Bevy game development tutorials and in-depth resources

(taintedcoders.com)

89 points | by GenericCanadian 2 days ago ago

20 comments

  • tyleo 17 minutes ago

    I really want to like bevy but compile times are slow and the output binaries are huge.

    I built a few games in WASM and was shocked to see many of the bevy variants larger than the Unity versions.

    There’s definitely a market for rust game engines but it seems that no one’s hit the sweet pot yet.

  • Ugvx an hour ago

    This has been on my list to kick off for a while. From previous times I looked at it, these tutorials are the only text based tutorials that are really kept up to date. Love it

  • michaelteter 5 hours ago

    Those of us unfamiliar with Bevy can deduce what it might be, but it would be really nice if your introduction included at least a link titled "Bevy game engine" which links to bevy.org.

    Then your unfamiliar readers can first hop to bevy.org to see what it's all about.

  • vivzkestrel 6 hours ago

    - since we are on the topic, i wanted to ask people here

    - could someone kindly share some resources on c++ game development

    - here is what i have

    - https://gamedev.net/tutorials/

    - https://shader-learning.com/

    - https://learnopengl.com/

    - https://shaderacademy.com/

    - https://www.gabrielgambetta.com/client-server-game-architect...

    - https://github.com/0xFA11/MultiplayerNetworkingResources

    - just a headsup, i am looking for 3D game development without unreal, unity , godot or any of those engines

  • nextaccountic 8 hours ago

    > These guides are up to date with Bevy version 0.18

    This is huge, thanks. Unfortunately many Bevy resources became stale (the Bevy cookbook was even abandoned, there was little interest in keeping it up to date and so there were many sections for, say, Bevy 0.12)

  • roflcopter69 5 hours ago

    There's also ongoing work on the (for now hidden) Bevy Book https://bevy.org/learn/book/intro/

    Already seems like a great resource to me but it's still WIP.

    • Based-A 3 hours ago

      As someone who is actively working on the Bevy Book, the next engine release should include the first public release of the Bevy Book. And once it's out, then we'll be doing our best to keep it updated and expand it alongside the Bevy engine.

      • dannersy an hour ago

        This is great news and thank you for work.

  • reitzensteinm 6 hours ago

    This site is excellent. I emailed the author to thank them after reading it cover to cover, and they replied and asked if anything was unclear or if there was anything I wanted to see explored more.

    Quite the dedication to a free resource!

  • jippo 9 hours ago

    Thank you. Not many free and in-depth resource for Bevy engine. Mostly are paid ones. I am surprised that you switch from Ruby to Rust. Seems a different beast to me.

    • jaggederest 6 hours ago

      As a long time ruby enjoyer and now also rust enjoyer, the core syntax and systems of rust are very rubyesque in a lot of ways, you can tell that some of the core contributors liked the language.

      • nextaccountic 5 hours ago

        yeah ruby API ideas and the _why poignant guide specifically, they were very influential in programming in general. a number of early rust devs came from ruby as well. all original authors of cargo worked on ruby's bundler earlier. etc

      • IshKebab 2 hours ago

        Really? What do you think comes from Ruby? Rust mostly seems to be inspired by ML and C++.

        Actually I just checked the "official" list and they only list the closure syntax which seems pretty minor:

        https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/influences.html

        • leafario2 an hour ago

          Expression orientation

          • IshKebab 17 minutes ago

            That's from functional programming.

    • nextaccountic 5 hours ago

      > Mostly are paid ones.

      can someone link to some of those paid resources?

  • SilentM68 4 hours ago

    Thank you :)