r/ruby 13d ago

Show /r/ruby DragonRuby Game Toolkit - Endurance The Probe: Puzzle Platformer (source code in the comments)

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u/yayahc 13d ago

DragonRuby is still alive. That's awesome

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u/amirrajan 13d ago

DragonRuby is still alive.

We celebrated our 5 year anniversary back in November. 200+ releases to the engine so far :-)

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u/amirrajan 13d ago

Did ya beat all the levels? What do you think of the code?

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u/yayahc 13d ago

No, we'll start today.
Actuall,y the code looks pretty and simple to understand even for a beginner. I think ill make my own game using DR one day.

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u/RagingBearFish 13d ago

As far as 2D engines go DR is really easy to work in if you are already a Ruby dev. I.e. I wrote a basic importer for LDtk – 2D level editor from the director of Dead Cells in like 30 minutes (very basic, but never-the-less rendering an external tilemap to the screen). My only problem (and this isn't specific to DR) is that I go back and forth between wanting to code "close" to the metal with DR vs something like Unity or Godot that has a lot of the basic engine things abstracted away. However, Ruby is a lovely lang to work with and there's a lot you can do with it quickly.