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.

1. Download the relevant OS version from Releases
2. Unzip
3. Run rustyhack_server from the command line
4. Run rustyhack_client from the command line
5. Connect client to server (note: if you're running both locally, just accept the default address/ports, and it will autoconfigure)
6. 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)

• 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

• 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

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.