awesome-rust-gamedev

A collection about rust gamedev resources. PRs welcome.

Table of contents

• General
• Rust Programming
• Game Engines
• Graphics
• Physics
• Games
• Bevy Engine
  • Books
  • Tutorials
  • Ecosystem
  • Communities
  • Games
• Other Awesome Lists

General

• Are we game yet?: This site tracks the state of the ecosystem for Game Development in Rust.
• Rust GameDev WG: Official Rust game development working group blog site.

Rust Programming

• Official Book (rust book with quizzes)
• google/comprehensive-rust: This is the Rust course used by the Android team at Google.
• [Chinese] Rust语言圣经
• Cheat Sheet: A single-page Rust resource for people who like high information density.
• Aysnc Book: Asynchronous Programming in Rust.
• The Nomicon: The Dark Arts of Advanced and Unsafe Rust Programming.

Game Engines

• bevy: A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust.
• fyrox: A feature-rich, production-ready, general purpose 2D/3D game engine written in Rust with a scene editor.
• piston: A modular game engine written in Rust.
• godot-rust: Rust bindings for Godot 3.
• ggez: Rust library to create a Good Game Easily.
• Ambient: The multiplayer game engine.

Graphics

• wgpu: Safe and portable GPU abstraction in Rust, implementing WebGPU API.
• vulkano: Safe and rich Rust wrapper around the Vulkan API.
• rust-gpu: Making Rust a first-class language and ecosystem for GPU shaders.
• lyon: 2D graphics rendering on the GPU in rust using path tessellation.

learning materials

• learn-wgpu: Guide for using gfx-rs's wgpu library.
• tour-of-wgsl: This repo contains a simple tour of WGSL static site generator. The purpose is to provide an introduction to WGSL through examples which can be modified and run by the user.
• webgpufundamentals: This is a series of lessons or tutorials about webgpu.

Physics

• rapier: Rapier is a set of 2D and 3D physics engines for games, animation, and robotics.
• bevy_xpbd: 2D and 3D physics engine based on Extended Position Based Dynamics for Bevy.

Games

• veloren: An open world, open source voxel RPG inspired by Dwarf Fortress and Cube World.
• jumpy: Tactical 2D shooter in fishy pixels style. Made with Rust-lang and Bevy.

Bevy Engine

Books

• official book
• bevy-cheatbook: This is a reference-style book for the Bevy game engine.
• taintedcoders.com

Tutorials

• Official examples
• Creating a Snake Clone in Rust, with Bevy
• Platformer in Bevy
• Extreme Bevy: Making a p2p web game with rust and rollback netcode

Ecosystem

Category	Popular Plugins
UI	bevy_egui: This crate provides a Egui integration for the Bevy game engine.
Physical	bevy_rapier: 2D and 3D physics engines for the Bevy game engine. bevy_xpbd: 2D and 3D physics engine based on Extended Position Based Dynamics for Bevy.
Animation	bevy_tweening: Tweening animation plugin.
Networking	bevy_renet: A network crate for Server/Client with cryptographically secure authentication and encypted packets. bevy_ggrs: GGRS P2P rollback networking library.
Input	leafwing-input-manager: A straightforward stateful input manager.
Camera	smooth-bevy-cameras: Bevy camera controllers with buttery, exponential smoothing.
Tilemap	bevy_ecs_tilemap: A tilemap rendering crate for bevy which is more ECS friendly. bevy_ecs_ldtk: ECS-friendly ldtk plugin for bevy, leveraging bevy_ecs_tilemap.
Particle	bevy_hanabi: A GPU particle system plugin.
Editor Tool	bevy-inspector-egui: Inspector plugin for the bevy game engine.

Communities

• Discord
• Github Discussions
• Reddit

Games

• Bevy Jam #3 Submissions
• Bevy Jam #2 Submissions
• Games in Bevy Assets
• Cargo Space: A coop 2d space game where you build a ship and fly it through space looking for new parts, fighting pirates and the environment.
• Tunnet: Build, debug and optimize a computer network in an underground facility.
• Molecoole: An action shooter roguelike.
• Tiny Glade: A small relaxing game about doodling castles.
• Roids: A PVE mining and survival game in space.
• Hytopia: A collaborative and independent video game.
• Time of Progress: A City Builder set during the Industrial Revolution.
• Zoolitaire: Based on the family favorite board game: Peg Solitaire but with cute zoo animals and many different levels and scenarios to challenge young and old.
• GLOW: GLOW is an addictive physics-based arcade game that will challenge you to your limits.

Internals

• Everything You Never Wanted To Know About Rendering

Other Awesome Lists

• awesome-gamedev: A collection of free software and free culture resources for making amazing games.
• awesome-learn-gamedev: A curated collection of game development learning resources.
• games: A list of popular/awesome video games, add-ons, maps, etc. hosted on GitHub. Any genre. Any platform. Any engine.
• awesome-one-person-games: A curated list of successul games, made (quite) entirely by a lone gamedev.
• magictools: A list of Game Development resources to make magic happen.
• GameNetworkingResources: A Curated List of Game Network Programming Resources.
• awesome-rust: A curated list of Rust code and resources.