Link to the Github project.

As part of my Rust journey, I decided it would be good idea to write something fun. But I knew better than to try to make an ambitious 3D project work. I don't have time like this poor guy to make something really, really impressive with my new language. So I decided to make a TUI game. Connect Four seemed to fit the bill really well.

I'm writing this a bit after development on my Connect Four project has concluded, cause I've been working on a lot of projects lately and am trying desperately to get them on my blog to show off. 😉

Here's the final result.

🔗Features

• Local multiplayer
• Colors...? Yep.

🔗Development

As you can see from the git history, I did the bulk of this work in April and May of 2023. I had some knowledge, but was by no means a pro Rust developer when I began. Now, I've made a lot of progress.

I used crossterm, which proved to be both powerful and not too tricky to use. I will definitely consider using crossterm again if I develop another game for the terminal.

🔗What about Single Player?

This version doesn't have an AI you can play against or remote multiplayer - yet!

Actually, in version 0.3.0 I want to add a remote multiplayer feature. I've actually been working on a chat application to get used to serde and message passing over sockets in Rust before I implemented this. (Article, as always, "coming soon").

As a side note, I used t-rec to record this demo. It is built in Rust and was very easy to use. It also elided all the still frames together to reduce file size.