Suggest a game development tool?

[Tim Mcd]

I'd like to make a 2D RPG in the style of FF5 and it's ilk. What tool do
you suggest using? Trying to get rubygame to work on my mac? Or the
other rudl/ruby+sdl tools, that just dont seem to want to work under
Snow Leopard? ._.

Any other options? Is Gosu good for this sort of animation, that is,
lots of animated gifs? xD

 

[Tony Arcieri]

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Any other options?

Pygame?

 

[Greg Donald]

I'd like to make a 2D RPG in the style of FF5 and it's ilk. What tool do
you suggest using?

C++ is the usual game dev language.

 

[Tim Mcd]

C++ is the usual game dev language.

But ruby is the fun language

 

[Shawn Anderson]

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There are other options:

Rubygame <http://rubygame.org> (SDL w/ some OpenGL options if desired)
Gamebox <http://github.com/shawn42/gamebox> (Framework built on top of
Rubygame) <-- my favorite*
Ogre.rb <http://ogrerb.rubyforge.org/> (Ruby bindings to Ogre3D engine)
Gosu <http://www.libgosu.org/> (OpenGL based 2D)
RPG-Template-for-Ruby-Gosu<http://github.com/Dahrkael/RPG-Template-for-Ruby-Gosu>(seems
like a nice starting point)

/Shawn

* my favorite aka my library

 

[Aldric Giacomoni]

I seem to recall that someone developed a clone of the original
Wolfenstein 3D in Ruby - you can look for that on youtube, I believe.
Ruby does scale

 

[Marc Robert]

Tim Mcd a écrit :

I'd like to make a 2D RPG in the style of FF5 and it's ilk. What tool do
you suggest using? Trying to get rubygame to work on my mac? Or the
other rudl/ruby+sdl tools, that just dont seem to want to work under
Snow Leopard? ._.

Any other options? Is Gosu good for this sort of animation, that is,
lots of animated gifs? xD

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Well too bad you're on Mac, cause you could have used the famous tool
for that:
RPG Maker which only exists on Windows.

both latest versions (XP, VX), include ruby programming, allowing great
flexibility to the game creation.
Dahrkael template is actually based on the scripts from this software.

 

[Marc Heiler]

The guy who suggested pygame should be spanked

Use rubygame.

 

[Josh Cheek]

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I'd like to make a 2D RPG in the style of FF5 and it's ilk. What tool do
you suggest using? Trying to get rubygame to work on my mac? Or the
other rudl/ruby+sdl tools, that just dont seem to want to work under
Snow Leopard? ._.

Any other options? Is Gosu good for this sort of animation, that is,
lots of animated gifs? xD

Here is a nice list, including some basic stats and links.

http://ruby-toolbox.com/categories/game_libraries.html