Hands-On Game Development with Rust

Advanced

131 Lessons

16h 35min

Certificate of Completion

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Explanations

This course includes

54 Playgrounds

14 Quizzes

82 Illustrations

This course includes

54 Playgrounds

14 Quizzes

82 Illustrations

Course Overview

Rust is an exciting programming language that combines the power of C with modern memory safety, efficient concurrency, and various productivity boosters. With its low-level memory access and high-level support of functional programming, Rust improves power and performance while providing protection against common bugs. In this course, you’ll learn Rust with a hands-on, project-based approach through game development. You’ll be introduced to Rust as you design and build a complete, playable game. You’ll st...Show More

What You'll Learn

Learn to design game in Rust.

Learn Rust's built-in functions.

Practical experience with Rust.

Understanding of game development.

Course Content

Getting Started

Introduction

Rust and Your Development Environment

Managing Projects with Cargo

Creating Your First Rust Program Using Cargo to Build, Check, or Run our Project Finding Common Mistakes with Clippy Package Management with Cargo Quiz: Test Yourself on Rust Basics Exercise: Introduce Yourself Solution: Introduce Yourself

First Step With Rust

Introduction to First Step with Rust Capturing User Input Moving Input to a Function Rust's Built-in Functions Storing Strings in an Array Grouping Data with Structs Searching with Iterators using Structs Storing a Variable Amount of Data with Vectors Categorizing with Enumerations Quiz: Test Yourself on First Step with Rust Exercise: Making a Phone Book Solution: Making a Phone Book

Build Your First Game with Rust

Introduction to First Game with Rust Understanding the Game Loop Bracket-Lib and Bracket-Terminal Hello, Bracket Terminal!Creating Different Game Modes Managing the Player Adding the Player Creating Obstacles Keeping Score and Obstacle State Quiz: Test Yourself on Build Your First Game with Rust Exercise: Hello Game Loop Solution: Hello Game Loop

Build a Dungeon Crawler

Introduction to Build a Dungeon Crawler Design a Dungeon Crawler Game Dividing Code Into Modules Organizing Imports with a Prelude Storing the Dungeon Map Adding the Adventurer Building a Dungeon Graphics, Camera, Action Quiz: Test Yourself on Building a Dungeon Crawler Exercise: Make Cats Meow and Dogs Bark Solution: Make Cats Meow and Dogs Bark

Compose Dungeon Denizens

12 Lessons

Take Turns with the Monsters

7 Lessons

Health and Melee Combat

9 Lessons

Victory and Defeat

8 Lessons

Fields of View

8 Lessons

More Interesting Dungeons

10 Lessons

Map Themes

6 Lessons

Inventory and Power Ups

7 Lessons

Deeper Dungeons

7 Lessons

Combat Systems and Loot

7 Lessons

Conclusion

1 Lesson

Appendix

5 Lessons

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