gloss
Painless 2D vector graphics, animations and simulations. (by benl23x5)
macroquad
Cross-platform game engine in Rust. (by not-fl3)
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0.0 | 7.8 | |
over 1 year ago | 2 days ago | |
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MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
gloss
Posts with mentions or reviews of gloss.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-18.
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About Gloss
That Picture type is what does all the heavy lifting. Have you read its Haddocks already? There's an example using play in gloss-examples if it helps you (it just renders the most recent event as text on the screen). When I was new to Haskell and gloss, I found "following the types" helped. There's only a limited amount of things you can do with Picture, and those limitations can help guide you.
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Are there more elegant languages for generative art and creative coding?
Haskell is the purest of the pure, and a fun language. Never done graphics with it but I see Gloss looks decent - https://github.com/benl23x5/gloss.
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Can't install WxHaskell on Windows
If you just want to draw stuff on a window, then have a look at gloss (a very simple yet useful interface to OpenGL) and sdl2 (which gives bindings to the SDL library).
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Using gloss on Windows
This question is in the gloss FAQ:
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Best beginner-friendly 2D library
Ideally, I'd like something like gloss in Haskell.
macroquad
Posts with mentions or reviews of macroquad.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-14.
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Deploying your Rust WASM Game to Web with Shuttle & Axum
See the macroquad docs for full details on building a WASM game.
- Not only Unity...
- Macroquad: Cross-platform game engine in Rust
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What would you recommend for simple 2D game (in The Binding of Isaac style)?
Any opinion on ggez? I don't like how everything in macroquad is global state https://github.com/not-fl3/macroquad/issues/333
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Help with egui basics?
I prefer examples like the ones in Macroquad: https://github.com/not-fl3/macroquad/tree/master/examples. I'm not against advanced examples, but the priority should be extremely clear, minimal, self contained ones.
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HELP: Unique ID's starting at 0 for each Type, advancing by one.
There were even discussions about deprecating static mut. Even if you think you got it right, there are too many things that might go wrong, like aliasing. For example, macroquad needs a complete rewrite because of their static mut.
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Learning project - board game Yinsh using macroquad
It's based on macroquad and you can play the wasm version here: https://unvirtual.github.io/yinsh-rs/
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I love rust, I have a pet peeve with the community
The reality is that I have used unsafe that is also unsound out of convenience because fixing it is a papercut too many. And this tends to be common! I know enough to spot unsoundness in other projects (sometimes even early). But not enough to be confident in my own abilities to write sound unsafe code. Why? Because it's really flipping hard, that's why!
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Limitations of wasm for a small board game?
Given that you are making a game, you might want to consider using a game framework such as https://github.com/not-fl3/macroquad/.Macroquad has full support for WASM, and will allow you to render your game both locally and in the browser via WASM depending on how you compile it.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing gloss and macroquad you can also consider the following projects:
OpenGL - Haskell bindings to OpenGL
miniquad - Cross platform rendering in Rust
nanovg - NanoVG Haskell bindings
bevy - A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust
GLUT - Haskell bindings to GLUT
ggez - Rust library to create a Good Game Easily
brick - A declarative Unix terminal UI library written in Haskell
pixels - A tiny hardware-accelerated pixel frame buffer. 🦀
Rasterific - A drawing engine in Haskell
raylib - A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming
pcf-font - PCF font parsing and rendering library.
gdnative - Rust bindings for Godot 3