motion-game

motion-game is a cross-platform mobile game engine for RubyMotion. It lets you write mobile games in Ruby for iOS, tvOS 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, tvOS 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, tvOS or Android APIs from Ruby code as well.

Getting Started

Installing RubyMotion

RubyMotion 4.7+ is required. A starter version can be downloaded for free. You also need to set up your computer for mobile development (iOS and/or tvOS and/or Android). Follow the Getting Started guides after installation.

Installing motion-game

Binaries

motion-game is available as a gem:

$ gem install motion-game

Source

You can build your own copy of motion-game:

Make sure you have your system set up for Android develpment: motion android-setup --api_version=16.

$ git clone https://github.com/HipByte/motion-game.git && cd motion-game
$ git submodule update --init
$ bundle
$ rake build:setup

$ rake gem
$ gem install motion-game-x.x.gem

Developing Locally

Once you have the source locally. Create a motion-game project as a sibling to the motion-game directory using the motion create --template=motion-game PROJECTNAME command.

Update the reference to motion-game in your Gemfile to point to your local instance of motion-game:

gem 'motion-game', path: '../motion-game'

Chances are all of you changes will be done in the /src directory (since it'll probably be adding missing Cocos2dx methods).

Once you've made your change in the correct .cpp file, run rake build:ios/rake build:android to test your changes locally (running rake gem is a longer process which you don't have to do).

Here are some examples of how to add missing apis to motion-game:

Hello World

$ motion create --template=motion-game HelloWorld
$ cd HelloWorld

iOS

$ rake ios:simulator
$ rake ios:device

tvOS

$ rake tvos:simulator
$ rake tvos:device

Android

$ rake android:emulator
$ rake android:device

API reference

The whole framework API is documented. The API reference is available online.

You can also build the API reference locally:

$ rake doc
$ open doc/index.html

Samples

The samples directory contains sample projects.

License

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

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