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Creating a simple game in Ruby – Episode 5

Christopher — Tue, 19 May 2009 02:29:10 +0000

This is the 5th episode on creating a simple game in Ruby. In this episode, we’ll add some automated testing via the BDD framework RSpec. We’ll also start to implement the Character class.

Creating a simple game in Ruby – Episode 4

Christopher — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:06:09 +0000

In this episode we’ll do some little refactoring.

Creating a simple game in Ruby – Episode 3

Christopher — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:16:15 +0000

Creating a simple game in Ruby – Episode II

Christopher — Tue, 12 May 2009 20:14:20 +0000

Here’s the first ‘real’ episode, showing some actual coding.
Enjoy!

Screencast series: Creating a simple game in Ruby – Episode I

Christopher — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:59:25 +0000

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.