motion-game

motion-game is a cross-platform mobile game engine for RubyMotion. It lets you write mobile games in Ruby for iOS and Android.

motion-game is currently in beta. Please give it a try and report problems you find to us.

Features

• Use Ruby :-) motion-game exposes a pure Ruby API to write games for mobile devices. You can write a video game all in Ruby.
• 100% cross-platform: motion-game projects are fully cross-platform for iOS and Android. One codebase runs everywhere.
• Fully-featured: motion-game has audio, sprites, animations, particles, device sensors / events, scene graph / director, UI widgets, etc.
• Solid foundations: the motion-game API is implemented using popular and stable opensource libraries, such as cocos2d-x, box2d, and more. motion-game projects are also based on RubyMotion which offers portable Ruby runtimes for iOS and Android as well as static compilation of Ruby code.
• Native compilation: your Ruby code will be compiled into optimized native code for each platform you target. There is no interpreter and the original Ruby code will not be in the app.
• Platform APIs access: if you need it, you can call the entire set of public iOS or Android APIs from Ruby code as well.

Getting Started

• RubyMotion is required. A starter version can be downloaded for free. You also need to set up your computer for mobile development (iOS and/or Android). Follow the Getting Started guides after installation.
• Install motion-game: $ gem install motion-game

Hello World

$ motion create --template=motion-game HelloWorld
$ cd HelloWorld
$ rake ios:simulator
$ rake ios:device
$ rake android:emulator
$ rake android:device

Samples

Check out the HipByte/motion-game-samples GitHub repository for samples.

About

motion-game is developed by HipByte, the company that makes RubyMotion. It is currently available free of charge.