Zemeroth

Zemeroth is a turn-based hexagonal tactical game written in Rust.

You can play an online WebAssembly version of Zemeroth at ozkriff.itch.io/zemeroth.

Precompiled binaries for Linux, Windows, and macOS are available at github.com/ozkriff/zemeroth/releases.

big screenshot

campaign screenshot

main gameplay animation

youtube.com/c/andreylesnikov/videos

The initial vision of the project is:

• Random-based skirmish-level digital tabletop game
• Single-player only
• 3-6 fighters under player's control
• Small unscrollable maps
• Relatively short game sessions (under an hour)
• Simple vector 2D graphics with just 3-5 sprites per unit
• Reaction attacks and action interruptions
• Highly dynamic (lots of small unit moves as a side effect of other events)
• Intentionally stupid and predictable AI

Tactical battle mechanics are mostly inspired by these games:

• ENYO
• Hoplite
• Into the Breach
• Banner Saga (Survival Mode)
• Auro
• Minos Strategos
• Battle Brothers

Install all miniquad's system dependencies.

cargo install resvg
./utils/assets_export.sh
cargo run

cargo install resvg
./utils/assets_export.sh
rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown
./utils/wasm/build.sh
cargo install basic-http-server
basic-http-server static

Then open http://localhost:4000 in your browser.

The key external dependency of Zemeroth is macroquad / miniquad.

This repo contains a bunch of helper crates:

• zcomponents is a simple component storage.
• zgui is a simple and opinionated GUI library.
• zscene is a simple scene and declarative animation manager.

Also, resvg is used for exporting sprites from SVG.