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Newsletter 33: April 2022

tags: newsletter

Editors: @AngelOnFira, @17cupsofcoffee and @ozkriff

Another month has gone by, so it's time to put together the Rust Gamedev newsletter with April's news!

Current Schedule

The deadline for all section PRs is 8th April.

We may still accept PRs that are submitted later than this, as long as they're ready before the newsletter's release, but this isn't guaranteed. If you want your section to be included, don't leave it till the last minute!

How to Contribute

If you want to help writing the newsletter:

  • Read CONTRIBUTING.md.
  • Choose one or more of the "🆓 free" sections listed below, and leave a comment letting us know you want to work on them.
    • The links in brackets (like "1, 2, 3") are suggestions of links to include in the section. Feel free to add more!
    • The username listed next to the section (like "@ozkriff?") is a suggestion of who may want to pick up the work (usually the project's developer, or someone who has expressed interest in the past).
    • You are not obligated to write a section if you're tagged or your project is listed! You're welcome to ask someone else to write the section, or to ask for your project to be excluded from this month's post.
    • Extra sections not listed in the plan are welcomed - just leave a comment and open a PR!
  • Write a short overview in the newsletter's Markdown file, making sure to follow the style guidelines (see below).
  • Send a PR to the source branch (example: N15: A/B Street #336).
  • Mention this issue in your PR's description to link it all together.

Style Guidelines

The full style guide is in CONTRIBUTING.md, but here are the most important rules:

  • Write in third-person perspective.
  • Each line must be 80 characters or less, for ease of reviewing/diffing.
  • Only one image per section is allowed.
    • The maximum size is 300kb for static images and 2.5mb for GIFs.
    • The image should come before the text, and must have alt text for accessibility.
    • Prefer static images to GIFs, to keep the page load times down.
  • Each section should be under 1000 characters, and under 6 paragraphs.
    • This only applies to the rendered text, not the markup.
  • Keep formatting minimal - no bold/italics/etc.
  • Avoid long/nested bullet point lists - no changelogs!

Please use these templates as a starting point:

Games/apps/libraries:

### [Game name]

![alt text](img)
_optional image label_

[Game name] ([GitHub], [Discord], [Twitter]) by [@nickname]
is... {short project description in one sentence}.

{An overview of the recent updates with links to more details}.

_Discussions: [/r/rust_gamedev](link), [Twitter](link), [etc](link)_

[Game name]: http://example.com

Articles/blog posts/videos/etc:

### [Article name]

![alt text](img)
_optional image label_

[@nickname] published an [article] about...
{overview what the resource is about}.

_Discussions: [/r/rust_gamedev](link), [Twiter](link), [etc](link)_

[Article name]: http://example.com

Current Structure & Status

Below is our current planned structure for the newsletter, and the status of each PR (which we'll try to keep updated).

This is not an exhaustive list - if you have your own project that you want to write about, just make a comment on this issue and open a PR!

Rust Gamedev Meetup

  • Details of this month's meetup - 🚧 WIP by @AngelOnFira

Rust Graphics Meetup

  • Call for Presenters - 🆓 free 🚧 WIP by @AngelOnFira

Game Updates

  • Way of Rhea - ✔️ done by @MasonRemaley
    Veloren - 🚧 WIP by @AngelOnFira
    Bitgun (1, 2) - 🚧 WIP by @shosanna
    Last of the Sky Folk (1, 2) - 🆓 free (@kettle11?)
    Melbourne Lockdown Simulator (1) - 🆓 free (@kanerogers?)
    heute-nicht (1, 2) - 🆓 free
    Oasis of Lost Hope (1) - 🆓 free (@setzer22, @Bromeon?)
    Extremely Extreme Sports (1, 2) - 🆓 free (@kuviman?)

Learning Material Updates

  • Game Development with Rust and WebAssembly (1) - 🚧 WIP by @paytonrules
    Why I choose to build my game from scratch (1) - 🚧 WIP by @heavyrain266
    Brontefy Me # 2 (1, 2) - 🆓 free (@hedgein?)
    Bevy engine tutorial series (1) - 🆓 free (@PhaestusFox?)
    Bevy 0.6 to 0.7 upgrade guide (1) - 🆓 free (@PhaestusFox?)
    Rust multi-threading code review (1) - 🆓 free (@TanTanDev?)

Engine Updates

  • Bevy 0.7 (1) - ✔️ done by @cart
    DIMS (1) - ✔️ done by @FredrikNoren
    Hotham VR Engine demo - 🚧 WIP by @kanerogers
    Eldiron (1, 2) - 🚧 WIP by @markusmoenig
    Fyrox - 🆓 free (@mrDIMAS?)

Tooling Updates

  • Vismut (1) - ✔️ done by @lukors
    Noumenal (1) - 🚧 WIP by @HackerFoo
    Graphite - free (@Keavon?)

Library Updates

  • SuInput (1, 2) - 🆓 free (@Sorenon?)
    tween (1) - 🆓 free (@sanbox-irl?)
    cosync (1) - 🆓 free (@sanbox-irl?)
    Bevy Blender (1) - 🆓 free (@jeraldamo?)
    Notan (1) - 🆓 free (@Nazariglez)

Other News

  • Bullet points of any interesting news that doesn't have its own section - 🚧 WIP by @ozkriff

Discussions

  • Simulating less powerful machines (1) - 🆓 free

Jobs

  • Project Name (1) - 🆓 free (@AngelOnFira?)

Publishing Steps

  • Final review - by everyone
    Publish - by @AngelOnFira
    Post on /r/rust, /r/rust_gamedev, /r/gamedev, URLO, twitter.com/rust_gamedev - by @AngelOnFira
    Pin thread on Twitter - by @ozkriff
    Add comment links - by @AngelOnFira
    Add a draft of next month's newsletter - by @AngelOnFira

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HackerFoo

HackerFoo commented on May 1, 2022

@HackerFoo
Contributor

I would like to work on the section on Noumenal. Thanks.

kanerogers

kanerogers commented on May 1, 2022

@kanerogers
Contributor

I can do a section on engine updates for Hotham! 😀

paytonrules

paytonrules commented on May 2, 2022

@paytonrules
Contributor

I'd like to add a reference to a new book Game Development with Rust and WebAssembly to the learning materials. I wrote it so if that's inappropriate I won't.

markusmoenig

markusmoenig commented on May 2, 2022

@markusmoenig
Contributor

I will do the Eldiron section, thanks!

AngelOnFira

AngelOnFira commented on May 2, 2022

@AngelOnFira
MemberAuthor

@paytonrules it should be fine :)

heavyrain266

heavyrain266 commented on May 2, 2022

@heavyrain266
Contributor

I would like to work on section with "Why I choose to build my game from scratch" since it's my own post.

lukors

lukors commented on May 2, 2022

@lukors
Contributor

I'll do Vismut, and the github username for it is me. :)

cart

cart commented on May 3, 2022

@cart
Contributor

Just grabbed Bevy 0.7

shosanna

shosanna commented on May 5, 2022

@shosanna
Contributor

Hey, I will write about BITGUN as we just released the game! :)

FredrikNoren

FredrikNoren commented on May 5, 2022

@FredrikNoren
Contributor

Just added a PR for Dims

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