A minimalist game framework in rust, inspired by PICO8.
Currently the best way is to fork this repo or make a branch and implement Game1. (We will improve this :) ).
The game frame rate is locked at 30fps. You can depend on this.
Sound is coming soon!
The resolution of the game is 128 x 128.
There is one spritesheet: sprites.png, you should edit / replace this with graphics you'd like to use in your game.
There is a camera method that you can use as a virtual camera. All the drawing commands can respect it (some are optional).
spr draws sprites from the spritesheet onto the screen. The convention is sprite 0 is the top left corner, it then
works its way accross and then down in 8x8 blocks. There are 16 tiles in each row and column.
print prints strings onto the screen. Currently only uppercase is supported. (We will fix this soon).
Currently mapping is very very simple. We have a default 256 x 256 map. To draw it use map. It is initialized the 0 sprite.
To modify the map, use mset. To check the map use mget. In the future we may want to add simple feature for loading
maps, or layering, but we also don't want to be too prescriptive. For now the game can do its own "loading" via mset.
Input is a, b, up, down, left, right. We can work on providing a mechanism to map these to controllers or different keys.
You acces input via the btn and btnp methods.
To run the project, use cargo run. If you want to distribute a build, cargo build (with release to strip debugging symbols).
Then copy the executable that was built along with the dlls copied into the folder by the build process. This should be a distributable folder that will run on a new machine.
Coming soon!