[Rickster0]

Ok im going to create a series of tuts on how to create a Very simple game in Ruby.

Firstly, you'll need the Gosu Lib. found HERE!

after you have that done. Create a folder for the project. then extract the Gosu folder (somewhere thats not in the project folder) then go into the Lib folder of gosu. copy "gosu.for_1_8.so", "gosu.rb" and "fmod.dll" into your project folder.

now. open up Notepad(or a texteditor of your choice) and put this code in:

require 'gosu'

class GameWindow < Gosu::Window
  def initialize
	super(640, 480, false)
	self.caption = "Gosu Window"
  end

  def update
  end

  def draw
  end
end

window = Gamewindow.new
window.show

now save it as main.rb and run.

now i shall explain what all this does.

 require 'gosu'

this allows the ruby file to use Gosu's built in classes.

class GameWindow < Gosu::Window

creates a new class defined by the Gosu::Window class, allowing you to create a window.

 def initialize
	super(640, 480, false)
	self.caption = "Gosu Window"
  end

when the GameWindow is created, it sets up a new window of 640 width and 480 hight, with a caption of Gosu window.

window = Gamewindow.new
window.show

creates a new instance of the GameWindow class, then displays it on the screen.

if there are any problems feel free to ask.

the next part of this tut will show you how to create a sprite on the screen and move it using the arrow keys .. keep a look out

[selavy_rrose]

Yes, please, would be very helpful to me, as currently I don't know how to make keyboard name input, and mouse movement.

[crummydo]

If anybody has tried this and found errors on running, check that line 16 reads

Window (with a capital W)

and not

Gamewindow.new

Ruby, like many languages, is case sensitive. But the system used to insert code changes it to a lower case. Not the contributors fault.

This post has been edited by crummydo: 10 April 2010 - 02:28 PM

[Blackllama]

This may end up being a stupid question, but how do you run it?