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Hands-On Game Development with Rust

Delve into Rust game development by building a complete game. Gain insights into Cargo, core functions, player management, and procedural map generation. Discover Rust's power and memory safety.
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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 start with a development environment in Cargo before exploring Rust’s core functions and building a variable data array. With this knowledge, you’ll build a complete game with player management, scorekeeping, and the various modules of a dungeon crawler. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to capture data, use it to build loops into your code that drive the game engine, update objects, and procedurally generate maps. You’ll have a hands-on understanding of Rust.
Rust is an exciting programming language that combines the power of C with modern memory safety, efficient concurrency, and vari...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.
Learn to design game in Rust.

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Content

1.

Getting Started

1 Lessons

Get familiar with Rust's power in game development, merging performance and memory safety.

3.

First Step With Rust

12 Lessons

Explore Rust development fundamentals through project creation, user input handling, and data management.

4.

Build Your First Game with Rust

12 Lessons

Apply your skills to develop a functional game with Rust, mastering game mechanics and state management.

5.

Build a Dungeon Crawler

11 Lessons

Take a closer look at designing and implementing dungeon crawlers, emphasizing modular code and dynamic maps.

6.

Compose Dungeon Denizens

12 Lessons

Tackle integrating ECS architecture with Rust, creating modular and scalable game entities.

7.

Take Turns with the Monsters

7 Lessons

Practice using an intent-based system for enhancing turn-based game mechanics and movement.

8.

Health and Melee Combat

9 Lessons

Try out implementing health and melee combat mechanics, HUD elements, and combat interactions.

9.

Victory and Defeat

8 Lessons

Get started with enhancing game dynamics by balancing victory and defeat for a rich experience.

10.

Fields of View

8 Lessons

Work your way through implementing fields of view and enhancing game entities' visibility mechanics.

11.

More Interesting Dungeons

10 Lessons

Apply your skills to create varied dungeon maps using procedural generation techniques and dynamic traits.

12.

Map Themes

6 Lessons

Solve problems in creating diverse map themes, implementing traits, and enhancing visual appeal in Rust game development.

13.

Inventory and Power Ups

7 Lessons

Tackle inventory systems, item design, power-ups, and pattern matching to enhance gameplay.

14.

Deeper Dungeons

7 Lessons

Master the steps to enhance player engagement by implementing deeper dungeons and tracking progress.

15.

Combat Systems and Loot

7 Lessons

Step through designing data-driven combat and loot systems for dynamic gameplay.

16.

Conclusion

1 Lessons

Get started with advanced game development after mastering Rust basics and creating games.

17.

Appendix

5 Lessons

Break apart Rust installation, development setup, game design docs, and key programming references.
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Every Educative lesson is designed by our in-house team of ex-MAANG software engineers and PhD computer science educators, and developed in consultation with developers and data scientists working at Meta, Google, and more. Our mission is to get you hands-on with the necessary skills to stay ahead in a constantly changing industry. No video, no fluff. Just interactive, project-based learning with personalized feedback that adapts to your goals and experience.

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