Computer Graphics and Game Development

Rust is quickly becoming an excellent language for computer graphics and game development. Listed below are some useful resources and existing projects.

Community

• #rust-gamedev on irc.mozilla.org
• /r/rust_gamedev

Libraries

• rust-gamedev-kit

Graphics

• gl-rs
• rust-opengles
• gfx-rs

Windowing

• glfw-rs
• sdl
• sdl2
• sfml
• rust-glut
• RustAllegro
• ncurses-rs

Audio

• openal-rs
• rust-portaudio
• rust-portmidi
• ears (simple audio API on top of OpenAL)
• rust-sndfile (library for reading and writing audio files)

Mathematics

• cgmath-rs
• color-rs
• nalgebra
• noise-rs

Collision Detection, Physics

• bullet-rs - pretty rudimentary, needs a proper C++ wrapper
• ncollide
• nphysics
• roft (softbody simulation)

Import/Export

• rust-image: Encoding and decoding images in pure Rust
• assimp-rs
• freeimage-rs
• rust-png
• rust-stb-image

Game Engines

• kiss3d
• piston

Scripting Engines

• Apollo (Lua)
• rust-lua
• r5.rs (Scheme)
• rust-mozjs (SpiderMonkey bindings)

Game Projects

• Angolmois BMS player
• Claymore
• clio
• cubeland
• Marauder
• pong-rs
• Q³
• rust-airhockey
• rust-story - Cave Story written in Rust
• rustenstein3D
• Rustyhex
• xxo