Newsletter 44: March 2023

[AngelOnFira]

Newsletter 44: March 2023

tags: newsletter

Editors: @AngelOnFira, @ozkriff

Another month has gone by, so it's time to put together the Rust Gamedev newsletter with March's news!

Current Schedule

The soft deadline for all section PRs is April 6th.

We may still accept PRs that are submitted later than this, as long as they're ready before the newsletter's release, but this isn't guaranteed. If you want your section to be included, don't leave it till the last minute!

How to Contribute

If you want to help writing the newsletter:

• Read CONTRIBUTING.md.
• Choose one or more of the "🆓 free" sections listed below, and leave a comment letting us know you want to work on them.
  • The links in brackets (like "1, 2, 3") are suggestions of links to include in the section. Feel free to add more!
  • The username listed next to the section (like "@ozkriff?") is a suggestion of who may want to pick up the work (usually the project's developer, or someone who has expressed interest in the past).
  • You are not obligated to write a section if you're tagged or your project is listed! You're welcome to ask someone else to write the section, or to ask for your project to be excluded from this month's post.
  • Extra sections not listed in the plan are welcomed - just leave a comment and open a PR!
• Write a short overview in the newsletter's Markdown file, making sure to follow the style guidelines (see below).
• Send a PR to the source branch (example: N15: A/B Street #336).
• Mention this issue in your PR's description to link it all together.

Style Guidelines

The full style guide is in CONTRIBUTING.md, but here are the most important rules:

• Write in third-person perspective.
• Each line must be 80 characters or less, for ease of reviewing/diffing.
• Only one image per section is allowed.
  • The maximum size is 300kb for static images and 2.5mb for GIFs.
  • The image should come before the text, and must have alt text for accessibility.
  • Prefer static images to GIFs, to keep the page load times down.
• Each section should be under 1000 characters, and under 6 paragraphs.
  • This only applies to the rendered text, not the markup.
• Keep formatting minimal - no bold/italics/etc.
• Avoid long/nested bullet point lists - no changelogs!

Please use these templates as a starting point:

Games/apps/libraries:

### [Game name]

![alt text](img)
_optional image label_

[Game name] ([GitHub], [Discord], [Twitter]) by [@nickname]
is... {short project description in one sentence}.

{An overview of the recent updates with links to more details}.

_Discussions: [/r/rust_gamedev](link), [Twitter](link), [etc](link)_

[Game name]: http://example.com

Articles/blog posts/videos/etc:

### [Article name]

![alt text](img)
_optional image label_

[@nickname] published an [article] about...
{overview what the resource is about}.

_Discussions: [/r/rust_gamedev](link), [Twiter](link), [etc](link)_

[Article name]: http://example.com

Current Structure & Status

Below is our current planned structure for the newsletter, and the status of each PR (which we'll try to keep updated).

This is not an exhaustive list - if you have your own project that you want to write about, just make a comment on this issue and open a PR!

Announcements

• Rust GameDev Meetup - 🚧 WIP by @AngelOnFira

Game Updates

• Veloren (1) - 🚧 WIP by @AngelOnFira
• Infinilands (1, 2) - 🆓 free (@FluffyCreature?)
• The Beat Of Space (1) - 🆓 free
• Tiny Glade (1, 2, 3) - 🆓 free (@anopara?)
• Combine And Conquer (1) - 🆓 free (@I3ck?)
• maginet (1, 2) - 🆓 free
• vustnexus (1) - 🆓 free (@Seth-VII?)
• Zombie Demo Game (1, 2) - ✔️ done by @LPGhatguy
• BattleBots simulator (1) - 🆓 free (@nilaysavant?)
• bevy-rust-wasm-experiments (1, 2) - 🆓 free (@topheman?)
• Cybergate (1, 2) - ✔️ done by @cybersoulK
• Maginet (1) - 🆓 free
• Shifting chamber (1) - ✔️ done by @maciekglowka
• Cargo Space (1) - 🆓 free (@johanhelsing?)
• Screen Ball (1) - 🚧 WIP by @lewiszlw
• Battle City Game (1) - 🚧 WIP by @lewiszlw
• tunnet (1) - ✔️ done by@puzzled-squid
• 8bit Duels (1) - ✔️ done by @ThousandthStar

• Digital Extinction (1) - ✔️ done by@Indy2222
• Jumpy - ✔️ done by @zicklag
• Way of Rhea - ✔️ done by @MasonRemaley

Learning Material Updates

• Writing NES assembly programs in a Rust DSL (1) - ✔️ done by @gridbugs
• PhaestusFox’s Bevy videos (1) - 🆓 free (@PhaestusFox?)
• Pirate Annihilation Devlog Newsletter #2 (1) - 🆓 free (@theredfish?)
• Transparent Windows (1, 2) - 🆓 free (@s0lly?)
• Rendering 5 million pixel updates per second with Rust & wgpu (1, 2) - 🆓 free (@codetheweb?)
• Bestagon Mesh Generation: Waveform Collapse in Bevy (1) - 🆓 free (@PhaestusFox?)
• Editors 2/3 + 3/3: Editing entries (1, 2) - ✔️ done by @TheGrimsey
• Foxtrot (1) - 🚧 WIP by @janhohenheim - 🆓 free
• Creating a Small Game with WebAssembly and Rust (1) - 🆓 free
• Still Have A Use For Adobe Flash? Ruffle Is Working To Safely Emulate It In Rust (1) - 🆓 free
• Paving the Road to Vulkan on Asahi Linux (1) - 🆓 free
• forerunner - a storytelling platform for composing Souls-like Action-RPGs (1) - 🆓 free
• Using the Depth Prepass in Bevy 0.10 (1) - ✔️ done by@ChristopherBiscardi
• Learn Bevy 0.10 Beginner Tutorial (1) - 🆓 free (@frederickjjoubert?)
• Getting started with egui in Rust (1) - 🆓 free (@whoisryosuke?)
• My unsorted and unsolicited thoughts on Rust for game development (1) - 🆓 free (@yanchith?)
• Overworld and NPCs in Bevy (1) - 🆓 free (@mwbryant?)

