Developing games with Ruby and MiniGL

A series of posts about fast 2D game development with the Ruby programming language and the MiniGL library.

Posts:

• Part 1 - Preparing the environment

  How to setup a development environment for games with the Ruby language and the MiniGL library.

• Part 2 - the basics

  In this post we'll explore MiniGL's basic features, like drawing images and reading user commands.

• Part 3 - animation and collision

  Let's animate images and make things collide.

• Part 4 - text and buttons

  Including an objective and the possibility of restarting the game.

• Part 5 - cameras and maps

  Exploring the camera/viewport control features and creation of maps and grids.

• Part 6 - physics-based movement

  Transforming our maze game into a platformer!

• Part 7 - a complete game!

  Exploring "Super Bombinhas", a complete game made with MiniGL

Linux Quick Guide

A collection of short posts showing how to use some of most useful Linux Shell tools.

Posts:

• Counting lines using wc

  Quick guide on using wc to compute the number of lines in files.

• Read the first part of files using head

  Quick guide on using head to read the first few lines of files.

• Read the last part of files using tail

  Quick guide on using tail to read the last few lines of files.