Newsletter 13: Bevy Engine

Author: cart

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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:
+
+- Bevy was announced and [open sourced on GitHub](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy)
+- Bevy's features were introduced in the [Introducing Bevy](https://bevyengine.org/news/introducing-bevy/)
+blog post
+- Had a staggering number of people join the community. This required some quick
+planning to handle the new size, which they 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
+- Rapier, a new pure-rust 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, they quickly met their
+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".
+- Bevy received a glowing review from the Amethyst Engine team and they 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)
+
+In addition to the initial Bevy GitHub release, 114 pull requests were merged
+this month. The changes can't all be listed in this post, 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
+
+Bevy also made good progress on its 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
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 - [Amethyst's "good first issue" issues][amethyst-issues].
 - [A/B Street's "good first issue" issues][abstreet-issues].
 - [Mun's "good first issue" issues][mun-issues].
+- [Bevy's "good first issue" issues][bevy-issues].
 
 [embark.rs]: https://embark.rs
 [embark-open-issues]: https://github.com/search?q=user:EmbarkStudios+state:open
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 [amethyst-issues]: https://github.com/amethyst/amethyst/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22
 [abstreet-issues]: https://github.com/dabreegster/abstreet/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22
 [mun-issues]: https://github.com/mun-lang/mun/labels/good%20first%20issue
+[bevy-issues]: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/labels/good%20first%20issue
 
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