Announcing: Colonize!
Published:After a long hiatus on my video game development projects, I've decided to resume my progress by starting a new game - Colonize (working title).
The game is mostly meant to be a learning experience in roguelike development for a friend and I, and to serve as a base for a project we can later build upon.
Our vision for the game is a game similar to Dwarf Fortress - i.e. a roguelike in real-time and with little user interation in the direct actions of the characters.
Here's a breakdown of the basic idea for the game:
- Written in Rust
- Using the tcod-rs bindings for the libtcod library.
- Using the Piston game engine and libraries for the back-end.
- ASCII graphics to start, possibly move to a tileset later.
- 3D voxel map, procedurally generated, displayed in a top-down (i.e. birds-eye) style view (similar to dwarf-fortress) with the ability to scroll between layers in the Y-axis.
- Large world, loaded as cubic chunks
Currently, I've written a backend for Piston to work with libtcod, and called it tcod_window.
Using tcod_window, following some tutorials, and taking inspiration from similar projects I've managed to get a basic menu rendering and an initial chunk to load.
The current progress is summarized in this webm.
Update (2020-10-27): Fixed broken libtcod link.