http://jay.mcgavren.com/zyps A game library for Ruby Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:37:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en With this release, the Zyps project welcomes a new contributor, Jim Vallandingham. New features: Clock now lets you speed up or slow down global time. A corresponding control has been added to the GUI. New actions - SpawnAction, ShootAction, ExplodeAction. These should make it easy to build a 2D shooter game now. A new ... http://jay.mcgavren.com/zyps/archives/58 Behavior#perform changed to call start(), do() on all actions if no Conditions specified. do() for all actions changed to allow empty target list. Turn action now unconditional in GUI. Added WrapAround to environmental factors. http://jay.mcgavren.com/zyps/archives/54 This version offers considerable speed improvements, thanks to better caching of distance and angle calculations and a simple scheduler for Behaviors. http://jay.mcgavren.com/zyps/archives/44 Re-added 'click here' message to GUI. Trails mode didn't play nice with resizing or messages, so removed it. Brightened default creature color in GUI. http://jay.mcgavren.com/zyps/archives/43 This release of Zyps makes several additions to the GUI, including the ability to save your environment and re-load it later. http://jay.mcgavren.com/zyps/archives/42 In this version, window resize bugs (especially on OS X) should be fixed. http://jay.mcgavren.com/zyps/archives/41 This is a major release for Zyps. Most important is the switch from the Ruby-GNOME2 to WxRuby, which is available as a gem. This means no more manual installation of dependencies before you can run the Zyps GUI. (And a nice little rendering speed boost, too.) Behaviors now act upon all ... http://jay.mcgavren.com/zyps/archives/40 James Britt got Ruby-GNOME2 running on KUbuntu, and shared his steps to do so: Set 1: get the ruby-gnome source and unpack. You get a directory tree like this: james@xxx:~/ruby-gnome2-all-0.16.0$ lt total 220 -rw-r--r-- 1 james james 3473 2007-11-11 09:39 AUTHORS -rw-r--r-- 1 james james 3765 2007-11-11 09:39 README -rw-r--r-- ... http://jay.mcgavren.com/zyps/archives/39 Added BreedAction. BreedAction now creates deep copies of behaviors, and children half the size of parents. Merged zyps_server functions with zyps. Push/pull strength reduced to 100. Added clear environment button to GUI. All actions split into separate Behaviors in GUI. http://jay.mcgavren.com/zyps/archives/37 zyps/remote library added. Some EnvironmentalFactors work better with zyps_server now. http://jay.mcgavren.com/zyps/archives/36