Checkers written in Rust and exported to WASM

by keepamovin • 1 year ago

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keepamovin3• 1 year ago

Bunch of cool games are here: https://kevinalbs.com/#!games

I was about to comment saying it was broken and forces you to jump. But it turns out I've just been playing checkers wrong my whole life.

maxnoe• 1 year ago

All checkers games I ever played started with a long negotiation about the rules...

wiktor-k• 1 year ago

Exactly. I was surprised that this one doesn't support multi capture when available.

vlovich1233• 1 year ago

There’s a lot of different checkers variants.

eyelidlessness• 1 year ago

I guess I have too? So has everyone I’ve ever played with.

kevinAlbs2• 1 year ago

I believe I referenced https://wcdf.net/rules.htm for rules. I had these questions myself when writing the game. Updated the README to link to the intended rules.

Blackarea• 1 year ago

You got the src on github or something? Am learning rust myself and it seems like a neat little sample project

millerm2• 1 year ago

There’s a link on the page of the game.

hackyhacky• 1 year ago

Source here: https://github.com/kevinAlbs/checkers

bsaul2• 1 year ago

it got locked after 10 moves or something like that (firefox browser). I couldn't move anything no matter where i clicked (and i was far from the end of the game)

EDIT : sorry, seems like i probably had to make a forced jump move, which i didn't know was a thing.

EDIT 2 : aren't you supposed to be able to capture in reverse direction ?

amelius• 1 year ago

For me it locked after 1 move. But then I found out that I was also playing for the opponent.

keepamovin3• 1 year ago

I like how these engineers think they found a bug but were actually just beaten by the correct implementation of the rules of checkers hahaha

kaoD• 1 year ago

aren't you supposed to be able to capture in reverse direction ?

Only after promotion.

bool3max• 1 year ago

checke(rs)

imtany• 1 year ago

Please rename to checke.rs :D

swiftcoder• 1 year ago

I thought this was going to be a type checker :)

dhosek• 1 year ago

You’re not alone

stabbles• 1 year ago

Can't take backwards, looks like a bug.

MyOutfitIsVague2• 1 year ago

If your piece isn't a king, capturing backwards isn't legal.

littlestymaar2• 1 year ago

Only if you aren't using the metric system ;)

jasonthorsness• 1 year ago

I like the attribute-based approach to wasm bindings in rust, it keeps it clean and to one file, and refreshing how you just have a plain HTML file and just instantiate the module with

import init, { Checkers } from "./pkg/checkers.js";

J_Shelby_J• 1 year ago

I wish the Rust web frameworks were this simple. I mean, they're not insane, but they're just really complex due to all of the use cases they support. Dioxus needs a "lite" mode.

zeristor• 1 year ago

Oh, you mean Draughts, I thought this was some sort of parser

kevinAlbs2• 1 year ago

Hello, original author here. I was delightedly surprised to see this game got attention. I believe I referenced https://wcdf.net/rules.htm when writing the game. The game has been updated. If a piece is clicked and has no moves, pieces with moves are briefly highlighted.

Checkers written in Rust and exported to WASM

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