https://github.com/steveklabnik/ludum

My entry for Ludum Dare 35
https://github.com/steveklabnik/ludum

engine game ludum rust

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My entry for Ludum Dare 35

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/steveklabnik/ludum
• Owner: steveklabnik
• Created: 2016-04-16T01:11:24.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2016-04-17T21:39:47.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-10T20:19:25.257Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: engine, game, ludum, rust
• Language: Rust
• Size: 63.5 KB
• Stars: 13
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 9
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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# Ludum

My entry for Ludum Dare 35.

So, I ended up writing an interactive game engine, which I call “Ludlum”, and

then a game written in that engine, which I have titled “A Game.”

This is my first LD, and I’ve wanted to do it for a long time. However, since

it’s my first, and I didn’t even know that I was going to participate until

shortly before I got started, so I decided to pick something I’ve been doing

since I was a kid: text adventures, or “interactive fiction”, as they tend to

be called nowadays.

It’s a short game, but I decided to go meta: it’s a game loosely based on my

childhood, where you learn about programming games. “Transform”, the theme, is

more alluded to than it is direct: this is a game about how my own life was

transformed by computers.

Furthermore, I wrote the game in Rust, the programming language I work on as my

day job. It was a ton of fun. I picked a terminal library that apparently

doesn’t work with Windows, though, so that’s unfortunate. It should work on

Linux and Mac OS X.

You can build the game yourself. First, [install

Rust](https://www.rust-lang.org/downloads.html). Then, 

install with Cargo:

```bash

$ cargo install ludum

```

Then, make sure you have the `Game.toml` file:

https://github.com/steveklabnik/ludum/blob/master/Game.toml

Run `ludum` from that directory, and the game should start.

If you don’t have Rust installed, binary releases are on [the Releases

page](https://github.com/steveklabnik/ludum/releases).