Newsletter 13: Bevy Engine

content/posts/newsletter-013/index.md

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 [voxel-post-tech]: https://medium.com/@bonsairobo/smooth-voxel-mapping-a-technical-deep-dive-on-real-time-surface-nets-and-texturing-ef06d0f8ca14
 [voxel-post-cam]: https://medium.com/@bonsairobo/a-3rd-person-camera-in-complex-voxel-world-523944d5335c
 
+### [Bevy Engine][bevy]
+
+[![bevy logo](bevy_logo.png)](https://bevyengine.org/)
+
+[Bevy][bevy] by [@cart] 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][bevy].
+- Bevy's features were introduced in the ["Introducing Bevy"][bevy-intro]
+  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][bevy-scaling] blog post.
+- Added an official [awesome-bevy repo][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][bevy-rapier].
+- Thanks to the generosity of individuals and companies, they quickly met
+  their first two funding goals on @cart's [Github Sponsors page][bevy-spnsors]:
+  "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][bevy-amethyst]
+  thread on the Amethyst forum for more details.
+
+Bevy users started sharing their work
+on the [Bevy Discord showcase channel][bevy-discord-showcase]:
+
+![bevy showcase](bevy_showcase.png)
+
+In addition to the initial Bevy GitHub release, 114 pull requests
+were merged this month. Some highlights:
+
+- A custom [async task system for Bevy][bevy-pr-async],
+  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://reddit.com/r/rust/comments/i7bcwu/introducing_bevy),
+[hacker news](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24123283),
+[twitter](https://twitter.com/cart_cart/status/1292903435155599361),
+[amethyst forum](https://community.amethyst.rs/t/bevy-engine-addressing-the-elephant-in-the-room)_
+
+[bevy]: https://bevyengine.org
+[@cart]: https://github.com/cart
+[bevy-intro]: https://bevyengine.org/news/introducing-bevy
+[bevy-scaling]: https://bevyengine.org/news/scaling-bevy
+[awesome-bevy]: https://github.com/bevyengine/awesome-bevy
+[bevy-rapier]: https://www.dimforge.com/blog/2020/08/25/announcing-the-rapier-physics-engine/#reaching-out-to-other-communities-bevy-and-javascript
+[bevy-spnsors]: https://github.com/sponsors/cart
+[bevy-amethyst]: https://community.amethyst.rs/t/bevy-engine-addressing-the-elephant-in-the-room
+[bevy-discord-showcase]: https://discord.com/channels/691052431525675048/692648638823923732
+[bevy-pr-async]: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/384
+
 ### [Minigene][minigene]
 
 [Minigene][minigene] is a tiled and ASCII game engine made by [@jojolepro].
@@ -838,6 +914,7 @@ or [join the next meeting][join].
 - [A/B Street's "good first issue" issues][abstreet-issues].
 - [Mun's "good first issue" issues][mun-issues].
 - [SIMple Mechanic's good first issues][simm-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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 [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
 [simm-issues]: https://github.com/mkhan45/SIMple-Mechanics/labels/good%20first%20issue
+[bevy-issues]: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/labels/good%20first%20issue
 
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