2025-07-27
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Although I develop Mirador on Arch Linux (btw), I have always intended for the game to be accessible to a wider audience—including my friends, who...
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Mirador is a modular, interactive game written in Rust, focused on real-time rendering, procedural maze generation, and immersive gameplay. It leverages modern GPU technologies and custom UI systems to provide a responsive and visually engaging experience.
Mirador is a work in progress stealth game written entirely in Rust. It is designed to be modular, real-time, and memory-efficient. It achieves this by employing several rendering pipelines that each handle specific aspects of the game's visual and interactive elements, all of which leverage the computational power of the GPU via the WGPU graphics API. Whilst this project is still in development, it currently supports:
Mirador is organized into several core modules:
The application initializes a WGPU instance and event loop, sets up rendering and UI pipelines, and manages all state transitions and user interactions through a central App struct.
Mirador is intended for developers and enthusiasts interested in graphics programming, game development, or Rust-based application architecture. To explore or contribute:
cargo build.cargo run.The game features a stealth-based gameplay loop where players navigate procedurally generated mazes while avoiding detection by AI enemies. Players can collect upgrades to enhance their abilities and progress through increasingly challenging levels.
For the in code documentation, please refer to:
Rust Doc Documentation
Mirador is released under an open-source license. See the repository for details.
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