5 Rust game engines to consider for your next project

• bevy

  574 32,489 9.9 Rust

  A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust

  

Bevy is another simple data-driven game engine. While it is still in the early stages of development and likely to undergo significant changes, this does not stop its vital features from shining.

• ECS_101

  1 109 3.8 C#

  This repository contains an introduction to Unity's new Entity Component System. The purpose of this is to help developers understand this paradigm, and why it is important to create performant games in Unity.

ECS makes Amethyst entirely thread-safe and avoids memory-locking of any sort. Learn more in the ECS infographic below:

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• RG3D

  40 3,193 9.8 Rust

  Discontinued 3D and 2D game engine written in Rust [Moved to: https://github.com/FyroxEngine/Fyrox]

  

Fyrox is a production-ready engine with extensive documentation and resources that focuses on 2D and 3D rendering. To use the Fyrox engine, add the following line to your Cargo.toml:

• Fyrox

  63 7,273 9.9 Rust

  3D and 2D game engine written in Rust

  

Besides being clear and easy to use, one of its popular features is the scene editor, which provides a scene preview as demonstrated in this example:

• StationIapetus

  20 285 8.8 Rust

  3rd person shooter in the very early development phase

Besides being clear and easy to use, one of its popular features is the scene editor, which provides a scene preview as demonstrated in this example:

• Piston-Tutorials

  2 540 3.8 Rust

  Tutorials for Piston

  

Make sure you check out this Piston repository to review some helpful examples and other necessary tutorials.

• nannou

  66 5,844 7.4 Rust

  A Creative Coding Framework for Rust.

  

Nannou is an open source game framework that is still in its early days. It is also more hands-on for developers, but it is still a popular game engine that is greatly in use at the moment. As of this writing, the Nannou crate has over 35,000 downloads.

• SaaSHub

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  SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

  

• rust-bindgen

  50 4,131 9.0 Rust

  Automatically generates Rust FFI bindings to C (and some C++) libraries.

  

However, remember Rust has interoperability with other languages, especially with C and C++. If there are no Rust libraries available for the functionality you’re looking for, you can use something like bindgen to access another library.

• crates.io

  662 2,811 10.0 Rust

  The Rust package registry

  

To me, Rust is a well-designed and very clean language. Though some consider Rust to have a steep learning curve, the extensive documentation and expanding crate registry can certainly help you quickly learn best practices.

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