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Top 23 Rust Gamedev Projects
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Project mention: Iced/Bevy/Dioxus developers debate open source ethics of reuse vs. recognition | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-27
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Project mention: A (not so) small library for terminal based game development | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-07-23
If pygamelib interests you, you might also be interested in Pyxel:
https://github.com/kitao/pyxel
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Sorry but this engine had(s) problems rendenring a rectangle with alpha channel 3 months ago (I'm assuming it was fixed).
Is it normal for Rust ecosystem to use software of this level of maturity?
https://github.com/FyroxEngine/Fyrox/discussions/725
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Another fantastic resource is the example game code in the gdext GitHub repo for a Dodge the Creeps game (which will sound familiar if you have followed the official Godot, GDScript-based, tutorial). You can try building it or just dip into for help to unblock if you get stuck working on your own game.
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It is indeed great for creating a prototype. After that, one can gradually migrate to Rust go benefit from faster execution times. The Rust bindings are in a pretty decent shape by now
https://godot-rust.github.io/
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Project mention: Pumpkin: A Modern Minecraft server written in Rust | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-15
Similar projects:
- Feather (Rust, abandoned) https://github.com/feather-rs/feather
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Project mention: Avian: 3D physics engine for the Bevy game engine | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-22
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It looks like they're still actively maintaining a bunch of rust crates, and they're still developing Wim (their blobby Roblox competitor written in rust).
They have pulled back from the rust ecosystem quite a bit though since repi (their former CTO) left shortly after The Finals released. They stopped all their FOSS sponsorships, and there was [this PR](https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/rust-ecosystem/commit/61f0e...) which definitely doesn't inspire confidence.
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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The "No Clear Winner" Era of Federated Microblogging
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Three-nanite: Unreal Nanite in Three.js
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Gamedev projects in Rust? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | bevy | 40,546 |
| 2 | egui | 25,680 |
| 3 | pyxel | 16,479 |
| 4 | Fyrox | 8,364 |
| 5 | Pumpkin | 5,102 |
| 6 | Ambient | 3,873 |
| 7 | gdext | 3,846 |
| 8 | gdnative | 3,644 |
| 9 | rx | 3,236 |
| 10 | valence | 3,089 |
| 11 | feather | 2,688 |
| 12 | avian | 2,228 |
| 13 | bevy-cheatbook | 2,157 |
| 14 | mun | 2,060 |
| 15 | ash | 2,046 |
| 16 | bevy_hanabi | 1,138 |
| 17 | Coffee | 1,117 |
| 18 | Tetra | 973 |
| 19 | kira | 946 |
| 20 | rust-ecosystem | 934 |
| 21 | notan | 921 |
| 22 | laminar | 842 |
| 23 | rendy | 819 |
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