Rustyhack MMO

A barebones cross between an ASCII "roguelike" and MMORPG / MUD written in Rust. Lacking a lot of basic features. It currently has a client & server console program that allows a player to be created, move around, fight other players/monsters, pick up and drop things, look at things, and level up.

Usage

Download the relevant OS version from Releases
Unzip
Run rustyhack_server from the command line
Run rustyhack_client from the command line
Connect client to server (note: if you're running both locally, just accept the default address/ports, and it will autoconfigure)
By default, the server will back up to rustyhack_server_world_backup.json every 60 seconds, and will attempt to load from this on start (if it exists)

Controls

Movement: ← ↑ → ↓ Arrow keys
Combat: Move into enemy
Commands:
- L - Look around you
- P - Pick up item underneath you
- D - Drop item
- U - increase stat points after level up
- M - change map when standing on map exit location
Quit: Ctrl-q

Components

rustyhack_client - contains all the client code
rustyhack_server - contains all the server code
rustyhack_lib - contains modules that are shared between both client and server
assets - assets required for the server to run, note: assets directory must be in the same location as rustyhack_server

Assets

Currently, the following functionality is defined entirely by text or json files located in the assets directory:

maps - .map plain-text - Map definitions. All maps should be enclosed by a boundary of # characters in any shape, and end with a % character on the last line. See existing examples.
map_exits - .json - Map exit locations, and where they lead.
monsters - .json - Types of monsters, their stats and inventory etc.
spawns - .json - Spawn locations of monsters. There should be one spawn file per map.

Building from source