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Rubygame 2.5 Tomorrow

almost 3 years ago by jacius on Rubygame: The Blog - Home Comments.
I ended up having to do some not-so-minor changes to Clock today (to satisfy my OCD rigorous Quality Assurance procedures), so I didn’t quite have enough...

Rubygame News (2.5 & 3.0)

almost 3 years ago by jacius on Rubygame: The Blog - Home Comments.
Alright, in typically me-ish fashion, ”coming soon” has turned out to be over a month. A rushed and stressful work project that was supposed to last...

Poll: What Rubygame Tutorials Should I Write?

almost 3 years ago by jacius on Rubygame: The Blog - Home Comments.
I’m considering about writing some guides/tutorials about specific aspects or features of Rubygame, to help people understand how best to use them. To...

Rubygame 2.5 Coming Soon

almost 3 years ago by jacius on Rubygame: The Blog - Home Comments.
The improved Clock code is more or less done now (it’s currently in my next branch on Github, if you’re curious). The changes so far: Clock.wait and...

Tick Tock, A Better Clock

almost 3 years ago by jacius on Rubygame: The Blog - Home Comments.
Things have been ominously quiet here on the blog the past two weeks! I’ve been busy with work lately (shocking, I know), but I set aside some time the...

Rebirth 0.6

almost 3 years ago by jacius on Rubygame: The Blog - Home Comments.
I finished Rebirth 0.6 tonight. This version adds the GameObject class, which is the base class for objects in the game and on the screen, such as characters...

Deep Thinking about Shapes

almost 3 years ago by jacius on Rubygame: The Blog - Home Comments.
I’ve been getting into the real meat of the GameObject class today: drawing shapes and children. Unfortunately, I’ve run into a little tangle that I...

Rebirth 0.5

almost 3 years ago by jacius on Rubygame: The Blog - Home Comments.
I finished up Rebirth 0.5 tonight. There’s not much to say about it that I didn’t say last time: there’s a new Vector class, and Camera and Shape...

Rebirth Progress

almost 3 years ago by jacius on Rubygame: The Blog - Home Comments.
The super-charged motivation I’ve had the past few days is starting to dim, but I think I’ll be able to get another one or two versions of Rebirth released...

Rebirth 0.4

almost 3 years ago by jacius on Rubygame: The Blog - Home Comments.
I had a burst of inspiration this weekend, so I hammered out Rebirth 0.4, which adds the new Camera class. Much of the code was borrowed from my earlier...