This project is an implementation of the classic Snake game, probably most prominently found on 90's-era Nokia cell phones. The twist is that it is written in the Rust programming language, and also that it still manages to run in your browser! This is achieved through the magic of WebAssembly.
This projects serves multiple purposes:
- I wanted to familiarize myself with compile-to-WASM technology.
- I wanted a small game project that I could actually complete in a reasonable amount of time.
- When it is complete, it can also serve as a playground to try out a few things on it, both gameplay- and presentation-wise.
If you want to play around with this on your machine, you will need the following things:
- A Node.js installation, including npm
- An installation of the Rust programming language, including Cargo
Unfortunately, I can't give you exact version requirements for these, since the build is currently only tested on my machine. Just make sure your Node.js setup is reasonably modern, and for Rust, you are probably going to need the nightly toolchian, as I currently do not flinch from using unstable features. 😉
If you have rustup installed,
which is the recommended way to install Rust,
you can just say
rustup override set nightly
and the build process we are about to start should do the right thing.
With all this out of the way, you should be able to run
npm install
to install further dependencies of the Node.js-based build process.
Finally, you can run
npm start
which starts a local development server,
usually on http://localhost:8080,
which will automatically rebuild the project
on any change to its source files.
Licensed under either of
- Apache License, Version 2.0, (see LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
- MIT license (see LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
at your option.
SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 OR MIT
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.