This is my first project written in Rust. Happy for contributors and feedback!
Play Jungle Chess on an Emoji-Enabled Linux Terminal!
You can download binaries from the releases tab or build from source by cloning this repo and invoking cargo run --features="build-binary".
Running ./jungle-chess will start the 2-player local game.
Run ./jungle-chess --ai to play a bot match.
See ./jungle-chess --help for more info.
Each player tries to either:
- enter their opponent's Den (🏠).
- capture all opponent's pieces.
Player's play in turns. Each piece can move freely on the ground.
Every piece can capture another piece of equal or lower rank.
In order to capture a piece, the following hierarchy holds:
- Elephant (🐘)
- Lion (🦁)
- Tiger (🐯)
- Leopard (🐆)
- Wolf (🐺)
- Dog (🐕)
- Cat (🐱)
- Rat (🐭)
Whereas the Elephant cannot capture the Rat (🐭) , but the Rat (🐭) captures the Elephant (🐘).
The Rat (🐭) can not move to capture an Elephant (🐘) while emerging from water (🟦) see making a move.
Note, however, that if a piece is on an opponent's Trap (🥅), it can be captured by any piece.
Every piece moves freely on the grass (🟩).
The Rat (🐭) is the only piece that can enter water (🟦).
The Lion (🦁) and Tiger (🐯) can jump across the water (🟦) both horizontally and vertically, but only if the line is not blocked by a Rat (🐭).
No Piece can enter their player's den(🏠).
Naturally, a piece can only move onto an occupied square, if it can capture the occupant.
You can pull this as a dependency with cargo and write your own frontend, like i did with web-assembly.
Add to your Cargo.toml:
[dependencies]
jungle-chess = {git = "https://github.com/arnemileswinter/jungle-chess", tag = "v1.3.0"}