Game engine architecture for small 2D engines, layer by layer
Game engine architecture for small 2D engines: the six layers, how data flows through one frame, immediate versus retained APIs, and where game state should live.
by Tendai Mukwena
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How to make a game engine: a tiny 2D engine in Rust, step by step
How to make a game engine in Rust without drowning: a window and a loop, input, quads, textures, a scene and audio last, plus what to skip and when not to bother.
by Kasimir Lund
How to make pixel art for a 2D game, from blank canvas to export
How to make pixel art for a 2D game: choosing a canvas size and palette, drawing a first sprite, outlines, clusters, hand anti-aliasing and clean export.
by Jun Takemura
Comfy 0.4 sprite culling and 4x faster rendering, explained
Comfy 0.4 brings roughly 4x faster sprite drawing, built-in culling, a SpatialHash helper and screenshot capture. How culling works and why your game does it best.
by Kasimir Lund
Comfy 0.3: user shaders, glyph atlas text and a 2.5D camera
Comfy 0.3 drops lifetimes from game state and adds user fragment shaders, its own TTF text, a perspective camera and LDtk. Why each matters in a 2D engine.
by Odalys Brisco
Comfy 0.2 release notes: context objects versus globals in Rust
Comfy 0.2 drops the EngineContext parameter for global functions and turns bloom off by default. A look at the change and the context versus globals debate.
by Tendai Mukwena
Comfy 2D Rust engine first release: a first look at v0.1
Comfy, a new open-source 2D Rust engine on wgpu, ships v0.1 with an immediate-mode API, globals by design and a small ECS. What it does and who it suits.
by Kasimir Lund