Burn

A Handy Toolkit To Make .nes Application Written In Ruby DSL

Burn is a free and open source framework that allows you to create 8-bit flavored application(.nes) using Ruby DSL.

    scene do
      label "Hello, World!"
    end

Just like Recipe and Cookbook are DSL for Chef rubygem, this dead simple DSL is for Burn rubygem, and we call it Fuel. Burning this Fuel will produce this.

Here is another example. With Fuel DSL, you can even compose background music in 1 minute.

    scene do
      label "Hello, World!"
      play "openning"
    end

    music "openning" do
      tempo :allegro
      channel "piano" do
        segno
        g :dotted
        g :eighth, :staccato
        a :dotted
        a :eighth, :staccato
        dal_segno
      end
    end

Check the output from this(take note that it SOUNDS).

Would you like to design retro 8-bit graphics? Burn following Fuel, and you'll get this.

    declare do
      star <<-EOH
                    
           11       
           11       
          1111      
          1111      
    1111111111111111
     11111111111111 
      111111111111  
       1111111111   
        11111111    
        11111111    
        11111111    
       1111  1111   
       11      11   
      1          1  
                    
    EOH
    end
    
    scene do
      main_loop <<-EOH
        star.x=20
        star.y-=3
        sprite "star"
    EOH
    end

Creating 8-bit flavored application mean neither outdated nor cheap, but good fit to rapid prototyping. It could be one of best options for education purpose as well.

Moreover, the executables built with burn will work at almost any OS. That said, consequently, burn is a multi-platform programming environment.

For more information including More Fuel DSL examples can be found at README.md on our github project page.

Wish you enjoy.

github.com/remore/burn