Spacewars

About

Spacewar! is a 1962 space combat game created by Steve Russell and collaborators on MIT's DEC PDP-1 — regarded as one of the first video games and the first to be played across multiple computer installations. Spacewars is a from-scratch remake of Spacewar! built by a solo developer to learn the Rust programming language and the Amethyst game engine. Programming, art, and sound are all original work by the author, and it builds natively for Linux (as an AppImage) and Windows.

Getting started

Build from source on Linux by installing the listed system dependencies and running the project's release build task, or on Windows by first setting up the SDL2 dependency before building.

History

The project began as a personal exercise to learn Rust and the Amethyst game engine, using Spacewar! — one of the first video games ever made — as the target to reimplement.

Licensing & legal

• Licensed under GPLv3; background music tracks are separately credited under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial licenses.