So you want to make a game in Rust!

Graphics

From https://gist.github.com/kvark/840c8cadf755b0d822b331222b0c3095

What sort of graphics do you need?

• 2D only. All you need is…
  • Love: ggez
  • Not sure: piston
• 3D for sure. Do you like making your hands dirty?
  • Yes, give me some! What graphics APIs do you need supported?
    • GL only: glium, gl-rs
    • Vulkan only: vulkano, ash
    • Many/Other: gfx-rs
  • Sometimes: amethyst
  • Not at all. Do you fancy experimental/hot/web stuff?
    • Yes: three.rs
    • Nope: kiss3d

Windowing and input (if you want to get your hands dirty)

Okay you know how to draw stuff, but you need to get something to draw on. I want…

• Pure Rust, even if web and mobile support is a a work in progress: glutin
• Using a C library is okay: sdl2

Sound

Do you want positional sound and it’s worth the effort of distributing OpenAL with your game?

• Nah I just want to decode and play stuff in pure Rust: rodio
• Heck yeah, gimme OpenAL: alto ears
• I want to roll my own sound library with blackjack and hookers. I need…
  • Portable low-level audio: cpal
  • Codecs, all the codecs:
    • wav: hound
    • ogg vorbis: lewton
    • flac: claxon
    • mp3, via a C library: simple-mad
    • opus, via a C library: opus

Math

Oh boy, we need vectors! I want…

• Something with good 2D layout operations or built-in measurement units: euclid
• Something robust with lots of features I’ll need and not much I won’t: cgmath
• Lots of cool math in my programming, or I want to use ncollide for collision detection: nalgebra