Rubility (working title) – a game that teaches you (Ruby) programming

If you haven’t seen it on my Twitter or Buzz feed already, I started developing a game a couple of days ago that teaches you (Ruby) programming, first ‘announced’ here: http://www.google.com/buzz/HaiColon/g18YWVBJdE4/I-had-this-crazy-idea-yesterday-Rubility-working

It’s also a Domain Specific Language to easily write Ruby GUI applications, inspired by Shoes.

There’s a website for it now too: http://rubility.heroku.com

You can follow the development progress on the website or by following me in Google Buzz: http://www.google.com/profiles/HaiColon#buzz

I won’t post updates for this on this blog at the moment because I don’t want to spam the blog with too many updates, I’m posting new Rubility screenshots and talk about new features every day at the moment.

This doesn’t mean any of the other projects are on hold, updates to my other projects will follow soon

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Status update

Just a small status update since I haven’t posted in a while or updated any of my projects.

The reason for nothing happening, especially over the last 2 weeks is that I’m having a major headache so I can’t do a lot of work right now (not that easy to concentrate when your head explodes ^^). I’ve been on pain killers for a bit over 2 weeks now and the bad thing about pain killers is that you can only take so many a day and they only work for a couple of hours each. So usually I take one and try to get as much work done as possible until the effect wears off (which is just about 3 hours). It isn’t clear yet what the cause of the headache is, but hopefully that will be sorted out this week so that I can finally get some real work done.

On a happier note, I’ve finally got my hands on an iPod Touch (3G, 32 GB) a couple of days ago, yay!

It’s pretty awesome, the only bad thing I can say about it is that it would be better with two speakers like the PSP and that the battery time is awful when playing games. The battery lasts only about an hour and a half when playing 3D games and about 3 hours and a half when playing 2D games (I haven’t measured this myself, but that’s what the battery meter app says).

I haven’t been able to play that much with it (same reason as not getting much work done, headache) but I’ve played a couple of games for about 5 minutes each and I was surprised how good the touchscreen controls work.

This of course means that I’ll start developing some iPhone apps this year, which is why I mentioned this here I’ve developed Mac software for years and already started learning a bit about iPhone developing some time ago so I should be able to start right away. Well, after the headache is gone

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