arewegameyet VS detonator

Why Rust? Because I wanted to use far more concurrency than usually seen in games to overcome the fundamental performance problem in metaverse clients. The graphics stack works well enough to do this.[1] But it needs to get faster and do a few more things. Basically, I need three.js for Rust. I sort of have it, but the Rust crate has been abandoned, has bugs, and now I have to maintain it.

For a while, there was much enthusiasm for Rust game dev.[2] But it kind of ran down.

[1] https://video.hardlimit.com/w/7usCE3v2RrWK6nuoSr4NHJ

[2] https://arewegameyet.rs

arewegameyet

"While the ecosystem is still very young, you can find enough libraries and game engines to sink your teeth into doing some slightly experimental gamedev."

For practical uses of Rust? Whatever you want to program. People use Rust for game development, GUIs, web dev, and more. Anything where abstraction, speed, concurrency, memory safety, etc. are important, Rust will probably be a good fit.

Are we game yet? "Almost. We have the blocks, bring your own glue"

Not seeing anything else that's close to photo realistic. I'm hitting the tough bugs first all too often. More than half my time has been spent on ecosystem problems.

I also know of https://arewegameyet.rs/

Yes — and in fact, Firefox's implementation has been the go-to graphics API for folks trying to make Rust gamedev happen for a long time now. Bevy Engine's renderer is built on it, for example.

I really agree, I think that making the tests as easy as possible to get going goes a long way towards a code base that actually has tests.

I have something very similar.

https://github.com/ensisoft/detonator/blob/master/base/test_...

Borrowed heavily from boost.test.minimal and used to be a single header but but over the years I've had to add a single translation unit!

My takeaway is that if you keep your code base in a condition where tests are always passing you need much less complications in your testing tools and their error reporting and fault tolerance etc. !

Don't want to be a bother but if had the time I'd love to hear your thoughts on this

https://github.com/ensisoft/detonator

It's a (2D only) game engine I've been putting together for years and obviously not yet at a level comparable to Godot, maybe more like haxe or lowe2d.

e) built-in help

that is integrated in my game engine's editor.

You can find more details on my GitHub

https://github.com/ensisoft/detonator