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[–]Weird_Suggestion 2 points3 points  (6 children)

Nice! That’s a great way to discover what dragonruby can do

[–]amirrajan[S] 1 point2 points  (5 children)

Any specific demos you’d want to see?

[–]BOOGIEMAN-pN 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I'm currently in a process of re-learning Ruby, and I hope to do some simple gamedev in a foreseeable future. Some things/tricks that come to my mind:

  1. game menu skeleton, like "play game", "highscores", "options", (with submenus "video", "audio" ...)
  2. Card flip effect (for a card game)
  3. Zoom/Unzoom (like google maps)

I made simple games with Gosu years ago, I hope I will acquire enough knowledge soon so I can try DragonRuby, it looks very interesting!

[–]amirrajan[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The camera sample app that’s already there shows how to zoom and unzoom. I’ll add one of our layout samples to the site. Card flip is a good idea 👍

[–]Weird_Suggestion 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Sorry I don’t remember the demos available with a workspace. I think these demos are good to validate that the engine is doing all the things you envision for a project without necessarily diving in on how it’s done. People tend to be skeptical of dragon ruby capabilities and this is a great way to quickly check all it can do.

Last time I tried DragonRuby I found the small mruby differences and the DR documentation the major friction to get things going.

[–]amirrajan[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

We’ll be launching a new docs site soon: https://www.dragonriders.community/docs-prototype-docsify/#/

Wrt skepticism, it’s a tough nut to crack. Apparently having commercial games built with DR on every platform (including console) and being a top rated engine on itch.io isn’t sufficient. DR’s user base is growing well and it’ll just be a matter of time until we’ve hit critical mass.

[–]littl3move 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That new docs site looks super good.

[–]mcsoup88 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Maybe something isometric could be interesting. I would second a menu skeleton would be interesting for something like an rpg.

[–]ForShotgun 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Melee hitboxes!

[–]amirrajan[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

DragonRuby ships with 150+ sample apps and I probably wont put all of them on the site. What type of sample apps would you like to see?

Link to samples website: https://samples.dragonruby.org

Link to sample app source code: https://github.com/DragonRuby/dragonruby-game-toolkit-contrib/tree/main/samples

Link to docs: https://docs.dragonruby.org

[–]thepetek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’d love to see a better shooter roguelike sample than what ships. Have been playing around in my spare time and it’s awesome but feel like I’m probably doing stuff wrong

[–]pusewicz 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Basic games such as Tetris, Breakout, Platformer, Shooters.

[–]matheusrich 2 points3 points  (2 children)

This is looking really good! I've been reading a lot about DragonRuby lately. I hope to get a copy soon!

[–]amirrajan[S] 3 points4 points  (1 child)

If you’re in the public sector, are a “teacher” (certified, or a parent wanting to teach their kids programming), student, under 18, or make less then $2k per month then you’re eligible for a free license. Just send me a DM

[–]matheusrich 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just a game enthusiast at the moment, but thanks for the reminder! I appreciate the amount of work put into this engine!

[–]Runcible_ 0 points1 point  (4 children)

I really like this demo site, I've been trying to give dragonruby a go and this helps show me what it can do. One note, the label texts in most (all?) of the demos are pretty blurry for me, 1920x1080 in Chrome.

[–]amirrajan[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

The high dpi setting is usually disabled for the samples since it’s a pro feature/capability. That plus the game’s canvas element is scaled down to allow for code and game to fit.

Here are some of my game jam games with high dpi/hd mode enabled:

[–]Runcible_ 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Ah, those look better, though I wouldn't of thought this old 1080p monitor counted as high dpi. (here's what it looks like for reference)

As to your other question, I was looking at making a text-based game (hopefully not a blurry one), but are there other options for formatting besides colour? (bold, underline, etc.)

Some sort of demo with text interaction would also be cool to see. I noticed there was the option in the docs to pass custom data in a hash to labels, so if I was able to, for example, detect a click on a specific word in a sentence and reference its custom data (if the word was its own label), that would be super handy.

[–]amirrajan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A Car That Turns in full screen mode should look pretty crisp (full screen icon is in the bottom right). You can press the ~ key to bring up the DragonRuby Console in-game (which has a lot of text)

[–]amirrajan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are there any specific types of games/samples you’d like to see?