Hangman Server

This is my first project in Rust, the server for a networked implementation of the popular whiteboard game Hangman. I wrote it (and the network protocol with it) at the end of my sophomore year of college as an add-on to the final project for my Programming Languages class. You can read more about the protocol specs in protocol-doc.md.
Note: This project requires my hangman-client-rust repository to work! That is the client that allows you to actually play the game.

Setup

tested on linux, but it should mostly work for other OSes too

1. Install Rust using the guide here
2. Open a terminal and navigate to an appropriate directory (such as your Downloads)
3. Clone this repo with git clone https://github.com/Jovan-04/hangman-server-rust.git
4. Run cd hangman-server-rust to navigate to the project's root directory
5. By default, the server is hosted on port 25565; you can change that by editing the IP_ADDRESS string in src/main.rs:9

• You can also build this to a binary executable for your OS using cargo build. The output file will be ./target/debug/server.

Usage

1. Run the project's source code by navigating to its root directory and running cargo run in the terminal
2. Enter a single word, 2-14 letters and case-insensitive when the terminal prompts you
3. You'll get a message that reads Game initialized with word {word}, after which the game will begin logging all received packets to the terminal
4. That's it! You can stop the game at any time with Ctrl-C