Introduction

Welcome to the documentation for the Micro Game Engine! This is a Rust game engine build to focus on teaching game development in Rust. For this reason, there are several things that it does a bit differently than other Rust game engines.

Here are some goals of the engine:

• Implementing a game without too much complexity. Many other game engines contain a lot of structure that help you with a large project, but can often just add cognative overhead to smaller projects.
• Shipping the engine alongside your game. If you use this repo as a template for your game, then you can (and should!) extend the engine to fit your needs. In fact, there are some things that are specifially missing from the engine for you to go implement yourself, you can read this chapter to find out more about that.
• Get a prototype running in just a few hours. This engine is designed to make prototypes and toys. Ideally, you should only need to spend a few hours to get an idea up and running. After the prototype phase, you should really consider moving to a more robust engine. There happen to be a quite a few existing options!
• Some batteries included, you choose the rest. This engine is designed to be a starting point for your game, not a complete solution. It includes some basic things like a window, input, and a renderer, but it doesn't enforce how you should manage your data. There are some chapters of this book that focus on that topic, and you should check them out to learn more about the theory.

Here are some non-goals:

• It is not a general purpose game engine. This means that it isn't designed to solve every problem that many other game engines do. Some of the things it won't include:
  • Networking
  • Physics