LittleCoder

So far there is very little here, but I'd like to think that all great predicaments were solved with at the beginning what seemed like very little.

If you've got Windows, you're going to want to download this thing and play with it. Have a look at main.rb, and or the docs. It'll be fun, I promise.

What we've got here is a modern graphics app (DX9) with an embedded Ruby interpreter. Our crack team of scientists has done some important research and it turns out that programming DirectX is painful and fraught with massive lossage. Kids can't program simple graphics on their computers anymore.

We're here to try and change that.

Starting today, we can write Ruby that makes attractive graphics. Starting today, DirectX looks like a retained mode tile renderer, programmable in Ruby, that plays sounds.

We can make pictures show up with one line of code. We can make funny noises with one line of code. At the same time, there's some depth to it.

You can make code run every frame to do animations, and you can respond to mouse and keyboard input, all simply.

So, come on. Let's play.

Download:

LittleCoder-0.4.zip

Documentation and Ideas:

docs.html
Ideas 1 - Drawing Stuff
Ideas 2 - Making Noises

Plea:

At this early stage, any feedback is extremely valuable. Remember the little graph with the P's and the Q's, and that line... Right... Highly desirable. Thanks.

hhausman ({at}) gmail.com


All Releases (some of these are old):

LittleCoder-0.4.zip
Mouse support! Tile Properties! Better Docs!
LittleCoder-0.3.zip
No more single sound limitation!
LittleCoder-0.2.zip
First Release Evar!