Engine Updates

• fyrox (1, 2) - 🚧 WIP by @ozkriff
• Bevy 0.10 (1) - ✔️ done by @cart
• Hotline (1) - ✔️ done by @polymonster
• Tetra 0.8.0 (1, 2, 3) - 🆓 free (@17cupsofcoffee?)

Tooling Updates

• Graphite - 🚧 WIP by @Keavon
• Epic Asset Manager (1) - 🆓 free (@aknarts?)
• Orlop (1, 2, 3) - 🆓 free (@timrach?)
• ruffle (1) - 🆓 free (@adrian17?)
• tarsila (1) - ✔️ done by @yds12
• Tiger (1) - ✔️ done by @agersant
• Blackjack (1) - 🆓 free (@setzer22?)
• Orlop (1) - 🆓 free
• Rerun (1) - 🚧 WIP by @Wumpf

Library Updates

• winit-block-on (1) - 🆓 free (@notgull?)
• pixelate_mesh (1) - 🚧 WIP by @janhohenheim
• tinyaudio (1) - 🚧 WIP by @ozkriff
• bevy_text_mode (1, 2) - ✔️ done by @yopox
• Bevy Rust-GPU (1) - 🚧 WIP by @Shfty
• Bevy Hanabi (1) - 🆓 free (@djeedai?)
• faer 0.5.0 (1) - 🆓 free (@sarah-ek?)
• Matchbox 0.6 (1) - ✔️ done by @johanhelsing?
• rust-gpu-sdf - 🚧 WIP by @Shfty

Other News

• Bullet points of any interesting news that doesn't have its own section - 🆓 free

Discussions

• "Is WGPU actually a good idea yet?" (1) - 🆓 free

Jobs

• Ambient (1) - 🆓 free

Publishing Steps

• Final review - by everyone
• Publish - by @AngelOnFira
• Post on /r/rust, /r/rust_gamedev, /r/gamedev, URLO, twitter.com/rust_gamedev - by @AngelOnFira
• Pin thread on Twitter - by @ozkriff
• Add comment links - by @AngelOnFira
• Add a draft of next month's newsletter - by @AngelOnFira

[Wumpf]

I'll take the Rerun update

[polymonster]

I'll do an update for hotline. my first one. Thanks for including me :)

[maciekglowka]

Thanks! I am gonna take the section about my game (Shifting Chamber)

[lewiszlw]

Thanks! Happy to take Screen Ball and Battle City Game sections.

[janhohenheim]

I'll write about Foxtrot and Pixelate Mesh :)

[gridbugs]

I'll take the section about my talk on writing NES programs in a rust DSL

[puzzled-squid]

I will write about Tunnet.

[yds12]

I'll write about Tarsila

[ThousandthStar]

Just did 8bit Duels.

[Shfty]

Thanks 🙂

I'll write the Bevy Rust-GPU section, and take the opportunity to add one announcing rust-gpu-sdf if that's cool?

[zicklag]

I should be able to write a section for Jumpy tomorrow.

[Shfty]

Bevy Rust-GPU is sorted; I need to finish up some abstractions before capturing a visual for rust-gpu-sdf, so i'll issue a separate pull for that section once it's ready.

[mamaicode]

Hey!
I would like to help out with editing!

[Wandalen]

Hello active participants of Rust community! Please kind merge our PR. It's about UA Rust Conference 2023. Among speakers are Luca Palmieri, author of the book Zero To Production In Rust and Christof Petig, one of the core developers of Veloren. Shame we don't have you @AngelOnFira among speakers 😜

[Wandalen]

By the way Irina @scirin, I encourage you to join our community if you are not there yet
https://t.me/rustlang_ua
And visit the conference:
https://uarust.com/

[Shfty]

I've added a section for rust-gpu-sdf 🙂

[codetheweb]

I'll take my article "Rendering 5 million pixel updates per second with Rust & wgpu"

[cart]

I just picked up Bevy 0.10

[cart]

I think we'll probably want to cover Bevy Jam 3 next newsletter. April 6th is pretty much too late in the jam to join, but still during the duration of the jam so we won't have results yet.

[buxx]

Hello, I would like to speak about Open Combat (but not in the list in tjis NL ?)

[Keavon]

@cart there's probably still time to cover Bevy Jam 3, I'd think.

[Wumpf]

I need to update the Rerun piece again, by now there was a new version release ;)

[ozkriff]

Taking all unclaimed engine, tooling, and library sections.

[janhohenheim]

Just realized I forgot to write the sections I claimed, will do this later today :)

[ozkriff]

I'm taking over the last bits of the newsletter; going to post the final draft in a couple of hrs.

[Wumpf]

oh shoot 😳 . forgot about updating the rerun entry. on it now.

[ozkriff]

https://gamedev.rs/news/044 - aaand it's out!

Sorry for all the delays. On the positive side, our release timings will hopefully improve in the future since we've just got a new editor: @scirin!

And, as always, huge thanks to all contributors, reviewers, and editors! 🦀🦀🦀