diodesign / rustinvaders

3D Space Invaders game in Rust

Rustinvaders

This is a simple 3D game written in Rust, and inspired by the arcade classic Space Invaders. This was created purely for fun while taking my first steps in graphics and games programming. It uses the extremely handy Kiss3D engine.

Obligatory screenshot

Building

I recommend building this in an official Debian-based Rust Docker container with the following extra packages installed: xorg-dev libglu1-mesa-dev

Make sure you have the above in place, checkout this project's code from GitHub, compile, and run using:

git clone https://github.com/diodesign/rustinvaders.git
cd rustinvaders
cargo run --release

Playing

Press z to move to the left, x to go right, Return to fire. You can only have one bullet on screen at a time: that's a deliberate restriction to keep the gameplay faithful to the original. The aliens also drop bombs, and speed up as you destroy more of them - again, like the original. If you're hit by an alien or one of their bombs, you'll lose a life. You have three lives until it's game over. If the aliens manage to get below your ship, it's immediately game over.

Feedback

This is a work in progress - there are many little things to add and improve. If you have any suggestions, patches, complaints, etc, then submit an issue or pull request, or try emailing me. Cheers for taking an interest.