Category

Game libraries

Useful Ruby game-development-related libraries

0.79
A long-lived project that still receives updates
2D game development library. Gosu provides simple and game-friendly interfaces to 2D graphics and text (accelerated by 3D hardware), sound samples and music as well as keyboard, mouse and gamepad/joystick input.
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0.68
No release in over 3 years
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Shoes is the best little GUI toolkit for Ruby. This gem is currently a placeholder until we properly gemfiy Shoes.
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0.27
There's a lot of open issues
No release in over a year
Make cross-platform 2D applications in Ruby
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0.13
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Gioco is a easy to implement gamification gem based on plug and play concept. Doesn't matter if you already have a full and functional database, Gioco will smoothly integrate everything and provide all methods that you might need.
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0.12
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Clean and powerful library for game programming
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0.11
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Framework for building and distributing games using Gosu
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0.07
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Written to play with Ruby
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0.06
Low commit activity in last 3 years
A long-lived project that still receives updates
A minimal 2D Game Library built on top of the Gosu gem.
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0.06
No release in over 3 years
Low commit activity in last 3 years
There's a lot of open issues
Enhanced ruby bindings for the chipmunk game physics engine.
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0.04
A long-lived project that still receives updates
[Please consider migrating to opengl-bindings2 (https://rubygems.org/gems/opengl-bindings2)] Ruby bindings for OpenGL - 4.6, OpenGL ES - 3.2 and all extensions using Fiddle (For MRI >= 2.0.0). GLFW/GLUT/GLU bindings are also available.
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0.04
Repository is archived
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Ruby bindings to SFML
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There's a lot of open issues
Metro is a 2D Gaming framework built around gosu (game development library). Metro makes it easy to create games by enforcing common conceptual structures and conventions.
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0.03
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An OpenGL wrapper for Ruby. opengl contains bindings for OpenGL. Be sure to check out {GLU}[https://github.com/larskanis/glu] and {GLUT}[https://github.com/larskanis/glut] gems.
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0.02
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Fidgit is a GUI library built on Gosu/Chingu
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0.01
No release in over 3 years
OpenGL accelerated 2D game framework for Ruby. Builds on Gosu (Ruby/C++) which provides all the core functionality. Chingu adds simple yet powerful game states, prettier input handling, deployment safe asset-handling, a basic re-usable game object and stackable game logic.
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0.01
No commit activity in last 3 years
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This is a high-performance Ruby C-extension for the excellent GLFW3 library.
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0.01
Repository is archived
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Gosu-Android is an implementation for Android devices of the multiplatform Gosu library.
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LiteRGSS is a Game library that allows you to easly make Games with Ruby. LiteRGSS uses SFML to get Inputs and to display Graphics.
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0.0
The project is in a healthy, maintained state
Nerd dice allows you to roll polyhedral dice and add bonuses as you would in a tabletop roleplaying game. You can choose to roll multiple dice and keep a specified number of dice such as rolling 4d6 and dropping the lowest for ability scores or rolling with advantage and disadvant...
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0.0
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Parsing OpenGL specs, so you don't have to. Supports up to version 4.6.
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0.0
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Jemini is a game library designed to allow creation of reusable features. How many times has someone implemented the aiming on a first person shooter, or a minimap on a real time strategy? Jemini comes packaged with lots of behaviors out of the box, with the ability to easily author more. Jemini ...
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0.0
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A simple framework that aims to improve your Gosu experience.
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0.0
Repository is archived
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Ruby binding for SFML2 Audio
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0.0
Repository is gone
No release in over 3 years
`dxruby-sdl` is a ruby library for 2D graphics and game. It has same DXRuby API. It use SDL/Ruby.
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