Amethyst VS thetawave-legacy

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?

That's in the pipeline. Check out https://github.com/thetawavegame/thetawave-legacy for a preview of some of the things that are coming.

Similarly, the InvasionFormation phase takes in an InvasionFormationPool parameter and spawns a vector of Spawnables with positions from that pool at random. Below is an example of an InvasionFormationPool called Level1Easy defined in spawner.ron.

I tried installing via cargo install --git https://github.com/amethyst/theta-wave which panics at runtime due to missing configuration files. Is there any reason why you don't bake the .ron files into the binary using the include_bytes! macro and replace Config::load with Config::load_bytes? Is it so the end-user can change the configuration without having to recompile?