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Re: Building a Space Strategy Game with Ruby on Rails - Part I

lobo_tuerto — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 03:11:35 -0000

Hi, great article! I'm looking forward to learn about how are you going to implement the automated tick process. cron job maybe?

I didn't know you had another side covering the same articles :)
http://www.mnkyx.com/dev/

Re: Building a Space Strategy Game with Ruby on Rails - Part I

monkeyx — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:13:56 -0000

@gostyloi: Thanks for the compliments and you're welcome.

@Daniel: I'm sure there are lots of similar elements amongst a range of space strategy games out there. No plans on making this commercial so its probably not going to be an issue :)

Re: Building a Space Strategy Game with Ruby on Rails - Part I

Daniel — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:21:28 -0000

Looks like the game you are describing is Ogame (http://www.ogame.org/). Intellectual property issues are murky waters, tread with care!

Nevertheless, really interesting website. Keep it up.

Re: Building a Space Strategy Game with Ruby on Rails - Part I

gostyloj — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:57:03 -0000

Thank you for the depth of the post! I think that everyone needs a "back to the basics" read from time to time and this time it yielded fruit for me.

There was something missing in my game and after reading your post I finally grasped what it was. Something so basic and elemental and I had missed it.

I already had a decent sandbox for my players to use but I did not have any real points of conflict or, in my case, scarce resources. I am certain my game will be better for it.

Thanks again and good luck on your game!

Re: Building a Space Strategy Game with Ruby on Rails - Part I

Greg Willis — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:48:14 -0000

Hey there.

Cool post on building games using RoR. Have you checked out FiveRuns TuneUp? It's a free service we offer that helps with profiling and troubleshooting in the dev stage.

Check it out if you get a chance, we'd love to at least get your feedback. Here's a link - http://www.fiveruns.com/products/tuneup.

Cheers,

-gw