gammarena/NOTES.md

Gammarena Notes

Engine

Piston

https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/piston

Pros

• Pure Rust
• Under active development
• Probably the most popular Rust game engine
• Widely used
• Has tutorials and examples
• Also has documentation

Cons

• May be lacking in features we require

unrust

https://github.com/edwin0cheng/unrust

Pros

• Pure Rust
• Supports webgl (probably not relevant for us but nice to know nonetheless?)
• Under active development
• Has demos

Cons

• Under active development, still being worked on
• More high level stuff (network support, model loading, levels) will probably need to be implemented
  • On the other hand, implementing these things helps the state of game development in Rust, generally.
  • We would eventually be "rewriting ioquake3 in rust"

Cafu

https://www.cafu.de/dive-in/

Pros

• Under active development
• Seems mature
• Has documentation
• Comes with map editor
  • which can port maps from other games/engines, apparently
• Comes with model editor
• Has a demo
• Supports Lua scripting

Cons

• C++
• May not be flexible enough for our use case
• C++