Hi everyone, I've just put out another release of my pet open source project called Squib.
Squib is a Ruby DSL for prototyping card and board games. Write a little bit of Ruby, define your deck's stats, then compile your game into a series of images ready for print-and-play or even print-on-demand. Squib is very data-driven and built on the principle of Don't Repeat Yourself. Think of it like nanDeck done "the Ruby way". Squib supports:
- A concise set of rules for laying out your cards
- Loading PNGs and SVGs
- Complex text rendering using Pango
- Reading
xlsxandcsvfiles - Rendering to PNGs, PDFs, and SVGs (sheets or individual files)
- Flexible, data-driven layouts in Yaml
- Basic shape drawing, blending operators, gradients, etc.
- Unit conversion
- The full power of Ruby!
Squib is based on the Cairo graphics rendering engine, the library of choice for WebKit, Gecko, Inkscape and many, many others.
http://andymeneely.github.io/squib/ https://github.com/andymeneely/squib
The latest version, v0.6.0 is my 13th release since July 2014.
Also, on BGG we've seen a bunch of early adopters who are already posting some neat showcases: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/article/18495529
Hope you like it!
