rustris VS bracket-lib

https://github.com/bwcpub/rustris for the code and etc

When I did Tetris in Rust, I used Piston - specifically the piston_window convenience functions. I was looking for something that was 2D only, and very simple.

When I did Tetris in Rust for fun, I went for a minimalist graphics library that would do just what I needed and nothing more. In my case, that pretty much meant just drawing squares. (Technically, rectangles. Since the "well" playfield is a rectangle. As is the grey background that "clears" the screen between frames.)

I think having to use a terminal is the scary part for many people. rltk/bracket-lib can be used to get a similar look and feel if that's what's important, but it is geared toward roguelikes.

Maybe bracket-lib from the amethyst authors? I‘m currently working through that book and find the library quite intuitive and simple to use. It started out as a toolkit for rouge-like games but has been getting more general. On that note, I recommend the hands-on-rust book which teaches rust concepts while building games with bracket-lib. As you have read the book, I‘m sure you would get through the first chapters quickly.

https://github.com/amethyst/bracket-lib has a great integration with Bevy, designed for exactly this sort of thing.

I've been doing some experiments with terminal based games and landed on https://github.com/amethyst/bracket-lib It's not exactly terminal based in the sense that it actually runs on OpenGL by default. But that's a plus imho because dealing with the bits of the terminal window that can change outside of your control (like fonts, window resize, etc) is a giant pita. It does let you swap the backend to run on crossterm if that's what you really want to do but if what you're after is the aesthetic like I am having bracket_lib handling all that makes life so much better.

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bracket-lib 👈🏻 (using this now)

Hi, If you are interested in console and roguelike there is a specialised engine made just for that called bracket-lib made by Herbert Wolverson. He also has a book called Hands On Rust that is an excilent introduction to rust game development where you make a roguelike dungeon crawler in Rust using bracket-lib. I am finishing the book now and I can fully recommend it.