[MacRuby-devel] Ruby/SDL bindings with MacRuby (Cocoa?)

[John Shea]

Hi Timothy,

I have converted Tim Burks RubyRocks - a simple Asteroids game to  
MacRuby - with NSViews and another version to use OpenGL.
The OpenGL version has some ObjC code to get access to pixels.

They are at johmacshea.org - which bounces to my idisk while I am on  
holidays - in the MacRuby/Game Related.

In the Hillegas directory on the same site there is a MacRuby example  
that uses CoreAnimation - called Polynomials - I don't think its  
however appropriate to write action games in - or at least not  
initially as easy as other possibilities - though i would be happy to  
see someone prove me wrong - since in some ways it would be easier  
than OpenGL .

Let me know if you have any issues getting them running.
Cheers
John

On Feb 15, 2009, at 7:06 AM, Laurent Sansonetti wrote:

> Timothy,
>
> I don't think that the Ruby/SDL bindings can be used today inside  
> MacRuby. The extensions mechanism still suffers from problems.
>
> While I'm not a Quartz expert I am pretty sure you can replace Ruby/ 
> SDL by pure Mac OS X APIs, with as Quartz but also CoreImage,  
> CoreAudio, CoreAnimation, OpenGL (which can be called from MacRuby),  
> etc. Now it depends if you want to write cross-platform code.
>
> HTH,
> Laurent
>
> On Feb 14, 2009, at 9:35 PM, Timothy McDowell wrote:
>
>> Is it possible for me to use the Ruby/SDL bindings with MacRuby/ 
>> Cocoa? Also, can Quartz handle movement of sprites (gifs, pngs,  
>> jpgs?) and the like? Would Quartz be just fine for game development?
>>
>> -- 
>> --Timothy.
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