Show HN: LightCycle, a FOSS game in Rust based on Tron

▲ Show HN: LightCycle, a FOSS game in Rust based on Tron(github.com)

47 points by DavidCanHelp 4 days ago | 11 comments

▲ AnyTimeTraveler 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

This readme could really benefit from a screenshot.

	▲	timeon 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Seems like Claude is not good at generating screenshots yet.
	▲	geerlingguy 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Came here to say the exact same thing. At a glance, is it 3D or 2D? Console game like snake or with color and sprites? Etc. Either screenshots or a gif would be nice.

▲ dfee 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Here's a recording of game play I made: https://imgur.com/Gy9mH57

Sorry if imgur sucks. I don't know a better option.

▲ DavidCanHelp 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Fixes Applied:

  1. AI Self-Crashing Bug - Increased collision buffer zones and improved trail detection
  2. Linux Dependencies - Added comprehensive installation instructions for Debian/Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch

  Improvements Made:

  - AI now skips 30 recent trail points (up from 10) to avoid self-collision
  - Increased look-ahead distances for all difficulty levels
  - Fixed trail collision detection in pathfinding
  - Added full Linux dependency documentation

  The AI should now survive much longer and provide a better challenge. And thank you for the two PR's!

▲ dvt 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Feels a bit more like Snake than Tron, but a very cool concept. Also quite impressed by the very readable 1000 lines of code. I've been writing a lot of Rust (various toy projects) for the past few years, but would love to do it for work at some point.

	▲	IFC_LLC 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Gee, I'm sorry, but this is just over my head. It takes over 282 crates to build this 1000 lines of code. It takes 1.3 gigs of space to display a window with a game on one's screen. And the AI does not work at all since it just crashes in itself. I'm not sure how this can be a good example of a program written in Rust. Rust is all about low-level optimized over-speedy small-sized binaries. Right now I see just a blob of something that barely works. And yes, Light Cycle is in fact just a version of a Snake with a different ruleset.

▲ nunobrito 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It was fun, on linux still had to install "sudo apt install libasound2-dev libudev-dev pkg-config build-essential"

Did some more fixes and then it was running. The game looks really fun but the AI player is always losing by himself too quickly.

▲ sigma02 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Kudos, but..

I did something similar in 6502 assembly a long while back and it fit into less than a kilobyte of code..

▲ avinassh 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is cool! The code base is small to follow easily and also TIL ggez.

In the single player mode, the computer is not so intelligent. So initially i just kept winning without understanding what was happening.

▲ ilaksh 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]