Welcome brave individual who wants to learn more about programming in Ruby.  I am GubiD and I will be attempting to teach you the Ins and Outs of RGSS, which applies to both RMXP and RMVX.    This if the first tutorial of a series of tutorials aimed to help people who have little to no programming experience, but can be used as a guide and help for all that are interested.

What is RGSS?

RGSS(Ruby Game Scripting Source) is a scripting language based on Ruby.  Ruby was created by Yukihiro Matsumoto and is a fully object-oriented(OO) language.  You can find more information about ruby from their official website at http://www.ruby-lang.org.

Using RGSS in your game will help you take it to the next level and beyond if you really want.  The only draw back to Ruby versus other languages is, in my opinion, that Ruby is slower.  Obviously this is because it is a scripting language, which is always slower compared to compiled languages.   Anyway, I feel that is enough on this.  Lets get onto actually learning something useful!

Understanding the Basics

To understand the basics of programming in ruby or any other language for that matter.  You need to get a grip of the lingo and usage of a number of things.  To do this, I am actually going to send you elsewhere.  I feel that their tutorial is more than adequate to get you to understand the basics and will save me from typing a novel.  Plus its funny!  So for this section, please read the first 4 chapters of Why’s Poignant Guide to Ruby which can be found at http://poignantguide.net/ruby/chapter-1.html.   Once you have completed reading this, this is where we will start the next section.  Writing code for RPG Maker!

Writing code for RPG Maker

First I want you to stop, go get a drink and roll up your sleeves.   There is going to be a rather steep learning curve here, but just remember.  Stick with it and you will understand.

About the author

I am me. Just a single person amungst the masses searching for something more out of life.