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I just recently learned le Ruby. Where should I go from here? I want to get into video game development.

>>1 did I hear Ruby and video game development? you should check out RPG maker.

@2 That is actually how I got interested in Ruby in the first place.

Did I hear Ruby and video game development? Maybe you can manage to pull through with 3fps with a simplistic 2D engine you can cobble together!

>>4 oh come on don't be too hard on him. It's not like he's one of those kool-aids drinking dhh butt-lickers who go on and on about building shitty web "apps."

>>5
If he's using Ruby he's probably better off doing that with it, though.

>>3
Shut up already. My first games were developed on visual basic for applications (MS Office 97). I distributed .docs in floppies.

>>1
I asked myself the same question long ago and have decided to use the same professional tools people were using on Quake and Half-Life engines. (regret feelings)

Learned C with Allegro. Nice, but it was boring to run through segfaults and memleaks. After that, C++ seemed like a powerful and cryptic magic. After I fought some time with some quirks, the only magic is how it stays popular. C or C++ are probably ok for engines, but no good for prototyping and scripting tasks, like GUI, AI and level setup.

So, love2d (lua) or pygame (python) are recommended, but you can stay with ruby and cherry pick some libraries. SDL, OpenAL/modplug and Box2D recommended.

use java skript

C++ ... the only magic is how it stays popular.
that feel

>>9
It's nothing to feel bad about. C++ has lots of some annoying quirks that you'll pick up over time (some books helps a lot), but frankly, C++ programmers are almost conditioned to avoid the exceptional of exceptional cases.

>>9
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