Building Games with DragonRuby

A free, online book on how to make games with Ruby using DragonRuby Game Toolkit by Brett Chalupa and the DragonRuby community.

Above is the final version of the game you'll be building—a simple shoot 'em up where you pilot a dragon and spit fire at the targets. The book walks through step-by-step on how to code every single aspect of the game.

Here are some kind things people have said about the book:

Reading Building Games with DragonRuby book was a breath of fresh air to me.

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Thanks for the book, I really enjoyed the writing style!

Topics Covered

• The fundamentals of game programming
• Handling input from keyboard and gamepad
• Rendering sprites & animating them
• Saving and loading high-score data
• Playing sound effects and music
• Coding menus and different game scenes
• Refactoring the code to make it easier to maintain

Read the Book!

📖 Read the book online, it's free!

A PDF and offline version is available for download too.

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More Details

Building Games with DragonRuby is open source and contributions are welcome.

Building Games with DragonRuby by Brett Chalupa is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International and the code snippets are unlicensed.