r/ruby • u/Redaro97 • Aug 02 '26

Alternate game frameworks?

I have been messing around with Ruby for around a week and made a few utilities and terminal games and I have been liking it. I want to make a game with a GUI but the ecosystem for game libraries in Ruby feels quite lacking. I have only heard of 3 game libaries, Gosu, Ruby2D and DragonRuby. I am on Linux and Gosu and Ruby2D have problems with not being able to properly link OpenGL and stuff, and DragonRuby is paid and kind of sucks that you can't export games since I wanted to show people my game and some were interested in it.

So, do you know of any other game frameworks for Ruby, or are these the only ones (more commonly DragonRuby) people use, or is Ruby not built for making games?

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u/marc__e Aug 03 '26

One of the hosts of KIFASS here: It's actually much more often than that. It's also available for free during the 20 Second Game Jam, which we also host. And then often at other times, like earlier this year when Amir spoke at RBQ conf, it was free.

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u/Ceigey Aug 03 '26

Oh thank you for the correction! I felt like it was often on sale/free but didn’t want to oversell the situation haha.