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Since you ended up here, you probably agree that Rust is potentially an ideal language for Game Development.

Its emphasis on low-level memory safe programming promises a better development process, less debugging time, and better end results.

While the ecosystem is still very young, you can find enough libraries and game engines to sink your teeth into doing some slightly experimental gamedev.

If you haven't learned Rust yet, maybe take a look at Resources first. If you are already proficient with Rust, you might want to start with Ecosystem or Community.

The main meeting places for people doing gamedev in Rust are on Discord - there's a #games-and-graphics channel on the Rust Community server, as well as a dedicated Game Development in Rust server.

Many libraries also have their own lively Gitter chats, which you can find in their descriptions.

For news and updates, check out the subreddit, the community Bluesky and Mastodon accounts, or the monthly newsletter (currently on pause).

Libraries and tools to help you build games in Rust.

Sprites, vectors, splines, hex grids and more

FBX, OBJ and more

Graphics APIs, wrappers for and backends to Vulkan and OpenGL, and more

AI libraries, steering, behaviour trees, planners, etc.

Rigging, tweening, anything related to animation.

Wrappers for FMOD, OpenAL, MIDI and similar, and higher level APIs.

Entity Component System implementations

2D and 3D engines and frameworks

Libraries to handle controllers, gamepads, keyboards, etc.

Linear algebra libraries, quaternions, color conversion and more

Tools for optimising and processing meshes.

Multiplayer, Protocols, and more

2D and 3D physics engines, collision detection libraries

Scripting languages embeddable in a Rust game

Languages and tools for writing, compiling, and using shaders.

Libraries and tools for loading and rendering fonts

Tools & other game-dev related libraries

Immediate mode UI libraries and more

VR engines and libraries

Windowing and Context Creation crates

Games that have been built by the Rust community.

Games that demand co-ordination and quick reaction-times

Games inspired by tabletop card games

Shooting games played from a first-person perspective

Games where you explore a large open world

Games that defy categorization

Games where you jump and climb your way past obstacles

Games to test your brain

Games where you roleplay as a character

Games where you have to be the fastest to win

Finished games that have been released

Games that simulate a world

Games involving tactics and decision-making

Books, guides and videos about Rust game development.

Articles and blog posts

Long-form writing about Rust and/or game development

Collections of code, resources or links

Guides to help you learn

Conference talks, presentations and guides in video form

The people that help maintain this site.

Graphics Programmer

Writes on shadercat.com about Physically Based Shading and Rendering with Rust and Unity.

Backend developer and FP enthusiast

Software Engineer

Designer & Rustacean

Working with the Amethyst Engine team.

System programmer, hobby game developer

Writes turn-based games in Rust (Zemeroth atm), runs the @rust_gamedev twitter account.

Software engineer, hobbyist game dev

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