Are we game yet? - Rust

Since you ended up here, you probably agree that Rust is potentially an ideal language for Game Development.

Its emphasis on low-level memory safe programming promise a better development process, less debugging time, and better end result.

While the ecosystem is still very young, you can find enough libraries and game engines to sink your teeth into doing some slightly experimental gamedev.

If you haven't learned Rust yet, maybe take a look at Resources first. If you are already proficient with Rust you might want to start with Ecosystem, or Chat.

The main meeting places for people doing gamedev in Rust are on the IRC channel #rust-gamedev@irc.mozilla.org and the #gamedev channel on the community-run Discord server.

Many libraries have their own lively gitter chats, which you can find in their descriptions.

Also see the subreddit.

Sprites, vectors, splines, hex grids and more

FBX, OBJ and more

Graphics APIs, wrappers for and backends to Vulkan and OpenGL, and more

AI libraries, steering, behaviour trees, planners, etc.

Rigging, tweening, anything related to animation.

Wrappers for FMOD, OpenAL, MIDI and similar, and higher level APIs.

Entity Component System implementations

2D and 3D engines and frameworks

Libraries to handle controllers, gamepads, keyboards, etc.

Linear algebra libraries, quaternions, color conversion and more

Tools for optimising and processing meshes.

Multiplayer, Protocols, and more

2D and 3D physics engines, collision detection libraries

Scripting languages embeddable in a Rust game

Languages and tools for writing, compiling, and using shaders.

Tools & other game-dev related libraries

Immediate mode UI libraries and more

VR engines and libraries

Windowing and Context Creation crates

Network shooter with physics and destructions

A turn-based hexagonal strategy game

A-life simulator sandbox

Open-world exploration game with plants. Everything is procedurally generated

A Doom Renderer written in Rust

A Dwarf Fortress/Rimworld-like game written in Rust

Online multiplayer sandbox space ship combat game

A simple Minecraft written in Rust with the Piston game engine

A Quake 3 like game with voxelized destructible maps

A toy game in Rust, using Piston. The code is thoroughly commented in order to help people to follow it easily

A roguelike game in Rust

A game made in rust

A (100% Rust) puzzle game about snakes in cramped places

A new city-building game that dares to go beyond everything in its genre

A jump and bump game for two players made with ggez

A program that lets you view the world

A small 2D turn-based hexagonal tactical game made with ggez engine

A game centered around really detailed plant growth simulation

Rusty Vangers clone

A remake of the Shenzhen Solitaire variant

Rostige Schlange ("Rusty Snake" in German apparently) is a small snake clone, using OpenGL for rendering

Experimental minimalist game with a special graphical mecanic

A real-time base-building strategy game with procedurally generated worlds and an emphasis on simulation and story

A space game using Rust & Piston

Cartoonish style racing game using Rust and OpenGL - highly experimental at its current state

An open source Voxel RPG game inspired by Cube World and Dwarf Fortress in early development

A puzzle game in which players manoeuvre a robot by issuing instructions via a simple programming language

An ecosystem simulation game. Achieve the greatest possible eco-diversity without disrupting the equilibrium.

Dose Response is a roguelike game where you play an addict. Avoid the dangers threatening your mind and body while desperately looking for the next fix.

A simple 2D platformer game that demonstrates the use of two Rust crates: Gate and Collider.

Pascal Penguin is a 2D grid-based puzzle game with levels designed around slippery ice.

A puzzle platformer that takes place in a world where you can only interact with objects that match your current color.

A collection of runnable examples that illustrate various Rust concepts and standard libraries

The Rust language official book

Making games using Rust, Lua and the ECS design pattern

Each commit in this repo is a step in a game development tutorial

A curated list of Rust code and resources, inspired by other awesome lists

An overview of which engines and libraries to use

Some thoughts on tools and libraries

A Rust port of the code for the excellent OpenGL tutorials at learnopengl.com

3-part series of posts on writing a simple raytracer in Rust

Graphics Programmer

Writes on shadercat.com about Physically Based Shading and Rendering with Rust and Unity.

Backend developer and FP enthusiast

Software Engineer

Designer & Rustacean

Working with the Amethyst Engine team.

System programmer, hobby game developer

Writes turn-based games in Rust (Zemeroth atm), runs the @rust_gamedev twitter account.

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