Newsletter 20 #531

ozkriff · 2021-04-03T19:09:55Z

Feel free to suggest sections about any March rust gamedev news and updates!

If you want to help writing the newsletter:

Grab some of the "🆓 free" sections by leaving a comment like "I'd like to work on {section_name_1} and {section_name_2}".
Mentions in brackets (like "🆓 free (@ozkriff?)") are just an invitation to write the corresponding section if you want, but anyone is free to take it.
Write a short overview:
- Use provided links as a starting point.
- Try to maintain a consistent style with the rest of the newsletter and run markdownlint, please.
- Insert line breaks (softbreak) at 80 chars, please.
- DM me on Discord or Telegram if there're any questions.
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.

Quoting @AngelOnFira from the last month's coordination issue:

<...>
We're going to be transitioning to having authors or volunteers write about their own content, rather than the editing team doing it all at the end 100 This means if you want to see your work in the newsletter, you have to write it yourself! If you're not able to write about your work, feel free to comment and I can assign it free free. We're working on taking some of the load off the editing team where we can with this. Best to keep this sustainable!

Also, we want to make sure contributing to the newsletter feels open to anyone who wants to write a section about their project. If you have anything you can write about, just add a comment to this issue and I'll add it to the todo list smile

Current Schedule

The soft deadline for all section PRs is 2021.04.06.
Review and Release will take place on 2021.04~~.08~~ ~~.09~~ .10.

⚠️ It was decided to try a shorter and more limited section format: ⚠️

Only one image (<300kb) or GIF (<2.5mb) before the text. With an optional caption and a mandatory alt text.
All the (rendered) text should be under 1000 characters (including spaces and punctuation) and under 6 paragraphs (without any subsections, etc).
No bold/italic/etc formatting - only links and one plain list without nesting per section (multiple lists are allowed if your project consists of multiple parts that aren't independent enough for their own sections).
Third-person perspective.
80 chars per MD line and no other markdownlint warnings on CI.

Only the following simple templates are allowed:

See the templates

For games/apps/libs:

### [Gamename]

![alt text](img)
_optional image label_

[Gamename] ([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), [Twiter](link), [etc](link)_

{md links block}

For articles/videos/etc:

### [Articlename]

![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)_

{md links block}

CONTRIBUTING.md isn't updated for this yet.

Current Structure & Status

If you have your own project that you want to write about, just make a comment on this issue!

(I'll try to keep this updated)

Final steps:

final review - by everyone
publish - by @ozkriff
post on /r/rust, /r/rust_gamedv, /r/gamedev, URLO, twitter.com/rust_gamedev - by @ozkriff
add comment links - by @ozkriff
add a draft of the 21th newsletter - by @ozkriff

Editors: @ozkriff @17cupsofcoffee @AngelOnFira

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Bombfuse · 2021-04-03T19:26:49Z

got emerald 👍

Uriopass · 2021-04-03T19:29:33Z

I'll take Egregoria :)

m0lentum · 2021-04-03T19:50:14Z

I'd like to mention starframe's recent physics progress and the blog post about it published the other day 👋

Lokathor · 2021-04-03T19:52:02Z

I don't even remember what's new in the GL crates that was an entire months ago. It's better than before somehow, I'm sure.

Tarnadas · 2021-04-03T19:52:19Z

I’d like to write about sm64js.
I know that it hasn’t been posted in March, but I hope this is still okay. Since we’re having a stress test in April, this would be really helpful

dabreegster · 2021-04-03T20:07:20Z

I'll write about A/B Street

djkoloski · 2021-04-03T20:24:30Z

I'll write about "rkyv is faster than {...}". 🙂

expenses · 2021-04-03T20:30:21Z

My project isn't a game as such as I don't think I would have much to contribute anyway

bonsairobo · 2021-04-03T20:36:52Z

I'll write about building-blocks v0.6.0.

bmatthieu3 · 2021-04-03T20:40:58Z

I want to write about Aladin Lite

NiklasEi · 2021-04-03T21:22:25Z

Would a template repository for bevy games fit in here (maybe under Learning materials)?

jakmeier · 2021-04-03T21:59:04Z

Hey, thanks for putting Paddlers on the list again! Nothing new released or published this month, though. (0.2.1 was released at the end of February)

kettle11 · 2021-04-03T23:08:51Z

Writing a tiny Entity Component System in Rust (1, 2) - 🆓 free (@kettle11?)

