008 |
Rubygame is a a game development library written by John Croisant for Ruby programmers and is licensed under the LGPL.[1] The latest stable release is version 2.4.0 on May 18th, 2008.[2] It sits on top of SDL.
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[edit] Development history
John Croisant written the library in response to his dislike of availible ruby libraries, RUDL and Ruby/SDL. He considered RUDL too messy and Ruby/SDL too low level. He had already tried to improve RUDL, but was repelled by the unorganized codebase so he decided to fork Ruby/SDL and add his own code. It become rubygame.[3] The SCM the rubygame project used to be subversion, then the project eventually transit to git.
Croisant stepped down in Octoboer 24th, 2008 as lead maintainer of the project and is looking for a maintainer to take over project development.
[edit] Version History
- 2.1.0 was released on November 10th, 2007
- 2.2.0 was released on December 17th, 2007
- 2.3.0 was released on May 18th, 2008. It featured the new mixin module NamedResource, which managed the storage of resources such as sounds, musics, and games for later use. It also autoload these resources on demand. In addition, Sound and Musics classes, which promises many improvement over the Mixer class, are replacing the now depreciated Mixer class.[4]
- 2.4.0 was released on October 24th, 2008. It features a totally new event handler system along with some bugfixes.[5]
[edit] Community
There is a developer forum dedicated to rubygame called Rubygame Forums. It also hosted the first RubyWeekend contest, which took place on June 13th, 2008.
[edit] Trivia
The project was once hosted on seul.org.[6]
[edit] References
- ↑ Rubygame's licensing information in Rubygame documentation
- ↑ rubyforge's download page for the rubygame project
- ↑ historical account in a FAQ by John Croisant
- ↑ Blog post on changes in the Rubygame 2.3.0
- ↑ Rubygame 2.4.0 announcement accessed on October 25th, 2008.
- ↑ Old Rubygame homepage at Seul.org
