New game dropped - Super Space Smugglers: Rust + TIC-80 = 🚀❤️
In Super Space Smugglers you become a fugitive from planet Earth who tries to make a living by smuggling illegal things across planets - fly high, earn a lot & avoid getting caught!
Play it online here:
https://dzejkop.itch.io/super-space-smugglers
Super Space Smugglers is a game we've created in two days for TK Game Jam 2023 \- it's the first time we've used TIC-80 together with Rust (i.e. you compile Rust code to WASM and then TIC-80 executes it, providing sort of "syscalls" for drawing pixels, playing sounds etc.):
https://github.com/Dzejkop/super-space-smugglers
Overall, while development-wise there exist some rough edges (e.g. no backtraces when something goes awry), it was turbo fan to create - as compared to modern graphics APIs, there's something refreshing in being able to draw pixels simply by calling a function that draws a single pixel wherever you want it.
The code uses probably way too much unsafe (mostly due to static muts), but time constraints sometimes forbid implementing perfect designs!