ADadamnemecek·Mar 10, 2019Submission
Hematite: Minecraft Clone Written in Rust
2 points · Open discussionPistonDevelopers
hematite
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hematite
A simple Minecraft written in Rust with the Piston game engine
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169 points · Open discussionHematite – A simple Minecraft written in Rust with the Piston game engine
4 points · Open discussionHey there HN! I am one of the authors of this library - if you have any questions, feel free to ask. Kvark, one of our key contributors recently did a talk at the Toronto meetup[0] (starts from ~53:00) discussing some of the design of the API.
Bear in mind that the API still could use more work, and could be documented better, but it is already pretty promising. We currently only support OpenGL as a back-end, but hope to support more APIs in the future. This support is currently blocked on a some language features being fully implemented.
The biggest project built using gfx-rs to date is hematite[1] - a re-implementation of Minecraft. Colin Sherratt is also doing some neat work with it in his engine, snowmew[2], which is more graphics intensive.
If you are interested in having a chat with us, feel free to hop on our gitter room[1] or #rus
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t-gamedev (irc.mozilla.org).
- [0]: https://air.mozilla.org/toronto-rust-meetup-october-2014/
- [1]: https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/hematite
- [2]: https://github.com/csherratt/snowmew/
- [3]: https://gitter.im/gfx-rs/gfx-rs
Tangentially related, but there's a Minecraft clone being written in Rust. Still very early stages, but pretty cool.
https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/hematite
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