Porting Ruby/NCruses Rogue-Like to .NET and FlatRedBall

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Published on 2011-03-15T14:41:10Z Indexed on 2011/03/15 16:20 UTC
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I created an awesome rogue-like game in Ruby. For the GUI, I used NCurses. Since I'm using FlatRedBall as my engine of choice for Silverlight game development, I want to port this game over.

What is the best way to efficiently doing this, and what are the pitfalls I should expect?

For example, Ruby is object-oriented, like C#, and I should be able to just convert (rewrite) classes one by one. However, I will run into issues like:

  • NCurses API. I need to possibly create my own notions of a "Window", or else rewrite GUI code. It's one class, but it's BIG.
  • Mix-Ins. These are essentially aspect-oriented development. There are a couple of solutions in .NET, like dynamic classes.

What else? Also, I should mention that I want to create a C# application out of this. As much as possible, I'll dump reusable and helper code, algorithms, etc. into separate projects and generate reusable DLLs.

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