A/B Street Instructions
This is an alpha-quality demo. Please email dabreegster@gmail.com or file a Github issue if you hit problems.
Installing the game
Grab a pre-built binary release -- updated every Sunday, announced at r/abstreet:
- Windows:
https://github.com/dabreegster/abstreet/releases/download/v0.2.9/abstreet_windows_v0_2_9.zip
- Unzip the folder, then run
play_abstreet.bat
. You'll probably getting a warning about running software from an unknown publisher.
- Unzip the folder, then run
- Mac:
https://github.com/dabreegster/abstreet/releases/download/v0.2.9/abstreet_mac_v0_2_9.zip
- Unzip the directory, then run
play_abstreet.sh
. - If that just opens a text file instead of running the game, then instead
open terminal,
cd
to the directory you just unzipped. Then do:cd game; RUST_BACKTRACE=1 ./game 1> ../output.txt 2>&1
- Help needed to package this as a Mac .app, to make this process simpler
- Unzip the directory, then run
- Linux:
https://github.com/dabreegster/abstreet/releases/download/v0.2.9/abstreet_linux_v0_2_9.zip
- Unzip the directory, then run
play_abstreet.sh
.
- Unzip the directory, then run
- FreeBSD: https://www.freshports.org/games/abstreet/ (thanks to Yuri)
Or you can compile from source.
Playing the game
- Use the tutorial to learn the controls.
- Play the challenges for directed gameplay.
- Try out any ideas in the sandbox.
Data source licensing
A/B Street binary releases contain pre-built maps that combine data from:
- OpenStreetMap (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright)
- King County metro (https://www.kingcounty.gov/depts/transportation/metro/travel-options/bus/app-center/terms-of-use.aspx)
- City of Seattle GIS program (https://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/1.0/)
- https://github.com/seattleio/seattle-boundaries-data (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Puget Sound Regional Council (https://www.psrc.org/activity-based-travel-model-soundcast)
- USGS SRTM
Other binary data bundled in:
- Overpass font (https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Overpass, Open Font License)
- Bungee fonts (https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Bungee, Open Font License)
- Material Design icons (https://material.io/resources/icons, Apache license)