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Welcome to the eleventh issue of the Rust GameDev Workgroup’s monthly newsletter. Rust is a systems language pursuing the trifecta: safety, concurrency, and speed. These goals are well-aligned with game development. We hope to build an inviting ecosystem for anyone wishing to use Rust in their development process! Want to get involved? Join the Rust GameDev working group!

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Table of contents:

• Game Updates
• Learning Material Updates
• Library & Tooling Updates
• Popular Workgroup Issues in Github
• Meeting Minutes
• Requests for Contribution
• Jobs
• Bonus

Game Updates

Learning Material Updates

Library & Tooling Updates

yaks

yaks is a minimalistic framework for automatic multithreading of hecs ECS library using Rayon data-parallelism library.

While the project itself started earlier this year, with this month's release yaks gained an overhauled API, further leaning into the promise of simplicity:

• systems are any functions or closures of a specific signature,
• Executor is a container for one or more systems,
• system execution order can be defined when building an Executor to create concurrent chains of systems,
• resources used by systems (any data that is not associated with an entity) are now borrowed for the duration of execution, instead of being owned by the framework.

All items in the library are exhaustively documented, and the repository contains a fully annotated example.

Enabled-by-default parallel cargo feature can be disabled to force everything in yaks to become single-threaded, which allows using code written with the framework on platforms without threading - notably, web.

Popular Workgroup Issues in Github

Meeting Minutes

See all meeting issues including full text notes or join the next meeting.

Requests for Contribution

• Embark's open issues (embark.rs);
• winit's "Good first issue" and “help wanted” issues;
• gfx-rs's "contributor-friendly" issues;
• wgpu's "help wanted" issues;
• luminance's "low hanging fruit" issues;
• ggez's "good first issue" issues;
• Veloren's "beginner" issues;
• Amethyst's "good first issue" issues;
• A/B Street's "good first issue" issues;
• Mun's "good first issue" issues;

Jobs

Bonus

Just an interesting Rust gamedev link from the past. :)

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