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▦□▫ A curated list of links to miniquad/macroquad-related code & resources

Awesome Quads

A curated list of links to miniquad/macroquad-related code & resources.

Game engines

• miniquad - main crate, engines below build on top of it. Supports WASM. Therefore everything build on top of it supports WASM too.
• macroquad - simple to use library from author of miniquad.
• good-web-game - crate to easily port your ggez to WASM. You shouldn't use this crate when you creating new project.
• emerald - game engine with physics, audio, graphics, ECS.
• nonaquad - vector anti-aliased graphics renderer.

Games

On top of macroquad

• Rusty Demon Attack - game inspired by the classic atari game: demon attack.
• Zemeroth - turn-based hexagonal tactical game.
• Fish Game - online multiplayer game, created as a demonstration of Nakama, an open-source scalable game server.
• Vollmond - small non violent adventure in the style of Zelda 2.
• rymd - space shooter game prototype.
• Scream mr. Jack - ???.
• Power Kick - platformer fighting game.
• Soldank - a remake of Soldat game, made using macroquad and laminar
• The Submariner - a minimalist action game made for the LD48 Compo.

On top of miniquad

• Fermi Paradox - arcanoid-like game with moving enemies in space.
• Crate Before Attack - worms-like multiplayer game where frogs combat their friends while navigating a landscape with their sticky tongue. It is a hybrid of a realtime and turn-based game.

On top of good-web-game

• Dig Escape - simple puzzle game about digging.

Apps or visualizations

On top of macroquad

• Portal Explorer - web visualizator of mind-blowing portals.
• Rusty Aquarium - a monitoring visualization as an aquarium.
• Particles editor for your games in macroquad.
• bema - slideshow DSL.
• Rusty Slider - markdown slideshow viewer.

Docs

• Platformer book - WIP book about creating your platformer game in macroquad.
• Making an online multiplayer game in Rust with Nakama - tutorial about creating multiplayer platformer game in macroquad from scratch.

Publications

• Rust Gamedev Podcast 4: Interview with Fedor Logachev
• Video: I learnt OpenGL in 7 days using Rust by @TanTanDev.

Example usage

• With naia - a cross-platform (including Wasm!) networking engine built in Rust.
• With nakama - open-source scalable game server.
• JS interop as example for writing your own plugins.
• wasm-bindgen interop - good-web-game + wasm-bindgen example

Libraries

Integrations

• bevy_miniquad - bevy + miniquad.
• miniquad_text_rusttype - rusttype in miniquad.
• egui-miniquad - egui in miniquad.
• egui-macroquad - egui in macroquad.
• imgui-miniquad-render - imgui-rs in miniquad.

Plugins

Plugin has additional .js file, so to use it, you need to do extra work. Before deploying of your project on WASM, you could look at your dependencies using cargo tree and if you find these crates, add .js file from them.

• sapp-jsutils - to build plugins. If you want to send/receive string or arbitrary object to JS, you should look at this.
• quad-snd - to play sound.
• quad-net - to use network.
• quad-url - to change current url, search parameters, and open links.

Other

• gesture-recogrizer - library for recognizing simple touch gestures.
• sapp-console-log - log-rs compatible logging for sapp-wasm.
• quad-rand - wasm-friendly random number generator for quads.
• circle2d - little physics library with only circles, used in Crate Before Attack.