DragonRuby is a toolkit to help you create video games using the programming language Ruby. It is available for multiple platforms, including Linux. Ryan "Icculus" Gordon, someone you will know for having created various ports for Linux and SDL2, etc., has now created this new suite of development tools that we are going to present to you. Without a doubt, great news for indie developers who want to start creating their video games using this interpreted language.
Ryan himself has wanted simplify the work of game developers and make things easier compared to today's complex graphics engines. This toolkit helps a lot. If you are interested in learning more about the functionalities and features that DragonRuby includes, here is a list of what to expect if you decide to use this toolkit. By the way, Ryan himself has created a video demonstrating how simple it can be ...
If you would like to more information, here you have a tutorial, and if you want to access the project website you have it here. That said, let's see the features:
- Capable of creating complex video games in 2D.
- Very fast.
- You are a developer with a programming language C highly optimized written by Ryan C. Gordon himself.
- Tested by the indie developer Amir Rajan (Dark Room for Nintendo Switch).
- Reduced, the complete engine is only a few megabytes.
- hot loaded, real-time encoding, optimization to provide constant feedback for the developer.
- Development environment productive and simple to use.
- You can perform the compilations on Windows, MacOS, and Linux, published on Itch.io
- Build support for modding. You don't have to do anything, it just works!
- Cross platform for the games created: iOS, Android, Windows, Linux, macOS, Nintendo Switch, XBOX One, PS4.
You can buy everything from now for about $ 40 ...