With the release of v6.0, Ludam Dare 56 kicking off, and Rocky Mountain Ruby 2024 around the corner, DragonRuby Game Toolkit is free the next few days

DragonRuby Hits v6.0

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2024-10-27 06:00:04

With the release of v6.0, Ludam Dare 56 kicking off, and Rocky Mountain Ruby 2024 around the corner, DragonRuby Game Toolkit is free the next few days.

As an indie game dev, releasing cross-platform, and I mean every platform (PC, Mac, Linux, Web, Steam, Steam Deck, and Mobile) is so important for commercial success.

We’ve come to believe that releasing to all platforms from day one is too much work. And this is true given that established engines put the burden of dealing with platform fragmentation on our shoulders.

Cross-platform to them means “we’ll create a binary for you that may or may not work”. This is usually tested in the eleventh-hour, and often found to be false. It sucks to be put into a position where you have to deal with platform fragmentation days away from a release.

This is why DragonRuby was created. To be an engine that lets game devs focus on their game, knowing that it will look and behave the same everywhere without needing platform-specific hacks or workarounds.