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Quake 1-3 uses a single array of structs, with sometimes unused properties. Is your game more complex than quake 3?
The “ECS” upgrade to that is having an array for each component type but just letting there be gaps:
transform[eid].position += …
physics[eid].velocity = …PS: I love the art style of the game.
There are so many QoL things which would make Rust better for gamedev without revamping the language. Just a mode to automatically coerce between numeric types would make Rust so much more ergonomic for gamedev. But that's a really hard sell (and might be harder to implement than I imagine.)
Rust is not good for video game gameplay logic. The ownership model of Rust can not represent the vast majority of allocations. I love Rust. It’s not for shipping video games. No Tiny Glade doesn’t count. Edit: don’t know why you’re downvoting. I love Rust. I use it at my job and look for ways to use it more. I’ve also shipped a lot of games. And if you look at Steam there are simply zero Rust made games in the top 2…
I wonder why Godot wasn't picked. Did I miss the points in the article?
But they also could have combined Rust parts and C# parts if they needed to keep some of what they had.
The more projects I do, the more time I find that I dedicate to just planning things up front. Sometimes it's fun to just open a game engine and start playing with it (I too have an unfair bias in this area, but towards Godot [https://godotengine.org/]), but if I ever want to build something to release, I start with a spreadsheet.
The article title is half-true. It wasn't so much they migrated away from Rust, but that they migrated away from Bevy, which is an alpha quality game engine. I wouldn't have read the article if it'd been labeled that, so kudos to the blog writer, I guess.
More surprising part for me is not migrating from Rust/Bevy, but migrating _to_ C#/Unity. Although points mentioned in the post are quite valid.
The article title is half-true. It wasn't so much they migrated away from Rust, but that they migrated away from Bevy, which is an alpha quality game engine. I wouldn't have read the article if it'd been labeled that, so kudos to the blog writer, I guess.
While the language itself is great and stable, the ecosystem is not, and reverting to more conservative options is often the most reasonable choice, especially for long-term projects.
Rust is not good for video game gameplay logic. The ownership model of Rust can not represent the vast majority of allocations. I love Rust. It’s not for shipping video games. No Tiny Glade doesn’t count. Edit: don’t know why you’re downvoting. I love Rust. I use it at my job and look for ways to use it more. I’ve also shipped a lot of games. And if you look at Steam there are simply zero Rust made games in the top 2…
What allocations can you not do in Rust?