A simple (I mean really simple) TUI maze with procedurally generated maps using the DFS algorithm. The only objective of the game is to get out
Firstly, you will need Rust installed (refer to Rust's docs for instructions).
Then clone the repo:
git clone https://github.com/TheTS-labs/the-cage.git
cd the-cage
And run:
cargo run -r
- Tab to toggle debug menu
- Esc to close the game
- W, A, S, D for character movement
Contains some useful information about the window size, the size of the maze (in this example its 28x28 nodes) and its seed, character's position (in Pixel coordinates) and also performance counters such as FPS and time in milliseconds spend per frame
Upon starting the game it picks random u64 via rand::thread_rng(). Oh also, cool fact, I didn't implement inputting arbitrary seed (definitely on purpose, of course) so good luck without save files, if you close the game you will probably never find this maze ever again.
Character will start at the (random) starting point of the DFS algorithm (which I set to be only the 1/3 of the maze on the left) and the exit will be on the right on the same X level as character but flipped to make it more painful :)
Some words about winning: the maze is considered defeated not when character touches the green line, but rather by stepping on right X coordinate because you can't be there without beating the maze anyway
As ratatui uses f64 coordinates I tried use them. Which didn't work out because terminal is still just characters after cumulative changes f64 coordinate might be in between characters forcing to ratatui to choose on of them resulting in deformed shapes. So I came up with pixel coordinates, using HalfBlocks as marker I have practically individual "pixels" (y coordinate has double as much pixels than x because of characters being two HalfBlocks by the way). And definitive difference between real coordinates and pixel coordinates is in type f64 and u16 respectively