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Comment on 'Status Update (October 21)' by Tony Barker

2008-11-13T00:12:17Z

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Comment on 'Status Update (October 19)' by Harriet Hopper

2008-11-12T23:31:26Z

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Comment on 'Rubygame 2.4 released; Project seeking new maintainer' by ElCuGo

2008-10-31T04:37:45Z

I sometimes wish that days lasted 25 hours, I can really understand you. I hope you don’t step out of Ruby development completely though.

Comment on 'Rubygame 2.4 released; Project seeking new maintainer' by markus

2008-10-31T02:58:40Z

Somewhat sad to see you leave, but I can understand you completely. Unfortunately I still lack the C knowledge to really maintain such a big project (and rubygame is quite big by now)

I believe what we as users should do is to continue to keep the project as such alive. It does not really need fancy new additions as such for one guy alone to maintain at all. Jacius was pretty much alone in pushing rubygame forward. I of course hope that the work was not all lost.

We still have to catch up a bit with pygame in terms of playable games.

I guess if we as a user community can keep the project in healthy shape for some time, we might have demonstrated that we can maintain the project on our own already.

And for new ideas we can find other ways, rather than putting all the work on one guy alone.

PS: I still think there should be an add-on project for rubygame, one with ready-made, component widgets which can be used in a game rather easily. They do NOT need to be perfect, they just should make it easier for casual player to develop i.e. simple games with writing too much code.

Comment on 'Rubygame 2.4 released; Project seeking new maintainer' by Beoran

2008-10-27T22:03:30Z

Actually, after thinking about it, perhaps atiaxi’s idea is the most feasible for now. The users of Rubygaeme can make a maintainers committee that just bugfixes and adss andy missing functionality. Then, I will keep my wild and crazy ideas for a separate project of my own.

Comment on 'Rubygame 2.4 released; Project seeking new maintainer' by atiaxi

2008-10-27T21:24:04Z

I know all to well what you’re saying - I’m going through exactly the same time and energy constraints working on my own game - so I can’t in good conscience badger you to keep working. However, the same reasons that let me personally understand what you’re going through are the reasons I’d make a poor full-time Rubygame developer myself.

What I’d like to see instead is a Rubygame maintainer. That is, someone who merges bugfixes in and little else, someone who maintains what’s been done so far.

2.4.0 is complete enough for me to write a (huge) game based on it, and so far there aren’t any functionality holes in the library that prevent me from doing so. I get all the power of SDL, all the niceties of pygame, plus I get to do it in Ruby. Where Rubygame is, right now, is a perfect stopping point for development. All we need at the moment is someone to merge bugs in. (And that seems a much less daunting task to me than spearheading the next generation of Rubygame)

My point is: You’ve done a good job. Rubygame is an excellent library. You deserve your rest :)

Comment on 'Rubygame 2.4 released; Project seeking new maintainer' by jacius

2008-10-25T14:58:52Z

@max: The downloads on Rubyforge are working for me, please try them again. If they’re still not working for you, you can download the release from http://download.rubygame.org/files/

Comment on 'Rubygame 2.4 released; Project seeking new maintainer' by max

2008-10-25T13:22:58Z

ooohhh.. now there’s a nice thought!! :-)

Comment on 'Rubygame 2.4 released; Project seeking new maintainer' by Kiba

2008-10-25T10:47:23Z

Does that mean we can expect a game from Jacius soon?

Comment on 'Rubygame 2.4 released; Project seeking new maintainer' by max

2008-10-25T04:57:25Z

ok.. me again :-) .. the download links don’t work.. i get a 404 when i click on either .bz2 or .gem download in http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=5089&release_id=27521

can you check this?

Comment on 'Rubygame 2.4 released; Project seeking new maintainer' by max

2008-10-25T04:16:06Z

All joy on the 2.4 release vanished on hearing that you are stepping down. I understand you can’t do this anymore. I hope someone does take this up and keeps the fires burning.

Thanks for everything. :-) and good luck!!!

Comment on 'Status Update (October 23)' by jacius

2008-10-24T17:57:43Z

@ippa: Yeah, I dislike how I did that with sprites, it’s annoying. Maybe a future version will fix that.

Comment on 'Status Update (October 23)' by ippa

2008-10-24T12:28:49Z

Great work jac. And about super(), I’ve ran into the super() problem just about every time I subclass Sprite and every time it was very confusing before I found it.

Comment on 'Status Update (October 21)' by sparkymat

2008-10-22T05:51:14Z

yippee!!

oh, do post a small write-up on how to use the new features.. i am a bit lost on what magic hooks are all about…

Comment on 'Status Update (October 19)' by jacius

2008-10-21T03:01:18Z

That’s a good one! :)