Rust game in the browser: shipping with WebAssembly to itch.io
How to ship a Rust game to the browser: the wasm32 target, WebGL2 or WebGPU, audio that waits for a click, async asset loading, file size and itch.io uploads.
by Kasimir Lund
System
Rust Gamedev
Writing games in Rust: crates, ownership patterns, state, assets and builds.
Getting started with wgpu: from a window to a textured quad
A friendly map of wgpu for game developers: instance, adapter, device, queue, surface, pipelines and bind groups, then the path to a textured quad and first errors.
by Odalys Brisco
ECS for 2D games: what it is, how it works, when to skip it
ECS for 2D games in plain words: entities, components and systems, archetypes versus sparse sets, the hecs and bevy_ecs style, and when a Vec of structs wins.
by Tendai Mukwena
Macroquad vs Bevy for your first 2D game in Rust
Macroquad or Bevy for a first 2D game in Rust? A fair look at API style, compile times, ECS, ecosystem and web export, plus a table to help you pick one.
by Kasimir Lund
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
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