train-game

A side-scrolling terminal steam train for toddlers.

• Right arrow / Left arrow — drive the train forward / backward
• Spacebar — toot the horn
• Type quit or exit — quit

Download and run

Download the ZIP for your platform from the latest release, extract it, and run the game from a terminal.

macOS Apple silicon

Use train-game-macos-arm64.zip.

cd ~/Downloads/train-game-macos-arm64
./train-game

The macOS release is not signed or notarized yet. If macOS says it cannot verify the game, remove the quarantine attribute from the extracted release folder:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine ~/Downloads/train-game-macos-arm64

macOS Intel

Use train-game-macos-x86_64.zip.

cd ~/Downloads/train-game-macos-x86_64
./train-game

The macOS release is not signed or notarized yet. If macOS says it cannot verify the game, remove the quarantine attribute from the extracted release folder:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine ~/Downloads/train-game-macos-x86_64

Windows

Use train-game-windows-x86_64.zip.

cd $HOME\Downloads\train-game-windows-x86_64
.\train-game.exe

Run it from Windows Terminal or PowerShell so the terminal stays open.

Linux

Use train-game-linux-x86_64.zip.

cd ~/Downloads/train-game-linux-x86_64
./train-game

If your unzip tool drops executable permissions, restore them:

chmod +x ~/Downloads/train-game-linux-x86_64/train-game

Minimal Linux installs may also need the ALSA runtime libraries for audio.

Audio

The chugga loop, horn, and "another wheel" voice are vendored under assets/ and embedded into the binary at compile time. Rain ambience is generated at runtime. Playback uses rodio, so the game runs on macOS, Linux, and Windows with no audio toolchain required at runtime.

Attribution

• Chugga loop (assets/chugga.flac, from Steam_engine.ogg): public-domain recording by aradlaw, via Wikimedia Commons.
• Whistle / horn (assets/whistle.flac, from WWS_SteamWhistle.ogg): CC-BY-4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
• Another wheel (assets/another_wheel.flac): generated with the Piper en_US-ljspeech-medium voice. The piper-voices repository is MIT licensed, and its model card lists the LJ Speech dataset as public domain.

Requirements

• Rust toolchain (edition 2024 — Rust 1.85+)

Run

cargo run --release