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Steve Andrews from Guernsey

After being distracted writing a C# client for LCoG I’ve finally had time to restart development on my roguelike game.  I’m writing it in Ruby and instead of using the traditional Ncurses approach for the UI I’ve opted for a tile-based implementation using the fantastic libgosu.
I’ve got the basic framework pretty much complete including field [...]

OS/X comes with Ruby 1.8.6 pre-installed which is brilliant but updating it not so straightforward, also anyone attempting a gem update -system will end up with a lovely broken system. To fix this and since Ruby 1.9 is so much faster here’s a short guide on how to clean up your system and end [...]