term-slots-rs

Spin the slots, pick the cards and play the poker hands!

Technical details

• The game is tiny with no assets, sitting at less than 1MB for Linux and less than 0.5MB for Windows as of v0.3.0
• Looks charming and unlike a terminal game according to playtesters
• Still has thousands of frames to spare on the lowest end hardware I could find, even with CPU shaders in play.
• It runs on a custom low level terminal renderer I wrote, some of it's notable features:
  • Utilizes double buffering to avoid flickering
  • Uses dirty rectangles to save A LOT of frame time
  • Adds support for the alpha channel
• Features CPU frag shaders:
  • LUT Gamma correction (near zero performance impact)
  • LUT Vignette (noticeable performance impact)
  • Background noise shader (used for the green "table" parts of the UI, highest performance impact)

Running the Game

1. Grab the latest binary from releases:
   • Windows: term-slots-windows.exe
   • Linux: term-slots-linux
2. Run it:
   • Windows: Run term-slots-windows.exe or use .\term-slots-windows.exe in the terminal
   • Linux: chmod +x term-slots-linux && ./term-slots-linux

CLI Args

• --fps <n>: Framerate limit. 0 = uncapped. Default: 144.

Build from Source

git clone https://github.com/thehuglet/term-slots-rs.git
cd term-slots-rs
cargo build --release