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Crates

  • aseprite

    A crate to load files from the aseprite sprite editor.

    • Latest version:
      0.1.3
    • Downloads:
      22,730
    • Recent downloads:
      1,319
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      31
    • Last activity:
      2024-04-06
  • assets_manager

    Conveniently load, cache, and reload external resources

    • Latest version:
      0.12.5
    • Downloads:
      132,035
    • Recent downloads:
      13,673
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      156
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-19
  • basis-universal

    Bindings for the basis-universal Supercompressed GPU Texture Codec by Binomial

    • Latest version:
      0.3.1
    • Downloads:
      212,880
    • Recent downloads:
      26,092
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      36
    • Last activity:
      2024-04-28
  • bytemuck

    A crate for mucking around with piles of bytes.

    • Latest version:
      1.22.0
    • Downloads:
      102,023,131
    • Recent downloads:
      21,475,539
    • License:
      Zlib OR Apache-2.0 OR MIT
    • Stars:
      834
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-08
  • console_engine

    A simple terminal framework to draw things and manage user input

    • Latest version:
      2.6.1
    • Downloads:
      63,605
    • Recent downloads:
      9,117
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      230
    • Last activity:
      2023-12-10
  • const-tweaker

    Tweak constant variables live from a web GUI

    • Latest version:
      0.3.1
    • Downloads:
      17,916
    • Recent downloads:
      2,333
    • License:
      AGPL-3.0-or-later
    • Stars:
      75
    • Last activity:
      2023-12-15
  • density-mesh-core

    Core module for density mesh generator

    • Latest version:
      1.5.0
    • Downloads:
      10,928
    • Recent downloads:
      1,230
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      81
    • Last activity:
      2023-09-15
  • density-mesh-image

    Image module for density mesh generator

    • Latest version:
      1.5.0
    • Downloads:
      10,351
    • Recent downloads:
      1,173
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      81
    • Last activity:
      2023-09-15
  • encase

    Provides a mechanism to lay out data into GPU buffers ensuring WGSL's memory layout requirements are met

    • Latest version:
      0.10.0
    • Downloads:
      2,394,456
    • Recent downloads:
      318,286
    • License:
      MIT-0
    • Stars:
      168
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-17
  • hex2d

    Helper library for working with 2d hex-grid maps

    • Latest version:
      1.1.0
    • Downloads:
      51,619
    • Recent downloads:
      4,514
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      65
    • Last activity:
      2021-08-16
  • hexasphere

    A library to evenly tile hexagons on a sphere.

    • Latest version:
      15.1.0
    • Downloads:
      3,147,002
    • Recent downloads:
      429,944
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      65
    • Last activity:
      2025-03-10
  • dust3d

    Dust3D is a cross-platform 3D modeling software that makes it easy to create low poly 3D models for video games, 3D printing, and more.

  • inline_tweak

    Tweak values directly from the source code

    • Latest version:
      1.2.2
    • Downloads:
      75,745
    • Recent downloads:
      8,371
    • License:
      CC0-1.0
    • Stars:
      176
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-09
  • keeshond_datapack

    A simple framework for loading and caching game assets

    • Latest version:
      0.13.0
    • Downloads:
      17,006
    • Recent downloads:
      2,343
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      5
    • Last activity:
      2022-05-29
  • keyframe

    A simple library for animation in Rust

    • Latest version:
      1.1.1
    • Downloads:
      415,535
    • Recent downloads:
      36,966
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      133
    • Last activity:
      2022-07-11
  • modio

    Rust interface for integrating https://mod.io - a modding API for game developers

    • Latest version:
      0.12.1
    • Downloads:
      31,893
    • Recent downloads:
      5,395
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      17
    • Last activity:
      2025-03-09
  • modulator

    A trait for abstracted, decoupled modulation sources

    • Latest version:
      0.4.0
    • Downloads:
      6,832
    • Recent downloads:
      796
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      199
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-17
  • noise

    Procedural noise generation library.

    • Latest version:
      0.9.0
    • Downloads:
      1,227,560
    • Recent downloads:
      178,124
    • License:
      Apache-2.0/MIT
    • Stars:
      958
    • Last activity:
      2025-02-14
  • ogmo3

    A Rust crate for reading and writing Ogmo Editor 3 projects and levels

    • Latest version:
      0.1.1
    • Downloads:
      7,095
    • Recent downloads:
      1,124
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      18
    • Last activity:
      2021-08-02
  • profiling

    This crate provides a very thin abstraction over other profiler crates.

