Newsletter 18

[ozkriff]

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.

The deadline for all section PRs is 2021.02.03.

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⚠️ 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)

• Meetup (1, 2) - ✔️ done by @AngelOnFira in N18: Rust Gamedev Meetup #490
• Rust GameDev Podcast 5 (1, 2) - ✔️ done by @patchfx in NK18: Rust Game Dev Podcast #461
• Game Updates
  • Fish Game (1, 2, 3) - ✔️ done by @not-fl3 in N18: fishgame #478
  • Station Iapetus (1, 2) - ✔️ done by @mrDIMAS in N18: Add rg3d + Station Iapetus #471
  • teki (1, 2, 3) - ✔️ done by @o2sh in N18: teki #456
  • oicana (1, 2) - ✔️ done by @NiklasEi in N18: Oicana #475
  • SeniorSKY - ✔️ done by @pmathia0 in N18: SeniorSKY #455 #466
  • Flesh - ✔️ done by @Im-Oab in N18: Add flesh #470
  • Bounty Bros - ✔️ done by @zicklag in N18: Bounty Bros. #473
  • Stellary 2 - ✔️ done by @dezajno in N18: Stellary 2 #476
  • A/B Street (1, 2) - ✔️ done by @dabreegster in N18: A/B Street #469
  • dwarf.world (1) - ✔️ done by @AlexEne in N18: added dwarf-world #474
  • Way of Rhea - ✔️ done by @MasonRemaley in N18: Way of Rhea #479
  • Paddlers 0.2 (1) - ✔️ done by @jakmeier in Paddlers for Newsletter 18 #455 #465
  • Theta Wave - ✔️ done by @cdsupina in N18: Theta Wave #480
  • Harvest Hero - ✔️ done by @Bombfuse in N18: Harvest Hero #482
  • Antorum (1) - ✔️ done by @Dooskington in N18: Antorum #458
  • Shotcaller (1, 2) - ✔️ done by @erlend-sh in N18: Shotcaller #486
  • Veloren (1) - ✔️ done by @AngelOnFira in N18: Veloren #489
  • Zemeroth (1) - ✔️ done by @ozkriff in N18: Zemeroth #493
• Learning Material Updates
  • Hands-on-Rust new chapters (1) - ✔️ done by @ozkriff in N18: Learning Materials #484
  • Triangle from Scratch: Win and WASM (1, 2, 3) - ✔️ done by @ozkriff in N18: Learning Materials #484
  • Rust Executable's Icon in Windows (1, 2) - ✔️ done by @ozkriff in N18: Learning Materials #484
  • Exploring WebSocket with Rust and Tide (1) - ✔️ done by @pepoviola in N18: Exploring WebSocket with Rust and Tide #481
• Engine Updates
  • ggez v0.6-rc0 (1) - ✔️ done by @icefoxen in NL18: ggez section. #472
  • Tetra (1) - ✔️ done by @17cupsofcoffee in N18: Tetra #457
  • Dotrix v0.7 (1) - ✔️ done by @Lowentwickler in N18: Dotrix #488
  • rg3d & rusty-editor - ✔️ done by @mrDIMAS in N18: Add rg3d + Station Iapetus #471
• Library & Tooling Updates
  • rkyv v0.3 (1) - ✔️ done by @djkoloski in N18: rkyv #459
  • Mun - ✔️ done by @Wodann in N18: Mun #483
  • gamelisp v0.2 (1) - ✔️ done by @ozkriff in N18: Add gamelisp, dcli, shader-playground, chess #492
  • ldtk-rs - ✔️ done by @zicklag in N18: LDtk-rs #464
  • bevy_ldtk - ✔️ done by @zicklag in N18: bevy_ldtk #462
  • kira v0.4 (1) - ✔️ done by @tesselode in N18: kira #463
  • Dimforge (1, 2) - ✔️ done by @AngelOnFira in N18: Dimforge #491
  • gfx/wgpu - ✔️ done by @kvark in Add gfx/wgpu releases to 18 #468
  • imgui-rs - ✔️ done by @sanbox-irl in N18: imgui-rs #485
  • egui (1) - ✔️ done by @emilk in N18: egui #477
  • bevy_egui - ✔️ done by @mvlabat in N18: bevy_egui #487
  • chess-engine (1, 2) - ✔️ done by @ozkriff in N18: Add gamelisp, dcli, shader-playground, chess #492
  • dcli (1, 2) - ✔️ done by @ozkriff in N18: Add gamelisp, dcli, shader-playground, chess #492
  • tgjones's Shader Playground (1, 2) - ✔️ done by @ozkriff in N18: Add gamelisp, dcli, shader-playground, chess #492

Final steps:

• final review - ✔️ done by everyone
• publish - ✔️ done by @ozkriff
• post on /r/rust, /r/rust_gamedv, /r/gamedev, URLO, twitter.com/rust_gamedev - ✔️ done by @ozkriff
• add comment links - ✔️ done by @ozkriff
• add a draft of the 19 newsletter - 🚧 WIP by @ozkriff

Editors: @ozkriff @17cupsofcoffee @AngelOnFira

[17cupsofcoffee]

I'll pick up the Tetra section after work 👍

[voxelias]

Taking Dotrix 👍

[o2sh]

I'd be more than happy to take care of Teki.

[djkoloski]

I’ll write a bit about rkyv.

[Dooskington]

I'll take Antorum 💯

[icefoxen]

I'll take ggez 🧂

[NiklasEi]

I'll write something about Oicana 🎮

[logicsoup]

I'll try to write something up on Garden during the week

[tesselode]

i'll take kira

[pmathia0]

I'll write a section about my project (SeniorSKY), per Twitter DM invitation

[dabreegster]

I'll take A/B Street

[AlexEne]

I'll do dwarf.world

[sanbox-irl]

Hey i'm going to add a section for imgui-rs

[ozkriff]

The deadline for all section PRs is 2021.02.03.

It's time to deal with sections that are still free!

Taking:

• Hands-on-Rust new chapters
• Triangle from Scratch: Win and WASM
• Rust Executable's Icon in Windows

[ozkriff]

Any volunteers for the last unclaimed sections: "gamelisp", "Dimforge", "chess-engine", "dcli", and "Shader Playground"?

[ozkriff]

Taking "gamelisp", "chess-engine" and "dcli".

[ozkriff]

Ping @AngelOnFira @erlend-sh @Lowentwickler @sanbox-irl, how're your WIP sections going? :)

[sanbox-irl]

Writing it up as we speak! Well, type

[ozkriff]

Also taking "Shader Playground" myself and assigning "Dimforge" to @AngelOnFira.

Hope to have a final draft tomorrow morning and release the newsletter somewhere around 15:00 UTC.

[ozkriff]

Final PR - #494 - everyone is invited to review :)

[ozkriff]

🎉 https://rust-gamedev.github.io/posts/newsletter-018 !!

Huge thanks to all editors, contributors, and reviewers! 🦀🦀🦀