Ruby interface to Kyra sprite engine

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Hi ruby people--

First post! I'm thinking about writing a ruby wrapper for the Kyra
sprite engine. Before I waste any time, can anyone think of a reason
this can't/shouldn't be done? I looked at rubygame, but the author
doesn't seem to be interested in supporting Windows (my chosen dev
platform).

BTW, I've never even used Kyra in C++ (and I never want to be resposible
for coding another seg fault in my life), but it looks pretty
impressive.

Any opinions?

Thanks!
--Myles

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First post! I'm thinking about writing a ruby wrapper for the Kyra sprite engine. Before I waste any time, can anyone think of a reason this can't/shouldn't be done? I looked at rubygame, but the author doesn't seem to be interested in supporting Windows (my chosen dev platform).

Hi,

I'm not sure how Kyra[1] compares to Gosu[2], but they appear to be
somewhat similar.

Gosu already has ruby bindings and runs under Windows, Mac OS X,
and Linux.

Here's a post from Florian Gross about a game written in Ruby / Gosu,
running on Win32 / OS X / Linux:
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/187832

Screenshot: http://flgr.0x42.net/gdc72h-05/final.jpg

Hope this helps,

Bill

[1] http://www.grinninglizard.com/kyra/
[2] http://www.raschke.de/julian/gosu/

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Bill Kelly wrote:

From: "Stephen Prather" <smprather@gmail.com>

First post! I'm thinking about writing a ruby wrapper for the Kyra
sprite engine. Before I waste any time, can anyone think of a reason
this can't/shouldn't be done? I looked at rubygame, but the author
doesn't seem to be interested in supporting Windows (my chosen dev
platform).

Hi,

I'm not sure how Kyra[1] compares to Gosu[2], but they appear to be
somewhat similar.

Gosu already has ruby bindings and runs under Windows, Mac OS X,
and Linux.

Here's a post from Florian Gross about a game written in Ruby / Gosu,
running on Win32 / OS X / Linux:
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/187832

Screenshot: http://flgr.0x42.net/gdc72h-05/final.jpg

Hope this helps,

Bill

Hi Bill--

Thanks for the info. It doesn't look like Gosu is as full featured as
Kyra. Kyra also seems to be the popularity leader. And here's the worst
part, Kyra has a Python binding. So I now think a Ruby binding is
mandated (and the Python binding is proof of concept). I think I'll take
a shot at it.

Thanks!
--Myles

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