Exploring the rust ecosystem: Bevy game engine

As I continue exploring the rust programming language through my full stack development journey at Reboot Coding Institute . The language continues to blow my mind, its bug handling although annoying at times is simply incredible. Recently, I stumbled upon Bevy, a game engine built in rust.

Bevy's standout quality is how perfectly it embodies Rust's core principles. The engine uniquely balances developer-friendly features with performance. Following the ECS architecture that separates:

• Entities: Basic objects that exist in your game (like a player)
• Components: Data attached to entities (position, health, appearance)
• Systems: Logic that processes entities with specific components

In Bevy's ECS:

1. The Engine contains both Entities and Systems
2. Each Entity consists of various Components
3. Systems process Components according to game rules

The design makes the code cleaner and faster, systems can process a group of components together. As an example a movement system can update multiple object postions at once, hence increasing efficiency.

After diving deeper into the mechanics I decided to create a simple step by step tutorial introduction that would cover the core needed to start game development in bevy such as shapes and meshes, movement, lights, cameras and etc. What surprised me the most was how quickly I could jump on to implement some of the mechanics. There was definitely a curve as I was used to building games in unity, but I got the hang of it pretty quickly.

Overall this has shown me another fascinating application of Rust beyond its basic use cases. I will link the tutorial here as well if anyone is interested in testing the waters of game development in rust: https://bevy-guide.vercel.app/. I hope it helps others that are interested