Let’s build the 2048 game with Rust

Welcome back! Rust is an awesome programming language that can almost build anything, so let’s build out a game with this language. The specific game we’ll be building in this walkthrough is 2048, a very popular number game. Now, this entire project has been built out and hosted on GitHub, to jump straight to the project, check out the link below (please give the original coder of this game all of the credit):

GitHub - coeuvre/rust-2048: A 2048 clone with Piston game engine

Starting off, this project is broken down in a few different files, we have assets folder, as the src folder that holds all of our Rust files:

This Rust files are integral in building out our project:

To jump straight to the Rust files, check out the link below:

rust-2048/src at master · coeuvre/rust-2048

We should be ready to build out this project, we want to start off by installing cargo:

GitHub - rust-lang/cargo: The Rust package manager

You will also need to make sure you have the following installed as well: