custom made C++/SDL engine with Ruby scripting, yeah. It would probably not be worth the trouble of polishing it up for release.
No problem, thanks for responding. I use something similar with Lua myself. Out of curiosity, what did you use for the Ruby embedding? The only option I know of for that is mruby, but I'm not sure that was around back in the day.
this? https://silverhammermba.github.io/emberb/embed/
Thanks, don't know how I didn't see that before. That seems to cover everything I'd need.