DragonRuby GTK Workshop Assets
A downloadable workshop assets for Windows, macOS, and Linux
DragonRuby GTK is professional grade (yet beginner friendly) 2D game engine. These are the assets for a workshop held by Amir at a coding user group. If you are interested in learning how to program through building video games, download these assets and follow along with this video:
Status | Released |
Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
Rating | |
Author | DragonRuby |
Genre | Simulation |
Tags | 2D, dragonruby, Game engine, Tutorial |
Install instructions
Welcome to your introduction to programming. Here is how you want to approach working with this game engine.
- Go to the folder that corresponds to your operating system and run
dragonruby
:- For Windows, you'll want to double click
dragonruby.exe
. You may get a warning about running executables downloaded from the Internet. Accept the warning and you should see the game pop up. - For Mac, you'll want to right click
dragonruby
and select Open from the context menu. - For Linux, you'll need to open up Terminal and run
./dragonruby
. - For Raspberry PI, you'll want to enable Open GL (instructions in the readme beneath that directory). After enabling Open GL, you'll need to open up Terminal and run
./dragonruby
.
- For Windows, you'll want to double click
- After the game is running, double click the
mygame
folder, then double click theapp
folder. Within that folder you should see a file calledmain.rb
. This is where the code for the game is located. You can use any text editor to change the game. Some options for code editors are: Textmate, Notepad++, VS Code, VIM (expert), or Emacs (expert). - Follow along with the code inside of
follow-along.txt
, and this video (plus the Youtube video): https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.dragonruby.org/dragonruby-nddnug-workshop.mp4
Download
Download
dragonruby-gtk-workshop.zip 61 MB
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Hi, thanks for DragonRuby!
Please check linux version of ./dragonruby file. Possible, linux and raspberry folders in 'dragonruby-gtk-workshop.zip' contains both raspberry version.
I’ll update this ASAP. Sorry about that!
Thanks very much!
Actually you can use this version. It’s more up to date. Good timing for you 🙂: http://teenytiny.dragonruby.org/
Thanks!