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I have been experimenting a bit with various Ruby game libraries recently, and I think that I have found my favourite. I would like to present to you ... Gosu Official Website: http://www.libgosu.org I am not affiliated with Gosu in any way, I just really liked it, and wanted to share it with you as well! Why Gosu? Out of the many ruby game libraries that I have been testing - RGSS3, RubyGame, rubysdl; to be specific - I feel that Gosu is the better library on several aspects. Flexibility and Simplicity I felt that Gosu was the simplest (next to RGSS) while still leaving a lot of room for flexibility, while still being a quite powerful library. It only has 9 classes (in the Ruby bindings), but I feel, that is really all you would need to make a good game. Plus, Gosu's design integrates well with other ruby libraries, for when it isn't powerful enough. Opensource RGSS3 is really the only non-opensource library I had been working with, but it's definitely a benefit. Being opensource, a lot more people are working together on keeping Gosu bug-free, and it means you have access to the source code as well. Multiplatform That's right, it works on Linux, Windows AND Mac OS X! 'Nuff said. Still Active Unfortunately, RubyGame's activity seems to have hit a standstill (although it is opensource as well, so that doesn't mean it's the end of it just yet) and rubysdl seems to be slightly less active (however, this could mean that it is simply just THAT bugfree xD), nonetheless, Gosu seems to have the most active development out of these libraries I mentioned. (source: https://www.ruby-too.../game_libraries ) So, if you are handy with ruby, and if RGSS just isn't enough for you. I suggest you give Gosu a whirl! The concepts are a bit different than RGSS, but there are plenty of resources to get started! Gosu Official Website: http://www.libgosu.org/ Gosu Ruby Reference: http://www.libgosu.org/rdoc/ Gosu Wiki: https://github.com/jlnr/gosu/wiki/ Getting Started Windows: https://github.com/j...rted-on-Windows Linux: https://github.com/j...tarted-on-Linux Mac OS X: https://github.com/j...Started-on-OS-X Gosu Ruby Tutorial: https://github.com/j...i/Ruby-Tutorial Gosu Source Code: https://github.com/jlnr/gosu Looks like I went a bit overboard on the links... well, just for fun here's some more More info on RubyGame: http://rubygame.org/ More info on RubySDL: http://www.kmc.gr.jp...rubysdl.en.html