I'll claim this one. Thanks!

optozorax · 2021-04-04T02:06:35Z

I will take egui-macroquad and Portal Explorer.

gridbugs · 2021-04-04T02:20:41Z

I'll write about Reverse-Engineering NES Tetris to add Hard Drop.
I'll also write about Orbital Decay which is a 7 Day Roguelike game jam game I made in rust.

dezajno · 2021-04-04T06:18:55Z

I'd like to write about some Stellary 2 updates :)

Wodann · 2021-04-04T06:23:50Z

I'll take Mun's update

sanbox-irl · 2021-04-04T06:34:27Z

No imgui-rs update this month! Thanks though :)

roalyr · 2021-04-04T08:04:01Z

Will do pGLOWrpg.

Keavon · 2021-04-04T10:48:01Z

I'll be submitting a section for Graphite development progress (probably relevant under the Libraries & Tooling Updates section, unless we renamed Game Updates to Game/App Updates.

PsichiX · 2021-04-04T15:48:07Z

i have a question - if i publish oxygengine + raui update today does it counts as entry for this month newsletter or i have to wait for next month?
also i take raui update waiting for me here :D

hecrj · 2021-04-07T05:40:44Z

I can write something for iced in the next hours.

alexheretic · 2021-04-07T05:41:54Z

Thanks for considering that Robo Instructus article. I don't think I'll have time to raise a pr this time, so feel free to leave it out.

ozkriff · 2021-04-07T17:29:44Z

@hecrj that would be great!

@alexheretic 👌 that's a cool article though, I'll try to write some summary myself :)

ozkriff · 2021-04-07T20:15:02Z

We've passed the soft deadline - pinging @PsichiX @Wodann @Keavon, how're your WIP sections going? :)

Keavon · 2021-04-07T20:18:15Z

Wasn't sure about the time zones and how much time I could squeak by :)

We finished up a big milestone last night so I've been writing the Graphite section on and off this morning. It's surprisingly hard to condense a lot of details into under 1k characters. I'm aiming to have it done within the next couple hours.

ozkriff · 2021-04-07T20:22:49Z

@Keavon yeah, writing a good overview is hard sometimes.

within the next couple hours

It's likely that the final draft will be ready in something like 20 hrs so there's no need to rush that much :)

ozkriff · 2021-04-07T21:18:56Z

Grabbing "Disguiser", "secbot", "rusty-bomber", "Outer Wonders", and "Robo Instructus article".

A reminder that the editors won't write all the untaken sections themselves anymore so if you want to make sure that something will be mentioned - you're encouraged to volunteer and grab these sections. :)

There're ~15 more free sections if anyone wants to help.

PsichiX · 2021-04-07T21:37:15Z

Oxygengine & RAUI updates pushed :D

ozkriff · 2021-04-09T06:34:45Z

Taking "Writing a 3D Shooter using rg3d" and "Using tests to speed up your feedback loop" learning sections.

Some cool library stuff is also not written, so going to take a few more library&tools sections later today and will publish the final draft closer to the evening (in my timezone).

ozkriff · 2021-04-09T18:31:14Z

Taking the last bunch of sections: genesis, Shipyard, rust-gpu.

Lokathor · 2021-04-09T18:37:45Z

The gba crate was updated to 0.4! It's using the new thumbv4-none-eabi target, and has an overall simpler build process than before. The project is still a work in progress, but if you've wanted to try an embedded experience this is an easy way to test the waters. No hardware required! Compiled binaries can be run in a GBA emulator just fine.

ozkriff · 2021-04-10T09:34:27Z

Final PR - #583 - everyone is invited to review

ozkriff · 2021-04-10T15:41:48Z

🎉 https://rust-gamedev.github.io/posts/newsletter-020

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

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