Hands-On Game Development with Rust

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16h 35min

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This course includes

54 Playgrounds

14 Quizzes

This course includes

54 Playgrounds

14 Quizzes

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.

What You'll Learn

Learn to design game in Rust.

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

10.

Fields of View

8 Lessons

11.

More Interesting Dungeons

10 Lessons

12.

Map Themes

6 Lessons

13.

Inventory and Power Ups

7 Lessons

14.

Deeper Dungeons

7 Lessons

15.

Combat Systems and Loot

7 Lessons

16.

Conclusion

1 Lesson

17.

Appendix

5 Lessons

Course Author

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Evan Dunbar

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Front-end Developer

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Eric Downs

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Kenan Eyvazov

DevOps Engineer

Souvik Kundu

Front-end Developer

Eric Downs

Musician/Entrepeneur

Anthony Walker

@_webarchitect_

Emma Bostian 🐞

@EmmaBostian

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