Hive Game Engine

A game engine for the board game Hive made with Rust.

Hive

Hive is a bug-themed tabletop game, designed by John Yianni and published in 2001 by Gen42 Games. The object of Hive is to capture the opponent's queen bee by completely surrounding it, while avoiding the capture of one's own queen (Wikipedia).

Purpose

The goal of this project is to create a reliable game engine for the game Hive using Rust Programming Language.

Setup

Rust 1.82.0 (https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install)

Usage

Run tests

cargo test

Play the game through command line

cargo run

Ex:

   __      __      __      __      __      __      __      __      __      __
  -2,-6   -1,-6   0,-6    1,-6    2,-6    3,-6    4,-6    5,-6    6,-6    7,-6
       __      __      __      __      __      __    W BETL    __    W SANT    __
      -2,-5   -1,-5   0,-5    1,-5    2,-5    3,-5    4,-5    5,-5    6,-5    7,-5
           __      __      __      __      __    W SANT  W GRHP  W GRHP    __      __
          -2,-4   -1,-4   0,-4    1,-4    2,-4    3,-4    4,-4    5,-4    6,-4    7,-4
               __      __      __      __      __    W SPDR    __      __      __      __
              -2,-3   -1,-3   0,-3    1,-3    2,-3    3,-3    4,-3    5,-3    6,-3    7,-3
                   __      __      __      __      __    B QBEE    __      __      __      __
                  -2,-2   -1,-2   0,-2    1,-2    2,-2    3,-2    4,-2    5,-2    6,-2    7,-2
                       __      __    B GRHP  B SPDR  B SPDR    __      __      __      __      __
                      -2,-1   -1,-1   0,-1    1,-1    2,-1    3,-1    4,-1    5,-1    6,-1    7,-1
                           __      __      __      __    W QBEE    __      __      __      __      __
                          -2,0    -1,0     0,0     1,0     2,0     3,0     4,0     5,0     6,0     7,0
                               __      __      __      __    W SPDR  B SANT    __      __      __      __
                              -2,1    -1,1     0,1     1,1     2,1     3,1     4,1     5,1     6,1     7,1
                                   __      __      __    W BETL    __      __      __      __      __      __
                                  -2,2    -1,2     0,2     1,2     2,2     3,2     4,2     5,2     6,2     7,2

[(0): B GRHP from:   0,-1  , to:   3,-1  ][(1): B SANT from:    3,1  , to:    2,2  ][(2): B SANT from:    3,1  , to:    1,3  ]...

Choose an action:

...

B wins!

TODO

Add Pillbug piece type

hive-engine 0.1.0