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Where did you hear that Among Us was built on DragonRuby? All I can find is that it was written in C# and Unity.
I saw it on the itch website and thought it was for ruby projects, so perhaps I'm mistaken.
Why would I choose this over a FOSS 2D game engine like Godot that offers almost everything this engine offers without the price tag? Not trying to shit on the project, I just don't see a compelling argument put forth on the website as to why I should pay $50 or $98 a year for an engine that I can only see has been used to port one open source game to Switch and a bunch of tech demos. What's the hook? Why should this…
What's the hook? The hook is you like to program in Ruby, so here is a game engine where you can use Ruby.
No offense to ruby programmers but, Ruby's not necessarily the ideal language for game programming even when it comes to scripting languages.
And...if you know ruby well enough to make a game, you could learn one of the many other languages better suited to game dev fairly easily.
What makes this worth paying for?
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Agree. I don't know if the Ruby interpreter is what I'd look to for performance in a game.
Unity’s implementation of C# is subpar to say the least. Watch the YouTube video, it demonstrates DragonRuby’s speed vs Unity. We can render twice as many sprites and are 1/8th the size. We also expose C Extensions to the end user if they what blinding fast performance for critical paths.
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Agree. I don't know if the Ruby interpreter is what I'd look to for performance in a game.
Unity’s implementation of C# is subpar to say the least. Watch the YouTube video, it demonstrates DragonRuby’s speed vs Unity. We can render twice as many sprites and are 1/8th the size. We also expose C Extensions to the end user if they what blinding fast performance for critical paths.
> double the amount of sprites
It sounds a bit low? My experience is that with instancing and 2d array textures (2d games usally uses spritesheets) can be much much faster then 2x. I would guess 20x-200x faster than unity.
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Wait, you're suggesting Ruby is better than Unity? This has to be a joke.
Nope. Not a joke. We’re faster too: https://youtu.be/UuY7CWdvyWM
This looks like a fantastic dev experience and it's great to see this team building something like this. Indie game dev is near and dear to my heart. Unfortunately, HN tends to be full of haters. On the behalf of the rest of us, thanks for sharing DragonRuby!
I'll stick up for the community: I don't think that's true. This submission has been heavily upvoted, after all. You may be running into the contrarian dynamic: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
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Godot, unity, and unreal do all that too. I’m not seeing the advantage other than it’s ruby. Seems like a niche product.
I can only speak for Unity until versions till maybe 2019 - and I never developed a full commercial title with it - just a few game jam games - so maybe I'm not the best authority on that... But I think it's quite far away in many of those features Sure you can try out your game immediately in the editor, by pressing the play button - but can you edit Source code and it will be immediately applied without restarting…
Godot is smaller and has way way less learning material (and no Asset Store), but purely from an Editor perspective it's miles ahead from a dX perspective.
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What's the hook? The hook is you like to program in Ruby, so here is a game engine where you can use Ruby.
What makes ruby worth using for a game that makes this worth paying for over any other free, oss or commercial game engine with more flexibility in language and capability? No offense to ruby programmers but, Ruby's not necessarily the ideal language for game programming even when it comes to scripting languages. And...if you know ruby well enough to make a game, you could learn one of the many other languages better…
Apart from being Ruby, the simplicity is a major selling point for me.
(Yes, I have bought it, though not had time to use it much lately)
This looks like a fantastic dev experience and it's great to see this team building something like this. Indie game dev is near and dear to my heart. Unfortunately, HN tends to be full of haters. On the behalf of the rest of us, thanks for sharing DragonRuby!
> HN tends to be full of haters I'll stick up for the community: I don't think that's true. This submission has been heavily upvoted, after all. You may be running into the contrarian dynamic: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...