Airshipper VS learn-wgpu

Windows user will get it by the usual auto-update, AUR is already updated. Flathub will update soon. All downloads can be found here: https://veloren.net/download/

You can follow flathub installation : https://veloren.net/download/

Most probably you have out-of-date version. First, you should have Airshipper launcher installed. Then run game using the launcher and it will be up-to-date. If you get the message again, probably you should quit the game, press "Update" button in the launcher and launch updated version. Also see https://veloren.net/download/

According to the Veloren website, provided they’re using the net.veloren.airshipper flatpak, it is official. The unofficial Veloren/Airshipper packages are the Ubuntu PPA and Copr RPM packages

To join, you can download the game for free at veloren.net and create an account, then launch the game and hop on the default server. See you there!

Interestingly their launcher GitHub readme provides installation instruction for NixOS users but their website does not mention it.

Launcher GitHub page: https://github.com/veloren/Airshipper

such a cash grab that they're releasing it as free and open source

You don't have to be professional for a bug report, the developers will help you if needed, just use the issue section of the repo https://github.com/veloren/Airshipper

Source: https://veloren.net/download/

Nice.

Speaking of Snake game, if you want to go even deeper, you can try to use the wgpu crate to combine Rust and WebGPU to write everything from scratch. Here is the tutorial:

https://sotrh.github.io/learn-wgpu/#what-is-wgpu

I once wrote a code editor with wgpu, from font rendering to char/line state management (very rough) for music live coding:

https://github.com/glicol/glicol-wgpu

It runs in browsers, even including Safari!

https://sotrh.github.io/learn-wgpu/ This is probably the best resource out there for learning wgpu specifically. If you're unfamiliar with graphics, the learnopengl one is good. If you've got experience though, jumping right into that one is a shout or looking at some vulkan ones as they're pretty similar in terms of architecture.

- https://sotrh.github.io/learn-wgpu

Most of The WGPU I learnt is from https://sotrh.github.io/learn-wgpu/ but it doesn't really talk about designing n stuff, I thought of checking out the source code for Bevy or even games like veloren. But well, their codebases are pretty big to get started in the first place.

So I was wondering if opting for option 1 would be better to begin with. OpenGL has a much bigger community and wgpu only has its documentation which I hear is not quite up there yet. There is this excellent tutorial for wgpu that I read through, but it seems like wgpu can be a lot more complicated than starting with OpenGL.

I started with wgpu tutorial (https://sotrh.github.io/learn-wgpu/) since I like the idea of portability and it's a Rust-first library, but it seems I'm missing some foundations of how CG works in general: the code is given, a little of explanation like it assumes I already know something, maybe I'm wrong, but I wish there was a longer explicit version.

If you haven't seen it: https://sotrh.github.io/learn-wgpu/ is a good introduction that will explain most of what you asked, then can refer to rend3d or bevys renderer to see how a render graph works.