Amethyst VS macroquad

Yep, we do this, it works great! We stole it from hecs and Amethyst before us. There's a nice write-up of the theory in the scheduler rework the team has been working on for the past few months.

Rust also has seemingly better libraries for the purpose. Both Bevy and Amethyst are available, and plenty more.

Amethyst

I recently stumbled upon a short YouTube video of somebody building a roguelike game in Rust. From there, jumping from resource to resource, I ended up going through (part) of this massive (and awesome) tutorial by Herbert Wolverson about his Rust library bracket_lib. In this tutorial, Wolverson builds a roguelike game with colored text characters. After reading through, I felt like writing another type of game in Rust, so I looked at the available Rust game engines. The most popular, seems to be Amethyst, but it looks like they halted their development efforts. Second in line was Bevy. People are using it, support for Android and iOS is on the way, uses an ECS and have some usage examples: looks good.

Depends on my goals. I year ago I wanted to learn rust, so I used piston for a gamejam. (There are several rust engines including bevy, piston, amethyst. They probably vary in quality, features, and constraints.) Piston was a terrible experience because compilation is slow even on that tiny project.

And there's already a couple of surprisingly full-featured 3D engines already out there. Most notably Amethyst.

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Is anyone having this problem? I can't connect to rocket.rs, actix.rs and amethyst.rs servers. I would play at https://tera.netlify.app/, but people out there is really toxic. I heard that Rust is getting an update while playing in a Rust server, just then rust server freezes and goes down.

Or should I jump directly in one of the bigger engines like Amethyst, Bevy or other?

Comparing raylib to bevy is like comparing a scooter to a sports car. They're not particularly comparable in functionality or design. If you want a fairer comparison, see macroquad.

Macroquad. https://github.com/not-fl3/macroquad

Macroquad is also an option.

I personally think that macroquad would be easier to deal with as a beginner. For example look at this arkanoid example (play it online here). It lets you design things as you want and also support WASM.

I think you’re looking for Macroquad

So how is that any counterpoint? If anything, that sounds like an advantage. No one claims that Rust is infallible. Heck, there are even popular crates that run into pitfalls(e.g. Macroquad violating the aliasing rule). Rust just has really impactful defaults, and you need to opt in in small areas to tell it that "you know what you are doing". And if something goes wrong, it's just in those small parts. But again, this has nothing to do with disabling the Borrow checker..

yeah, it's a known issue and there're plans to fix it. you can upvote and follow it here: https://github.com/not-fl3/macroquad/issues/333

Depending on the game you want to make and your target platform. In my opinion the best is Bevy, you can use the dynamic feature for fast compile time and fast iteration. If you want something small Macroquad is a great option, it has a great compile time.