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)
• [Chinese] Rust语言圣经
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Physics

• rapier: Rapier is a set of 2D and 3D physics engines for games, animation, and robotics.

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.

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

• bevy_rapier: 2D and 3D physics engines for the Bevy game engine.
• 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.
• bevy_mod_picking: Unofficial 3D mouse picking plugin for Bevy.
• bevy_mod_raycast: Unofficial plugin for raycasting in Bevy.
• bevy-inspector-egui: Inspector plugin for the bevy game engine.
• bevy_egui: This crate provides a Egui integration 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.

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.