Advanced Hands-on Rust

Table of Contents

• Getting Started
  • Set Up Rust and the Bevy Engine
    • Checking Your Rust Version
    • Setting Up a Workspace
    • Creating Your First Workspace
    • Bootstrapping Bevy
    • Reviewing the Entity Component System
    • Saying Hello to Bevy
    • Displaying a Graphic with Bevy
    • Moving Entities with Bevy
    • Wrapping Up
• Your First Library
  • Create and Test Your First Library
    • Hello, Library World
    • Generating Random Numbers as a Library Service
    • Unit Testing Your Random Number Generator
    • Integration Testing Your Random Number Generator
    • Creating Generically Typed Random Numbers
    • Using Inclusive Ranges
    • Working with Generic Functions
    • Wrapping Up
  • Optimize and Benchmark Your Library
    • Measuring Random Number Generator Performance
    • Changing Random Algorithm
    • Testing Your Feature Flags
    • Optimizing for Bevy
    • Scheduling and Mutability
    • Wrapping Up
  • Document Your Library
    • Documenting Rust Code
    • Working with Block-Level Documentation
    • Documenting Functions
    • Including Code Examples
    • Wrapping Up
• Flappy Dragon Flies Again
  • Build Reusable Game State Management
    • Setting Up Flappy Dragon
    • Understanding Bevy and Game States
    • Modeling Game State
    • Building a State Management Plugin
    • Adding Game Menus
    • Tidying Unwieldy Syntax with Macros
    • Updating Pig to Use Menus
    • Wrapping Up
  • Manage Your Game Assets
    • Understanding Bevy Assets
    • Building an Asset Manager
    • Creating a Loading Screen
    • Adding Sound to Flappy Dragon
    • Wrapping Up
  • Teach Your Dragon to Fly
    • Adding Frame-Based Animation
    • Simulating Movement with Parallax Layers
    • Creating Consistent Movement with Physics
    • Wrapping Up
  • Build Obstacles and Collision Detection
    • Building a Collision-Detection Test Bed
    • Removing Square Roots from Distance Calculations
    • Improving Collision Detection with Bounding Boxes
    • Reducing Collision Checks with Spatial Partitioning
    • Upgrading Quad-Tree to a Library Service
    • Wrapping Up
  • Smooth Physics with Tweening
    • Smoothly Integrating Physics Steps
    • Rotating Your Dragon
    • Predicting Imminent Collisions
    • Wrapping Up
• Mars Base One
  • Welcome to Mars Base One
    • Building a Mars Base One Outline
    • Creating a Starting Point
    • Adding a Ship
    • Moving the Ship
    • Adding Game Over Conditions
    • Wrapping Up
  • Build a Mining Outpost on Mars
    • Zooming In
    • Making the Camera Follow the Player
    • Building a Martian Mining Outpost
    • Carving a Linear Corridor Between Rooms
    • Bouncing Off Walls
    • Adding a Background Thread for World Building
    • Wrapping Up
  • Optimize Mars Base One
    • Displaying the Frame Rate
    • Making a Mesh
    • Optimizing Collision Detection
    • Adding Visual Embellishments
    • Wrapping Up
  • Add Miners and Energy Shields
    • Adding Some Graphics
    • Placing Miners, Batteries, and Fuel Tanks
    • Adding Shields and Fuel
    • Adding Particle Bursts
    • A Generic System for Collecting Things
    • Depleting Shields
    • Running Out of Fuel
    • Winning the Game
    • Finalizing the Systems
    • Wrapping Up
  • Build a High Score Server
    • Calculating Scores
    • Passing the Score to the Game Over Phase
    • Serializing Scores
    • Submitting Scores with Ureq
    • Building a Server
    • Displaying Scores
    • Displaying High Scores in the Game
    • Wrapping Up
• Library Curation
  • Share Your Library
    • Is Your Library Worth Sharing?
    • Is Your Library Ready to Share?
    • Choosing the Right License
    • Keeping Your Secrets
    • Collaborating with Others
    • Preparing Your Library for Sharing
    • Wrapping Up