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Try https://dragonruby.org/ https://dragonruby.org/. It's great! Still on SDL2, but will migrate to SDL3 eventually. Code reload (because it uses MRuby) is jus

Try https://dragonruby.org/ https://dragonruby.org/. It's great! Still on SDL2, but will migrate to SDL3 eventually. Code reload (because it uses MRuby) is just :chef-kiss:

raincole 1y ago
It looks like Love2D, except you pay $50 to use Ruby instead of Lua (admittedly I think Ruby is a better language.) I haven't used DragonRuby though, so if my above snarky comment is off please point me out.
- pusewicz 1y ago
  Very often you can snatch free copies. Join the Discord. Just ask :)
  - 90s_dev 1y ago
    As someone who dreams of making a living selling software that I've poured years and years into, that comment makes me very sad.
    - pusewicz 1y ago
      But why?
      - 90s_dev 1y ago
        Why do I want to make money from my hard work? Or why am I sad when someone offers a way to bypass paying money for hard work to get something for free?
        fatihpense 1y ago
        I assumed the original developers might give free copies in the official discord
        pusewicz 1y ago
        This.
        pusewicz 1y ago
        I meant that the author of DragonRuby is generous. And depending on your use case he might be willing to give you a free copy. Additionally, whenever there is a gamejam related to DragonRuby, he usually gives away free copies to anyone who wants to participate. For you to keep. Nobody said anything about bypassing paying money. Not sure what you were thinking.
        90s_dev 1y ago
        To be honest I was just not giving the benefit of the doubt to the comment I was replying to. I should practice that.
python-b5 1y ago
DragonRuby seems interesting, but being a paid product immediately rules it out for me. I've been working on my own similar, smaller framework, which is more work, but I believe it's valuable not to depend on a for-profit company for your work, if at all possible. Also, the attitude much of the wiki / promotional pages are written in for that framework runs me the wrong way for some reason. "Unity and GameMaker rot your brain"... are you kidding me? No they don't. You're still writing real code and solving real problems. They just have more systems in place you have to work within. I don't like the self-righteous attitude. It's fair to not want to go open source if that's your preference, but don't act like people who don't want to use closed-source software where possible are being unreasonable. I also don't see how what is effectively a Ruby wrapper for SDL3 is such an immensely complicated piece of engineering that it needs to cost as much as they're charging for it.
- pusewicz 1y ago
  It’s not just a wrapper. There’s more to it than you might think. It’s easy to say „just” without spending time understanding what a tool does.

Try https://dragonruby.org/ https://dragonruby.org/. It's great! Still on SDL2, but will migrate to SDL3 eventually. Code reload (because it uses MRuby) is just :chef-kiss:

raincole 1y ago

It looks like Love2D, except you pay $50 to use Ruby instead of Lua (admittedly I think Ruby is a better language.) I haven't used DragonRuby though, so if my above snarky comment is off please point me out.

pusewicz 1y ago
Very often you can snatch free copies. Join the Discord. Just ask :)
- 90s_dev 1y ago
  As someone who dreams of making a living selling software that I've poured years and years into, that comment makes me very sad.
  - pusewicz 1y ago
    But why?
    - 90s_dev 1y ago
      Why do I want to make money from my hard work? Or why am I sad when someone offers a way to bypass paying money for hard work to get something for free?
      - fatihpense 1y ago
        I assumed the original developers might give free copies in the official discord
        pusewicz 1y ago
        This.
      - pusewicz 1y ago
        I meant that the author of DragonRuby is generous. And depending on your use case he might be willing to give you a free copy. Additionally, whenever there is a gamejam related to DragonRuby, he usually gives away free copies to anyone who wants to participate. For you to keep. Nobody said anything about bypassing paying money. Not sure what you were thinking.
        90s_dev 1y ago
        To be honest I was just not giving the benefit of the doubt to the comment I was replying to. I should practice that.

python-b5 1y ago

DragonRuby seems interesting, but being a paid product immediately rules it out for me. I've been working on my own similar, smaller framework, which is more work, but I believe it's valuable not to depend on a for-profit company for your work, if at all possible. Also, the attitude much of the wiki / promotional pages are written in for that framework runs me the wrong way for some reason. "Unity and GameMaker rot your brain"... are you kidding me? No they don't. You're still writing real code and solving real problems. They just have more systems in place you have to work within. I don't like the self-righteous attitude. It's fair to not want to go open source if that's your preference, but don't act like people who don't want to use closed-source software where possible are being unreasonable. I also don't see how what is effectively a Ruby wrapper for SDL3 is such an immensely complicated piece of engineering that it needs to cost as much as they're charging for it.

pusewicz 1y ago
It’s not just a wrapper. There’s more to it than you might think. It’s easy to say „just” without spending time understanding what a tool does.