Game Development in Rust

A few projects of game development exploring gameplay inspired by the game SnakeBird. I was attracted to learn Rust. I was drawn to its strong type system and elegant syntax. Since making games was my strongest expertise, I played around with the Bevy game engine which I found really usable with an elegant component entity system.

I started with simple terminal games and then explored gameplay inspired by the game SnakeBird. What interested me about this game is that it has a grid logic, like the original snake game, but it also has smooth movement. It's an interesting challenge since the game logic and state is in a discrete grid but we interpolate movements so it feels smooth.

I first implemented a clone of SnakeBird in 2D, replicating the same gameplay, including undo/redo and simple physics. Two of the most interesting systems are the undo/redo system and the renderer used to render the snakes.

Then I extended this game to work in 3D, incorporating novel gameplay ideas on top of the SnakeBird gameplay.