HackMD
Newsletter 40: November 2022
tags: newsletter
Editors: @ozkriff, @AngelOnFira, and @17cupsofcoffee
Another month has gone by, so it's time to put together the Rust Gamedev newsletter with TODO's news!
Current Schedule
The soft deadline for all section PRs is 4 Dec.
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
sourcebranch (example: #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]
_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]
_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!
Announcements
- Rust Gamedev meetup - ✔️ done by @ozkriff
Game Updates
- Veloren (1) - ✔️ done by @AngelOnFira
- Yomi Hustle (1) - 🆓 free (@uzkbwza?)
- Tantan’s Voxel Project (1, 2) - 🆓 free (@TanTanDev?)
- Combine And Conquer (1, 2, 3, 4) - 🆓 free (@I3ck?)
- Crispy's Automation RL (1) - 🆓 free (@0crispy?)
- Idu (1, 2) - 🆓 free (@johann2?)
- gssa-rs (1, 2, 3) - 🆓 free (@devildahu?)
- Scummstreets (1, 2) - ✔️ done by @dooskington
- 8bit-duels (1, 2) - ✔️ done by @ThousandthStar
- Space Frontiers (1, 2) - ✔️ done by @starwolfy
- Timely Defuse (1) - ✔️ done by @Enet4
- Jumpy - ✔️ done by @zicklag
- Rusty Vangers - ✔️ done by @kvark
- Digital Extinction - ✔️ done by @Indy2222
- CyberGate - ✔️ done by @cybersoulK
- spaceviata - ✔️ done by mockersf
Learning Material Updates
- Render Pipelines in wgpu (1, 2) - ✔️ done by @ozkriff
- Embark: Evaluating health&quality of crates (1, 2) - ✔️ done by @ozkriff
- bevy+rapier (1) - ✔️ done by @ozkriff
Engine Updates
- Bevy v0.9 (1, 2, 3) - ✔️ done by @JonahPlusPlus
- fyrox (1, 2, 3) - ✔️ done by @mrDIMAS
- godot-rust (1) - ✔️ done by @Bromeon
- Alkahest (1, 2, 3) - 🆓 free (@AnthonyUtt?)
- pixel (1) - ✔️ done by @maix0
- defold-rs (1) - ✔️ done by @ozkriff
- Eldiron (1, 2) - 🆓 free (@markusmoenig?)
Tooling Updates
- Blackjack (1, 2) - 🆓 free (@setzer22?)
- EuriHerasme's Terrain Gen (1) - 🆓 free (@eurigilberto?)
- boytacean (1, 2) - ✔️ done by @joamag
- graphite - ✔️ done by @Keavon
Library Updates
- Iced (1) - ✔️ done by @ozkriff
- dynec (1) - 🆓 free (@SOF3?)
- kopi (1) - 🆓 free (@hasenbanck?)
- guiedit (1) - 🆓 free (@aleokdev?)
- Sparsey (1) - ✔️ done by @LechintanTudor
- Bevy Tweening (1) - 🆓 free (@djeedai?)
- dungeon-generator (1, 2) - 🆓 free (@MoutonSanglant?)
- seldom_pixel (1, 2) - ✔️ done by @Seldom-SE
- bevy_quickmenu (1, 2) - ✔️ done by @terhechte
- Notan (1) - ✔️ done by @Nazariglez
- Taffy (1) - 🆓 free (@alice-i-cecile?)
- bevy-hikari (1) - ✔️ done by @cryscan
- kayak_ui (1) - ✔️ done by @ozkriff
- leafwing_input_playback (1) - 🆓 free (@alice-i-cecile?)
- bevy-sequential-actions (1) - ✔️ done by @hikikones
- bevy_atmosphere (1) - ✔️ done by @JonahPlusPlus
- bevy-vfx-bag (1) - ✔️ done by @torsteingrindvik
Other News
- Bullet points of any interesting news that doesn't have its own section - ✔️ done by @ozkriff
Discussions
Jobs
- Dims (1) - ✔️ done by @philpax
Publishing Steps
- Final review - by everyone
- Publish - by @ozkriff
- Post on /r/rust, /r/rust_gamedev, /r/gamedev, URLO, twitter.com/rust_gamedev - by @ozkriff
- Pin thread on Twitter - by @ozkriff
- Add comment links - by @ozkriff
- Add a draft of next month's newsletter - ✔️ done by @ozkriff
