Today I started a new screencast series, titled “Creating a simple game in Ruby”.
Basically, I show how to create a simple (very simple) game in Ruby form scratch. Beginning with a simple text-based interface, I’ll slowly move on to a more sophisticated graphical user interface (written with the GUI library Shoes by _why) and explain my design decisions etc.
The reason I’m doing this is, that I’ve started writing a little game together with my girlfriend, since she wanted me to teach her a little about programming in Ruby. The idea for the game came from her.
Basically, the game is a Tamagotchi-Clone (called “Jimi”), where you have a little “virtual pet” you have to take care of, feed it etc.
Nothing very special, but I thought other newcomers to Ruby might be interested as well and could also learn something, hence the screencast.
I’ll post more videos, as I finish them.
Have fun watching them and leave some comments, if you want to.
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i’m the worst girlfriend in the world for never reading your blog.maybe i don’t because i understand not even half of it
hdl.