[](https://bevyengine.org/)

[Bevy][bevy] by [@cart] is a brand new, refreshingly simple data-driven

game engine built in Rust. It aims to be:

- **Capable**: Offer a complete 2D and 3D feature set.

- **Simple**: Easy for newbies to pick up, but infinitely flexible

for power users.

- **Data Focused**: Data-oriented architecture using

the Entity Component System paradigm.

- **Modular**: Use only what you need. Replace what you don't like.

- **Fast**: App logic should run quickly, and when possible, in parallel.

- **Productive**: Changes should compile quickly ... waiting isn't fun.

These last few weeks have been big for the Bevy project:

- Bevy was announced and [open sourced on GitHub][bevy].

- Bevy's features were introduced in the ["Introducing Bevy"][bevy-intro]

blog post.

- Had a staggering number of people join the community.

This required some quick planning to handle the new size,

which they outlined in the [Scaling Bevy][bevy-scaling] blog post.

- Added an official [awesome-bevy repo][awesome-bevy]

with a huge number of community plugins, games, apps, and learning materials.

- Rapier, a new pure-rust physics engine,

released an [official Bevy plugin][bevy-rapier].

- Thanks to the generosity of individuals and companies, they quickly met

their first two funding goals on @cart's [Github Sponsors page][bevy-spnsors]:

"sustainable development" and "@cart makes minimum wage working on Bevy".

- Bevy received a glowing review from the Amethyst Engine team and they agreed

to collaborate in certain areas.

See the [Addressing the Elephant in the Room][bevy-amethyst]

thread on the Amethyst forum for more details.

Bevy users started sharing their work

on the [Bevy Discord showcase channel][bevy-discord-showcase]:


In addition to the initial Bevy GitHub release, 114 pull requests

were merged this month. Some highlights:

- A custom [async task system for Bevy][bevy-pr-async],

which significantly improves CPU usage and paves the way for future async work.

- Refactored data-driven ECS shader code to make it more maintainable, fix some bugs,

and ready to be optimized via the ECS change detection apis.

- Support for "logical or" ECS queries as a compliment to the default "logical and".

- Numerous CI improvements.

- Use shaderc to compile shaders for iOS builds.

- GLTF loading improvements.

Bevy also made good progress on its three focus areas:

- [Editor-Ready UI](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/254)

- [Physically Based Rendering (PBR)](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/179)

- [Scenes](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/255)

_Discussions:

[/r/rust](https://reddit.com/r/rust/comments/i7bcwu/introducing_bevy),

[hacker news](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24123283),

[twitter](https://twitter.com/cart_cart/status/1292903435155599361),

[amethyst forum](https://community.amethyst.rs/t/bevy-engine-addressing-the-elephant-in-the-room)_

[bevy]: https://bevyengine.org

[@cart]: https://github.com/cart

[bevy-intro]: https://bevyengine.org/news/introducing-bevy

[bevy-scaling]: https://bevyengine.org/news/scaling-bevy

[awesome-bevy]: https://github.com/bevyengine/awesome-bevy

[bevy-rapier]: https://www.dimforge.com/blog/2020/08/25/announcing-the-rapier-physics-engine/#reaching-out-to-other-communities-bevy-and-javascript

[bevy-spnsors]: https://github.com/sponsors/cart

[bevy-amethyst]: https://community.amethyst.rs/t/bevy-engine-addressing-the-elephant-in-the-room

[bevy-discord-showcase]: https://discord.com/channels/691052431525675048/692648638823923732

[bevy-pr-async]: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/384

- [Bevy's "good first issue" issues][bevy-issues].

[bevy-issues]: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/labels/good%20first%20issue