Newsletter 13: Bevy Engine

Author: cart

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 - [Game Updates](#game-updates)
 - [Learning Material Updates](#learning-material-updates)
-- [Library & Tooling Updates](#library-tooling-updates)
+- [Library & Tooling Updates](#library--tooling-updates)
+  - [Bevy Engine](#bevy-engine)
 - [Popular Workgroup Issues in Github](#popular-workgroup-issues-in-github)
 - [Meeting Minutes](#meeting-minutes)
 - [Requests for Contribution](#requests-for-contribution)
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 ## Library & Tooling Updates
 
+### Bevy Engine
+
+[![bevy logo](bevy_logo.png)](https://bevyengine.org/)
+
+[Bevy](https://bevyengine.org/) is a brand new, refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. It aims to be:
+
+* **Capable**: Offer a complete 2D and 3D feature set
+* **Simple**: Easy for newbies to pick up, but infinitely flexible for power users
+* **Data Focused**: Data-oriented architecture using the Entity Component System paradigm
+* **Modular**: Use only what you need. Replace what you don't like
+* **Fast**: App logic should run quickly, and when possible, in parallel
+* **Productive**: Changes should compile quickly ... waiting isn't fun
+
+These last few weeks have been big for the Bevy project:
+
+* We announced Bevy and [open sourced it on GitHub](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy)
+* Introduced Bevy's features in the [Introducing Bevy](https://bevyengine.org/news/introducing-bevy/) blog post
+* Had a staggering number of people join the community. We had to quickly develop a plan to scale, which we outlined in the [Scaling Bevy](https://bevyengine.org/news/scaling-bevy/) blog post
+* Added an official [awesome-bevy repo](https://github.com/bevyengine/awesome-bevy) with a huge number of community plugins, games, apps, and learning materials
+* The new pure-rust Rapier physics engine released an [official Bevy plugin](https://www.dimforge.com/blog/2020/08/25/announcing-the-rapier-physics-engine/#reaching-out-to-other-communities-bevy-and-javascript) 
+* Thanks to the generosity of individuals and companies, we quickly met our first two funding goals on @cart's [Github Sponsors page](https://github.com/sponsors/cart): "sustainable development" and "@cart makes minimum wage working on Bevy". 
+* Received a glowing review from the Amethyst Engine team and agreed to collaborate in certain areas. See the [Addressing the Elephant in the Room](https://community.amethyst.rs/t/bevy-engine-addressing-the-elephant-in-the-room) thread on the Amethyst forum for more details.
+
+Bevy users started sharing their work on the [Bevy Discord showcase channel](https://discord.com/channels/691052431525675048/692648638823923732)
+![bevy showcase](bevy_showcase.png)
+
+We also merged 114 pull requests this month. We can't list everything here, but here are some highlights:
+* A custom [async task system for Bevy](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/384), which significantly improves CPU usage and paves the way for future async work.
+* Refactored data-driven ECS shader code to make it more maintainable, fix some bugs, and ready to be optimized via the ECS change detection apis
+* Support for "logical or" ECS queries as a compliment to the default "logical and"
+* Numerous CI improvements
+* Use shaderc to compile shaders for iOS builds
+* GLTF loading improvements
+
+We also have made good progress on our three focus areas:
+* [Editor-Ready UI](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/254)
+* [Physically Based Rendering (PBR)](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/179)
+* [Scenes](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/255)
+
+_Discussions:
+[/r/rust](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/i7bcwu/introducing_bevy_a_refreshingly_simple_datadriven/), [hacker news](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24123283), [twitter announcement](https://twitter.com/cart_cart/status/1292903435155599361), [amethyst forum]((https://community.amethyst.rs/t/bevy-engine-addressing-the-elephant-in-the-room))_
+
 ## Popular Workgroup Issues in Github
 
 ## Meeting Minutes