Hands-on Rust: Effective Learning through 2D Game Development and Play (PragProg)

I’ve had this book’s sales page open and have been looking for the buy button for two days! I’ve got so many questions!

  • Is it correct that this book includes a basic flappy bird clone and then most of the book is devoted to a single dungeon crawler?

  • Does it use libtcod like this (great) Rust-based roguelike tutorial I’ve gone through?

  • Is the resulting dungeon crawler WASM-compatible? One thing I really wished after building my first Rust roguelike was that I could have shared it on a web site.

  • How much does the book lean on higher-level libraries for the graphics and I/O?

  • Does the dungeon crawler use an ECS?

Thanks so much for making a Rust book on games!

Edit: I just realized that you’re the one behind bracketproductions.com and that your ECS-based roguelike tutorial was recommended to me as a next step by the author of the tutorial I did. Really looking forward to your book!

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