Creating a Project | Learn Game Development in Rust

Creating a Project

To start our game, let's create a new Rust project. Run the following commands:

cargo new <your-project-name>cd <your-project-name>

This will create a new directory with your project name. The second command enters that directory.

Cargo will create a default project that can print the text "Hello, world!". Let's see that in action with the cargo run command:

$ cargo runCompiling <your-project-name> v0.1.0 (/path/to/your-project-name)Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.25sRunning `target/debug/your-project-name`Hello, world!

On the right, you'll see the same project that cargo creates by default. Click on the files to view each one.

Assets

In addition to the default files, there is also an assets folder that contains some images we'll need for our game. For your convenience, you can download the entire folder at once by clicking on assets.zip.

These assets are provided for free from their author on their website. See the links below for more information.

They have very generously released many other free assets as well for anyone to use in their projects. Creating art like this takes time and effort, so please consider supporting them by buying some of their paid assets as well. All of their assets are drawn in the same style and work very well together.

.gitignore
Cargo.toml
src/main.rs
assets/bardo.png
assets/darkdimension.png
assets/reaper.png

assets
src
- main.rs
.gitignore
assets.zip
Cargo.toml

/target
**/*.rs.bk

[package]
name = "game-tutorial"
version = "0.1.0"
authors = ["Sunjay Varma <[email protected]>"]
edition = "2018"

[dependencies]

fn main() {
    println!("Hello, world!");
}