snowkeep / rovcommand

Rust ROV programming game - like Robocode, but in Rust/Dyon with Submarines

ROV Command

This will be a programming game written in Rust, with Conrod as the GUI. You will be programming a Remote Operated Vehicle, either a submarine or surface vessel, most like in Dyon. It is heavily influenced by Robocode and Scalatron.

Current status:

• switched to glium backend from piston_window
• project compiles
• there is a very basic UI layout, with nothing in it

Plans:

• surface vehicle

  • moves faster than submarine
  • has gun, depth charge, radar (surface), sonar (subsurface) and flak
  • causes much damage, and sustains little damage on head on ram

• submarine

  • moves slower than surface vehicle on water
  • moves slower submerged than on surface
  • has gun (surface) and torpedos (submerged), radar (surface), sonar (subsurface)
  • nearby depth charge explosion is lethal
  • cannot be seen when submerged, not moving and not firing
  • can be found by sonar when moving or firing torpedos
  • when submerged, can find other submerged sub by ping - gives up location
  • causes much damage, and sustains medium damage on head on ram

• torpedos

  • cause much more damage than guns
  • can be tracked by sonar and stopped by flak

• guns

  • cannot be tracked or seen
  • cause much less damage than torpedoes

• shoals, islands

  • block sonar
  • maybe block radar

• energy budget (see Scalatron)

  • all vessels have a fixed energy budget
  • all movement, firing, surfacing and submerging, and damage reduces budget

Design details:

• I hope to decouple the simulation engine from the GUI to enable
  • possible web GUI (see scalatron)
  • client/server model for multiple players
• ROV coding:
  • main target is Dyon (I may change my mind)
  • native rust, compiled to .so should be possible

Other thoughts:

• lua, javascript plugin
• some kind of graphical programmming, like blockly