Certainly looks that way.
Doing top-down physics is a different thing altogether.
According to the author of Chipmunk it's perhaps not yet entirely suited to top-down games, but it's not impossible to do.
This ruby tutorial touches on doing top down with chipmunk : http://code.google.com/p/gosu/wiki/RubyChipmunkIntegration
Doing top-down physics is a different thing altogether.
According to the author of Chipmunk it's perhaps not yet entirely suited to top-down games, but it's not impossible to do.
This ruby tutorial touches on doing top down with chipmunk : http://code.google.com/p/gosu/wiki/RubyChipmunkIntegration