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Re: RubyWeekend Game Contest, June 13-15

Daniel Berger

6/11/2008 5:16:00 AM



On Jun 10, 12:36 am, "John Croisant" <jac...@gmail.com> wrote:
> A bit of short notice, but we've having a small game creation contest
> starting this Friday, June 13 at 20:00 GMT. The contest is called
> RubyWeekend, as a cheap knock-off of Pygame's "PyWeek" (just like
> Rubygame is a cheap knock-off of Pygame, right?). The idea is to
> promote Ruby as a viable language for writing games, and have a lot of
> fun doing it.
>
> The contest starts when the theme is announced on Friday =96 then you
> have to write a game with that theme before the contest ends on
> Sunday!
>
> Think it's impossible to write a game in just 2 days? The key is to
> come up with a fun and creative idea that won't take a lot of time to
> implement. You'll also have to manage your time well, not letting
> yourself get stuck on little details, and deciding when (or if) to
> sleep! It's a lot of fun, and a huge adrenaline rush!
>
> You're not limited to only Rubygame =96 you can use whatever you like,
> as long your game is written in Ruby. That could be Gosu, Ruby-Opengl,
> Ruby/SDL, Rails (for a web game), or even just a text game with plain
> Ruby. It's up to you.
>
> Even if you can't dedicate the full weekend to writing a game
> (especially on short notice, if this is the first you heard about it),
> you could write a simple little game in an afternoon and evening, just
> for the fun and experience.
>
> I hope you'll join us in writing a game with Ruby this weekend!
>
> Check out RubygameForums.com for more details: <http://www.rubyga...
com/viewtopic.php?t=3D28>

The talk from Andrea O.K. Wright may be of interest to anyone who
plans to participate:

http://rubyhoedown2007.confreaks.com/pdfs/ses...

Regards,

Dan
1 Answer

Andrea O. K. Wright

6/12/2008 10:15:00 AM

0

[Note: parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]

If you're not familiar with Ruby game development frameworks, you might find
the articles I wrote based my notes for that talk helpful:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/ruby/2007/12/04/creating-games-in...
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/ruby/2007/12/18/creating-games-in-ruby-part-...
/a/ruby/2007/12/18/creating-games-in-ruby-part-2.html<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/ruby/2007/12/18/creating-games-in-ruby-part-...

I'm not going to be able to enter, but I'm really looking forward to seeing
how the competition plays out.
AOK


>
> The talk from Andrea O.K. Wright may be of interest to anyone who
> plans to participate:
>
> http://rubyhoedown2007.confreaks.com/pdfs/ses...
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan
>
>