tildeio/learning-rust

Learning Rust via Ruby

A text-based adventure game being built in Rust and Ruby (simultaneously)

If you want to play it:

1. clone this repository
2. cd into it (i.e. enter cd learning-rust in your terminal)
3. for the Ruby version: enter ruby lib/main.rb in your terminal and hit return. For the Rust version: enter cargo run in your terminal and hit return
4. play :)

The actual narrative still needs to be ported over & some prettifying still needs to happen, but you can play a super simplistic placeholder game right now. Both games should basically work at this point, but please submit an issue if you notice something's broken! The Ruby side seems to be especially fragile.

Built mostly by @lbaillie with help from @wycats

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Check out the issues for what's currently needed and comment on any issue you might be interested in. I'm happy to help guide you if you need help :D

learning-rust's Issues

Fix Ruby Game.take and Player.remove_from_inventory

Ruby Game.take and Player.remove_from_inventory methods don't break anymore, but NPC/Player inventory item is not removed (should be removed). This bug allows players to keep taking the same items from the same NPCs and using them over and over. Not the end of the world, but not great.

Add tests

There are some very outdated tests on the Rust side and zero tests on the Ruby side. Should probably just write tests from scratch at this point, for both sides. Any tests at all would be great! I've tried to figure out how to test console output specifically but haven't figure out a solution yet.

Make real maps!

Make the map in both games an actual map and not just a list of room names. This means some sort of printed display that shows the room layout and maybe the room name inside.

Format Rust game more neatly

Currently for things like look around we kind of just spit out the available objects and it's pretty ugly.

This room contains: [InventoryItem { count: 1, name: "dog potion", effects: "this potion has turned you into a C00L d0g!" }]

Yuck! Make it look more like:

This room contains 1 dog potion.

Add an actual story, not just placeholders

This is one is definitely on me, but writing it here so I don't forget!