Newsletter #2: Final draft

[ozkriff]

Rendered

Sorry, I started working on the draft late this time. I was planning to prepare an extended draft during 20ths of September but unexpectedly got totally swamped.

Ideally, this newsletter should be released on 1 October but I hope it's ok if it will be released a few days later this time.

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TODO:

• Roguelike Toolkit 3.1 & Rust Roguelike Tutorial
• Veloren
• Godot
• Zemeroth
• Use prebuilt rooms with Rust macros for more interesting procedural dungeons
• Embark / texture-synthesis
  • texture-synthesis
  • other
• Iced (pum-purum-pum-pum)
• gfx-rs
• Twenty Asteroids
• Amethyst
  • tooling
  • games
• Hot Reloading
• Other News
  • uset
  • WraithDefense
  • cubism-rs
  • Stats And Skills
  • Robo Instructus
  • Github Actions CI with Rust and SDL2
  • Tennis Academy
  • Garden
  • seratonik's project
  • doom BSP talk
  • rx (cloudhead)
  • Xprite
  • live-rust
  • luminance
  • spline-editor
  • MrVallentin's voxel engine
  • Disconnected
  • minimum
  • imgui-inspect
  • deios
  • blend
• Popular Workgroup Issues in Github
• Requests for Contribution
• Bonus: Sandspiel

[17cupsofcoffee]

Looking good so far 😄

Take your time - I think maybe once this issue is out we should raise an issue to discuss how we can get more people submitting their own stuff/news that interests them to the newsletter. Feel bad that all of the work is falling on you at the minute!

[cloudhead]

I'd love to do the section on rx, but probably best to wait for this to be merged first.

[ozkriff]

@cloudhead I'm not sure how long finishing and merging this will take, so I will be happy if you make a PR to this branch. :)

[hecrj]

I would love to help with the Iced section too! I can open a PR with a short description.

EDIT: I see ozkriff#1 already fixes it!

[hadronized]

That’s a hella lot of work. Congrats! 🎉

[cloudhead]

@ozkriff ozkriff#2 👍

[ozkriff]

The PR is finally ready for review!

r? everyone

If everything is ok, this newsletter will be merged and published in a few hours (~ 16:00 UTC?).

[17cupsofcoffee]

LGTM 👍 Thank you again for all your hard work putting this together!

[nico-abram]

Found a typo at the end
The source code is aviable on GitHub

[Wodann]

Nice work on the newsletter!

I proposed a couple of spelling/grammar fixes.

[kvark]

Wow, this is such a big update! Amazing work compiling it here 👍

My biggest concern here is the "News and Blog Posts" that covers the most of the post and became a mixed bag of libraries, tools, and games. For example, it's weird to see gfx-rs update between two games updates.

Perhaps, we can split them in two groups: "Library & Tooling updates" and "Game updates"? I think that would roughly be a half and half split. Within "Library & Tooling" we could roughly try to order things in the order of dependencies, i.e. either from lowest level to highest, or the opposite.

[ozkriff]

@kvark I intentionally intermixed games and libraries but I guess I'm ok with adding more structure to the newsletter.

I've got a few questions though:

1. What comes first - libraries or games?
2. Should the Amethyst section be split into Library & Tooling updates/Amethyst and Game updates/Amethyst Games? Amethyst's logo, I guess, stays in the Library & Tooling part.
3. Should the "Other News" section be split into Library & Tooling updates/Other News and Game updates/Other News?

[Lokathor]

Games come first. They're what we're ultimately trying to promote. Libraries only exist in service to games.

[ozkriff]

@kvark @Lokathor @17cupsofcoffee restructured and resorted as proposed. 🤔

r?

[ozkriff]

I guess I should wait for a few more review approvals before merging after all this section moves.

[AlexEne]

Thanks for the ton of work you did on this one

[hecrj]

Looks fantastic!

[17cupsofcoffee]

New structure looks good to me :)