nateroids

created to teach natepiano how to code games, visualizations and simulations in bevy using rust. i started with this tutorial, added avian3d for physics as well as a few other dependencies you can find in cargo.toml. the goal is to make this fun, playable, and beautiful.

first install rust

install rust (from https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install)

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

make rust compile faster

use sccache to make follow on compiles faster as it will cache locally anything you've already built. this comes in handy if you get other projects that all need to compile with bevy or anything you commonly depend on in these projects

cargo install sccache

and to enable it globally create / edit your $HOME/.cargo/config.toml by adding this to it - make sure you're using your local path - on my system it is:

[build]
rustc-wrapper = ".cargo/bin/sccache"

clone nateroids project

git clone https://github.com/natepiano/nateroids

run it - the first time will take a while even if you have sccache installed as you have to populate the cache, n'est-ce pas? This will build a debug version and run it:

cargo run

start playing!

If you want to run it in release, you can do so by running:

cargo run --release

It might run faster on your machine. It will definitely be a smaller binary.