macroquad
Cross-platform game engine in Rust. (by not-fl3)
wgpu
Cross-platform, safe, pure-rust graphics api. (by gfx-rs)
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| macroquad | wgpu | |
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| 56 | 195 | |
| 2,774 | 10,910 | |
| - | 4.7% | |
| 7.8 | 9.9 | |
| 1 day ago | 2 days ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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.
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.
wgpu
Posts with mentions or reviews of wgpu.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-23.
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GPU Compute in the Browser at the Speed of Native: WebGPU Marching Cubes
Oh look it's subgroup support landing last week: https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/pull/5301
- 3D and 2D: Testing out my cross-platform graphics engine
- Warp Terminal is now available for Linux
- Linux version of Warp terminal is here
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Building the DirectX shader compiler better than Microsoft?
And wgpu has been doing this for years. Things like descriptor indexing are not exposed to the web but used by Rust (mostly) engines on native.
https://wgpu.rs/
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New Renderers for GTK
If they used https://wgpu.rs/ they would get directx and metal for free (:
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Show HN: WebGPU Particles Simulation
IIRC it was delayed multiple times. I think the first intent to ship from chrome was before 100 but they kept pushing it off. Firefox still does not support it. There are projects like wgpu[0] that wrap provide a higher level API and I have used some projects using it with no issues. WFIW I didn't see any issue with OP's demo either.
[0] https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu
- Deno 1.39: The Return of WebGPU
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How do I become a graphics programmer? – A guide from AMD Game Engineering team
wgpu, the Rust WebGPU implementation is the bee's knees. https://wgpu.rs/ You can use it beyond the web.
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There is anything like wgpu.rs for Zig?
There is anything like wgpu.rs for Zig? wgpu.rs is an abstraction on top of Vulkan, Metal, DirectX, etc...
What are some alternatives?
When comparing macroquad and wgpu you can also consider the following projects:
miniquad - Cross platform rendering in Rust
vulkano - Safe and rich Rust wrapper around the Vulkan API
bevy - A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust
tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.
ggez - Rust library to create a Good Game Easily
glow - GL on Whatever: a set of bindings to run GL anywhere and avoid target-specific code
pixels - A tiny hardware-accelerated pixel frame buffer. 🦀
rust-gpu - 🐉 Making Rust a first-class language and ecosystem for GPU shaders 🚧
raylib - A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming
gdnative - Rust bindings for Godot 3
bgfx - Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.