    • Latest version:
      1.0.16
    • Downloads:
      11,704,197
    • Recent downloads:
      2,695,007
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      350
    • Last activity:
      2024-10-14
  • pyxel

    Pyxel is a library for loading [PyxelEdit](https://pyxeledit.com) documents in Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.2.2
    • Downloads:
      6,542
    • Recent downloads:
      1,018
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      4
    • Last activity:
      2021-01-31
  • rectangle-pack

    A general purpose, deterministic bin packer designed to conform to any two or three dimensional use case.

    • Latest version:
      0.4.2
    • Downloads:
      2,300,394
    • Recent downloads:
      220,312
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      76
    • Last activity:
      2024-08-28
  • sharecart1000

    For use with the Sharecart1000 system.

    • Latest version:
      1.0.1
    • Downloads:
      2,449
    • Recent downloads:
      405
    • License:
      Zlib OR Apache-2.0 OR MIT
    • Stars:
      3
    • Last activity:
      2021-03-06
  • softbuffer

    Cross-platform software buffer

    • Latest version:
      0.4.6
    • Downloads:
      2,176,289
    • Recent downloads:
      611,928
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      379
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-20
  • space_editor

    Prefab editor for bevy game engine. Make levels/object templates with intuitive UI

    • Latest version:
      0.3.1
    • Downloads:
      2,769
    • Recent downloads:
      432
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      440
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-03
  • sprite

    Procedurally generate pixel sprites and save them in different formats

    • Latest version:
      0.3.0
    • Downloads:
      15,520
    • Recent downloads:
      2,191
    • License:
      GPL-3.0
    • Stars:
      76
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-01
  • superluminal-perf

    Superluminal Performance API for adding user events to profiler captures

    • Latest version:
      0.3.0
    • Downloads:
      308,180
    • Recent downloads:
      3,462
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      99
    • Last activity:
      2023-10-26
  • tiled

    A rust crate for loading maps created by the Tiled editor

    • Latest version:
      0.14.0
    • Downloads:
      128,366
    • Recent downloads:
      15,093
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      279
    • Last activity:
      2025-02-22
  • tri-mesh

    A triangle mesh data structure including basic operations.

    • Latest version:
      0.6.1
    • Downloads:
      13,640
    • Recent downloads:
      1,891
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      79
    • Last activity:
      2024-09-02
  • game-loop

    A Rust crate that implements a frame-rate-independent game loop.

    • Stars:
      140
    • Last activity:
      2025-02-10
  • vach

    A simple modular archiving format, written in pure Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.7.1
    • Downloads:
      27,760
    • Recent downloads:
      5,368
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      52
    • Last activity:
      2025-02-15
  • voronator

    Implements the Voronoi diagram construction as a dual of the Delaunay triangulation for a set of points and the construction of a centroidal tesselation of a Delaunay triangulation.

    • Latest version:
      0.2.1
    • Downloads:
      86,462
    • Recent downloads:
      13,675
    • License:
      non-standard
    • Stars:
      58
    • Last activity:
      2025-03-07
  • wrapping_coords2d

    Translate between 1D indices and 2D coordinates with wrapping

    • Latest version:
      0.1.10
    • Downloads:
      12,397
    • Recent downloads:
      1,809
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      2
    • Last activity:
      2022-05-07

Archived

These crates are no longer maintained, but may still be of interest.
  • beehive

    Utilities and collections for 3D hexagonal maps

    • Latest version:
      0.1.1
    • Downloads:
      2,938
    • Recent downloads:
      438
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
  • building-blocks

    Data types, collections, and algorithms for working with maps on 2D and 3D integer lattices. Commonly known as voxel data.

    • Latest version:
      0.7.1
    • Downloads:
      16,522
    • Recent downloads:
      2,364
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      373
    • Last activity:
      2022-06-23
  • distill

    Asset framework for game engines & editor suites.

    • Latest version:
      0.0.3
    • Downloads:
      27,862
    • Recent downloads:
      1,255
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      367
    • Last activity:
      2021-12-13
  • ezing

    Easing functions

    • Latest version:
      0.2.1
    • Downloads:
      60,080
    • Recent downloads:
      6,094
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      52
    • Last activity:
      2018-11-01
  • tcod

    The Rust bindings for the Doryen library (a.k.a. libtcod).

    • Latest version:
      0.15.0
    • Downloads:
      140,866
    • Recent downloads:
      12,329
    • License:
      WTFPL
    • Stars:
      227
    • Last activity:
      2021-01-30
  • texture-synthesis

    Multiresolution Stochastic Texture Synthesis, a non-parametric example-based algorithm for image generation

    • Latest version:
      0.8.2
    • Downloads:
      63,841
    • Recent downloads:
      2,754
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      1,774
    • Last activity:
      2023-01-22
  • weasel

    A customizable battle system for turn-based games.

    • Latest version:
      0.11.0
    • Downloads:
      14,524
    • Recent downloads:
      2,253
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      63
    • Last activity:
      2020-11-03

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