smabbasht/invaders

A game written in rust

Invaders

Invaders is a naive rust re-built of classic space invaders game, It has voiceovers for fun in urdu to capture local context.

Setup

In order to play the game on your local machine, you should have rust installed. If you don't already have rust on your machine, please visit installation docs for instructions. A simple rustup installation would do the trick. For Unix-like OSes, you can run the command below to install rustup:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

After installing rust, you can play the game by following these steps:

git clone https://github.com/smabbasht/Invaders/
cd Invaders
cargo run --release

Game Logic

The game logic is simple. Just kill all the invaders through your ships shooting mechanism before any of them reaches your territory, invading your space.

Controls

Controls are pretty intuitive:

Key	Effect
Left	Move the spaceship left
Right	Move the spaceship right
Space or Enter	Shoot
q or Esc	Quit the Game, You lose in this case

Have fun!

Credits

• The voices are generated for free form the amazing tool PlayHT
• The game is heavily inspired from the Github Repo by Nathan Stocks. The game was essentially the final project for his course: Ultimate Rust Crash Course