Are we game yet? – A guide to the Rust game development ecosystem

• gdnative

  93 3,565 7.2 Rust

  Rust bindings for Godot 3

  

• femtovg

  32 748 7.8 Rust

  Antialiased 2D vector drawing library written in Rust

  

Only tangentially related but if you are looking for a 2d graphics crate peep femtovg https://github.com/femtovg/femtovg

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• rust-mini-games

  3 30 0.0 Rust

  Mini games made in Rust

Tangentially related - if anyone is new to Rust and wants to see some simple mini text game examples, I've been working on a bunch [0]. It also includes some more complicated text games:

Asylum - Choose your own adventure style interactive narrative

Knights and Barbarians - Simple turned based strategy game

Legend of the Rusty Dragon - Simple adventure game inspired by Legend of the Red Dragon

[0] https://github.com/Syn-Nine/rust-mini-games

• cxx

  97 5,527 9.3 Rust

  Safe interop between Rust and C++

cxx [1] is a relatively recent effort to enable safe interop with C++.

Mozilla has also published information on how they are rewriting components in Rust and integrating them into the Firefox codebase, though they were primarily going through C apis.

[1] https://github.com/dtolnay/cxx

• cppmm

  3 64 0.0 C++

  A prototype generator for creating customized C and Rust bindings to C++ libraries

  

It is called C++-- [1].

At this time we only target the VFX C++ ecosystem but I'd be surprised if people wouldn't use (and extend) this to cover a broader set of C++ libs.

Maybe you can give an example of an C++ API that you deem not "translatable to C"?

[1] https://github.com/vfx-rs/cppmm

• bevy

  574 32,489 9.9 Rust

  A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust

  

You might want to look at bevy, there are some great tutorials available for it: https://bevyengine.org/

• wgpu

  195 10,995 9.9 Rust

  Cross-platform, safe, pure-rust graphics api.

  

You should check out wgpu for rendering https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu.

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• love

  258 4,415 9.7 C++

  LÖVE is an awesome 2D game framework for Lua.

  

If you want to experience the high level game dev fun, don't use Rust, I recommend look at

[0] love2d

[1] PICO-8

[2] Clickteam Fusion

[3] Godot

[4] Stencyl

[0] https://love2d.org/

• rustc_codegen_cranelift

  44 1,450 9.7 Rust

  Cranelift based backend for rustc

  

Strictly speaking rustc has a dependency on LLVM, which is in C++, but you could use the rustc_codegen_cranelift backend [1] and get pretty much everything to be pure Rust. Unless you count the libc dependency, in which case, um, I guess you could use relibc [2]? And if you think relying on OS syscalls implemented in not-Rust is cheating, then you could just use Redox directly ;)

[1] https://github.com/bjorn3/rustc_codegen_cranelift

[2] https://github.com/redox-os/relibc

• shotcaller

  16 141 7.3 Rust

  Discontinued A moddable RTS/MOBA game made with bracket-lib and minigene.

  

https://github.com/amethyst/shotcaller

We’re happy to help any newcomers along on our Discord: https://discord.gg/qvJyTYM

• nico

  10 611 4.2 Nim

  a Game Framework in Nim inspired by Pico-8.

Some more fun high level frameworks:

- HaxeFlixel (https://haxeflixel.com/) (Extremely portable)

- Phaser (https://phaser.io/) (HTML5 framework)

- Nico (https://github.com/ftsf/nico) (The PICO-8 API in Nim)

- Pixel Vision 8 (https://pixelvision8.github.io/PixelVision8Website/) (Another fantasy console)

• veloren

  60 - -

Since I haven't seen it mentioned in the comments, Veloren is a FOSS cube world inspired game that's developed entirely in Rust. Looks simply stunning and I have high hopes for it.

https://veloren.net/

https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren

• TIC-80

  134 4,777 9.2 C

  TIC-80 is a fantasy computer for making, playing and sharing tiny games.

A bunch of other comments threw out the Pico-8 I wanted to recommend the Tic80 as an open source alternative.

https://tic80.com/

I just started playing around with it and honestly, I like it a lot.

I've never used Pico-8 before, but from what I understand the Tic80 is pretty much the same, but with about twice the 'specs' of the pico-8.

The community is a lot smaller, but it'd be awesome to see it get more support.

It gives you a nice integrated environment for code, art, SFX and music, with limitations that make it more likely to avoid feature scope and actually letting a solo Dev finish a full game in a reasonable time frame.

• cargo-html

  1 9 2.4 TypeScript

  create self-contained HTML programs

Neat! I used these as an excuse to play with / work on WASM build tools / WASI interop. I've uploaded a built version to github so you can play them directly in your browser:

https://github.com/MaulingMonkey/cargo-html/wiki/Examples#ru...

I've sent a couple of PRs for things I found useful - feel free to ignore them if they're not to your liking ;)

• autocxx

  17 2,049 7.7 Rust

  Tool for safe ergonomic Rust/C++ interop driven from existing C++ headers

  

True, Google is at least trying to make it easier to bind to C++ [0]. It's still pretty experimental, though.

0: https://github.com/google/autocxx

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