Applications and Libraries

Learning materials:

• Learn wgpu tutorial
• Draw you a triangle for great good

Runtimes:

• Deno-wgpu (now upstreamed to Deno)

Middleware Libraries that can integrate with your existing wgpu application:

• iced - a cross-platform GUI library
• terra - large scale terrain renderer
• wgpu_glyph - for your text-y rendering needs
• wgpu-pbr - realtime PBR renderer for games
• ReUI - Renderer for User Interface
• emu - a GPGPU compute library
• smaa-rs - Post process anti-aliasing

Libraries that work with wgpu:

• coffee - a whole 2D engine
• rgx - a 2D graphics library
• imgui-wgpu - Dear ImGui interfacing
• pixels - the easiest way to create a hardware-accelerated pixel frame buffer
• kas - toolKit Abstraction System
• oxidator - RTS game engine
• nannou - a creative coding framework
• harmony - a modern 2D/3D engine
• brawlib - brawl file parser
• riddle - an SDL-like native library
• dotrix - 3D game engine for the "Mystic Game"
• rend3 - easy 3D library

Libraries that have support for wgpu:

• conrod - shader-based UI
• grr-2d - experimental 2D renderer
• lyon - a path tessellation library
• thyme - theme-able immediate mode GUI
• egui - pure Rust UI library
• femtovg - a 2D rendering library

Applications using wgpu:

• https://github.com/dskart/rustcraft (A simple Minecraft like engine)
• https://github.com/kvark/vange-rs (A Vangers game clone)
• https://git.koesters.xyz/timo/nbodysim (Physics N-body simulation)
• https://github.com/arnfaldur/deeper (rogue-like game and engine)
• https://github.com/kunalmohan/dodge-game (Simple driving game)
• https://github.com/expenses/hectic-rs (Small bullet hell game)
• https://github.com/MatusT/vis2-molecules (Render molecular structures)
• https://github.com/Wumpf/blub (3D fluid simulation)
• https://github.com/BVE-Reborn/bve-reborn (train simulator)
• https://github.com/cormac-obrien/richter (Quake renderer)
• https://github.com/Uriopass/Egregoria (society simulator)
• https://github.com/Vurich/goeld (half life clone)
• https://github.com/paulkernfeld/glx (city renderer)
• https://github.com/JMS55/sandbox (falling sand game)
• https://github.com/PolyMeilex/Neothesia (midi visualizer)
• https://github.com/antonok-edm/ampli-Fe (cross-platform VST2 plugin UI)
• https://github.com/Uriopass/Egregoria (society simulator)
• https://github.com/khuttun/labyrinth (labyrinth marble game)
• https://github.com/Yatekii/sailor (Open Street Map renderer)
• https://github.com/sajattack/wgputris (wgpu tetris clone)
• https://github.com/infinitesnow/kaleidoscope (?)
• https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle (Flash player)
• https://github.com/expenses/cheese (game about mice), also on itch.io
• https://github.com/Technici4n/voxel-rs (minecraft clone)
• https://github.com/adamnemecek/shadertoy (shadertoy)
• https://github.com/dskart/rustcraft (another minecraft clone)
• https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/48/depth-first-search (space dogfighting game)
• https://github.com/niklaskorz/linon/ (non-linear ray casting)

Commercial applications:

• https://www.dungeonfog.com/

Other interesting projects:

• https://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/rayray/ (ray-tracer with wgpu-native on Zig)