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Vinicius Barboza edited this page Dec 25, 2015 · 50 revisions

MiniGL is a minimal 2D Game Library, available as a Ruby gem, and built on top of the Gosu gem.

It provides the following features:

  • Resource management (images, sounds, ...)
  • Input manipulation (keyboard, mouse, ...)
  • UI (text, buttons, text fields, ...)
  • Basic physics and collision checking
  • Animated objects

More functionalities are coming. Feel free to contribute! You can send feedback to [email protected].

Installing

MiniGL was built on top of the Gosu gem. This gem has its own dependencies for compiling extensions. Visit this page for details.

After installing the Gosu dependencies, you can just gem install minigl.

Getting started

MiniGL is now available under two main versions. For the latest version, you can use the official tutorial. For the 1.x series, use the old tutorial. Furthermore, here is an unofficial tutorial covering the latest MiniGL example files.

Documentation

  • The library is 100% RDoc-documented here (2.0.4).
  • This wiki is a work in progress with tutorials and examples.
  • Test package and examples aren't complete!

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