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Note from the editor:

Hey everyone! We're starting to change out the lead editor of the newsletter each month, so that the workload isn't so much each month. This month, it's me! I'm Forest, or AngelOnFira. I also edit the weekly blogs for Veloren, co-host the Rust Gamedev Podcast, and run the monthly Rust Gamedev meetup.

We're also going to be transitioning to having authors or volunteers write about their own content, rather than the editing team doing it all at the end 💯 This means if you want to see your work in the newsletter, you have to write it yourself! If you're not able to write about your work, feel free to comment and I can assign it 🆓 free. We're working on taking some of the load off the editing team where we can with this. Best to keep this sustainable!

Also, we want to make sure contributing to the newsletter feels open to anyone who wants to write a section about their project. If you have anything you can write about, just add a comment to this issue and I'll add it to the todo list 😄

Newsletter 19

Feel free to suggest sections!

If you want to help writing the newsletter:

  • Read CONTRIBUTING.md.
  • Grab some of the "🆓 free" sections by leaving a comment like "I'd like to work on {section_name_1} and {section_name_2}".
  • Mentions in brackets (like "🆓 free (@ozkriff?)") are just an invitation to write the corresponding section if you want, but anyone is free to take it.
  • Write a short overview:
    • Use provided links as a starting point.
    • Try to maintain a consistent style with the rest of the newsletter and run markdownlint, please.
    • Insert line breaks (softbreak) at 80 chars, please.
    • DM me on Discord or Telegram if there're any questions.
  • 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.

Schedule

The deadline for all section PRs is 2021.03.04 2021.03.06.
Review will take place on 2021.03.07
Release will be done on 2021.03.08


⚠️ It was decided to try a shorter and more limited section format: ⚠️

  • Only one image (<300kb) or GIF (<2.5mb) before the text. With an optional caption and a mandatory alt text.

  • All the (rendered) text should be under 1000 characters (including spaces and punctuation) and under 6 paragraphs (without any subsections, etc).

  • No bold/italic/etc formatting - only links and one plain list without nesting per section.

  • Third-person perspective.

  • 80 chars per MD line and no other markdownlint warnings on CI.

  • Only the following simple templates are allowed:

    See the templates

    For games/apps/libs:

    # [Gamename]
    
    ![alt text](img)
    _optional image label_
    
    [Gamename] ([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), [Twiter](link), [etc](link)_
    
    {md links block}

    For articles/videos/etc:

    # [Articlename]
    
    ![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)_
    
    {md links block}

CONTRIBUTING.md isn't updated for this yet.

Current Structure & Status

(I'll try to keep this updated)

If you have your own project that you want to write about, just make a comment on this issue!

  • Meetup - @AngelOnFira
    Rust GameDev Podcast Update
  • Game Updates
  • Learning Material Updates
  • Engine Updates
  • Library & Tooling Updates
    • rkyv v0.3 - ✔️ done by @djkoloski
    • Mun - ✔️ done by @Wodann
    • ldtk-rs - @zicklag
    • bevy_ldtk - @zicklag
    • gfx/wgpunaga - ✔️ done by @kvark
    • egui - ✔️ done by @emilk
    • rafx - ✔️ done by @aclysma
    • basic-universal-rs - ✔️ done by @aclysma
    • Distill - ✔️ done by kabergstrom
    • Graphite - 🚧 WIP by Keavon
    • Speedy2D (1)
    • gfx-rs ecosystem releases v0.7 (1)
    • kira - (@tesselode)
    • gl33 - 1
    • Dimforge
    • Legion ECS v0.4.0 (1)
    • bevy_egui - @mvlabat
    • imgui-rs - @sanbox-irl

Final steps:

  • final review
    publish
    post on /r/rust, /r/rust_gamedv, /r/gamedev, URLO, twitter.com/rust_gamedev
    add comment links
    add a draft of the 20 newsletter

Editors: @ozkriff @17cupsofcoffee @AngelOnFira

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djkoloski

djkoloski commented on Mar 1, 2021

@djkoloski
Contributor

I'd like to write about rkyv v0.4 (v0.3 was last newsletter).

dabreegster

dabreegster commented on Mar 1, 2021

@dabreegster
Contributor

I'll write about A/B Street

cdsupina

cdsupina commented on Mar 1, 2021

@cdsupina
Contributor

I'll write about Theta Wave. 👍

jakmeier

jakmeier commented on Mar 1, 2021

@jakmeier
Contributor

I'm happy to write about Paddlers

sanbox-irl

sanbox-irl commented on Mar 1, 2021

@sanbox-irl
Contributor

Unfortunately, no imgui-rs update this month. It's a biggie, and we won't have a release out till next newsletter

dezajno

dezajno commented on Mar 1, 2021

@dezajno
Contributor

I'll give some updates on Stellary 2 :)

voxelias

voxelias commented on Mar 1, 2021

@voxelias
Contributor

I take dotrix of course :)

pmathia0

pmathia0 commented on Mar 1, 2021

@pmathia0
Contributor

I take SeniorSKY

AlexEne

AlexEne commented on Mar 2, 2021

@AlexEne
Member

There's no dwarf.world update this week as I've been busy with other stuff since the last one. Will probably do something for the next one

zicklag

zicklag commented on Mar 2, 2021

@zicklag
Contributor

Man, it's already been a month! 😉

No updates yet on Bevy LDtk, ldtk-rs, or Bounty Bros this month.

17cupsofcoffee

17cupsofcoffee commented on Mar 2, 2021

@17cupsofcoffee
Collaborator

I'll pick up the Tetra section today (was 0.6 really this month??? what is time any more)

o2sh

o2sh commented on Mar 2, 2021

@o2sh
Contributor

I'll take teki

ozkriff

ozkriff commented on Mar 2, 2021

@ozkriff
Member

No Zemeroth updates this month

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