Since so many of you have written games in Shoes over the past few months, I thought I'd pass this along. This is a great chance to check out some of the other kits to see if they might work for you as well. And, sure, I'll get a new Shoes build out before then.
----- Forwarded message from John Croisant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:36:04 +0900 From: John Croisant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ANN] RubyWeekend Game Contest, June 13-15 To: ruby-talk ML <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 – 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 – 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.rubygameforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=28 > - John Croisant ----- End forwarded message -----
