Recipes

Focused guides and snippets on how to accomplish specific functionality with DragonRuby Game Toolkit.

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DragonRuby GTK gives you a lot of the ingredients to make a delicious game, but sometimes you may want to reference a recipe on how to do something specific. Hopefully what's below helps you out. Suggestions are always welcome in Discord, as are contributions via GitHub.

• Customize the Engine
  Change the README, default font, and more when working with DragonRuby GTK.
• Debug Mode
  Improve your development experience by rendering additional info and supporting hotkeys.
• Efficient Input Checking
  Quickly check if multiple keys are down, pressed, or released.
• Enumerable
  Intermediate-to-advanced usages of methods when working with collections.
• Fullscreen
  Switch between windowed and fullscreen mode with ease while keeping track of the current state in DragonRuby GTK.
• Metadata
  Define and access metadata config values in your game.
• Working with Music
  How to play, pause, loop, mute, and control music.
• Prefer Hashes over Arrays for rendering
  Explore the advantages of using Hashes for rendering over Arrays.
• Renderstreams
  Pro feature for recording gameplay as data, which can then be replayed and exported as video.
• Sprite Reload
  Refresh all sprites in debug mode without having to restart the game.
• Spritesheet
  Rendering different sprites from the same image file with DragonRuby Game Toolkit.
• Testing
  How to write automated tests to verify the functionality of your game code with DragonRuby Game Toolkit.