quicksilver
A simple framework for 2D games on desktop and web (by ryanisaacg)
macroquad
Cross-platform game engine in Rust. (by not-fl3)
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| quicksilver | macroquad | |
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| 4 | 56 | |
| 782 | 2,738 | |
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| 0.0 | 7.8 | |
| over 1 year ago | 4 days ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | 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.
quicksilver
Posts with mentions or reviews of quicksilver.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-02.
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Rust alternative for PyGame ?
Another simple 2d framework that targeted wasm and desktop was https://github.com/ryanisaacg/quicksilver but unfortunately it was abandoned :( and never had android support.
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I want to learn Rust by creating game running in the web browser. Which SDK do you recommend?
quicksilver, though not really being developed anymore is still pretty good.
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Paddlers (Rust Browser Game) 0.2.1 Feature Overview
Thanks! I'm currently not using an engine, it's all done "from scratch". None of the available engines quite had the WASM support I wanted. I started with Quicksilver but it was not flexible enough and it is no longer actively developed.
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Good basic rendering & input library
quicksilver is a simple framework you can use. Sadly the main developer stopped working on it (PR's are still accepted though) but it is still pretty solid. It also has WASM as first class support and thus makes sure that its api is a good fit for the limitations that browsers put on code. (So, loading assets is async, your main loop is done using async, etc).
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...
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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.
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2D game with barebone graphics library
Compare the basic examples to draw a simple shape like a triangle in wgpu (https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/blob/master/wgpu/examples/hello-triangle/main.rs), and in macroquad (https://github.com/not-fl3/macroquad/blob/master/examples/basic_shapes.rs).
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C++'s smaller cleaner language
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.
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Fish Folk: Jumpy v0.5 – completed MVP of Bevy rewrite
Macroquad. https://github.com/not-fl3/macroquad
- SDL2 vs Winit/Pixels/CPAL/etc. Is going "native" really worth it?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing quicksilver and macroquad you can also consider the following projects:
miniquad - Cross platform rendering in Rust
bevy - A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust
ggez - Rust library to create a Good Game Easily
pixels - A tiny hardware-accelerated pixel frame buffer. 🦀
raylib - A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming
gdnative - Rust bindings for Godot 3
nakama - Distributed server for social and realtime games and apps.
nannou - A Creative Coding Framework for Rust.
vulkano-examples - Examples of using vulkano
wgpu - Cross-platform, safe, pure-rust graphics api.
piston - A modular game engine written in Rust
Tetra - 🎮 A simple 2D game framework written in Rust