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Hands-on Rust 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

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Rust is an exciting new programming language combining the power of C with memory safety, fearless concurrency, and productivity boosters - and what better way to learn than by making games. Each chapter in this book presents hands-on, practical projects ranging from "Hello, World" to building a full dungeon crawler game. With this book, you'll learn game development skills applicable to other engines, including Unity and Unreal.

Rust is an exciting programming language combining the power of C with memory safety, fearless concurrency, and productivity boosters. With Rust, you have a shiny new playground where your game ideas can flourish.

Each chapter in this book presents hands-on, practical projects that take you on a journey from "Hello, World" to building a full dungeon crawler game. Start by setting up Rust and getting comfortable with your development environment. Learn the language basics with practical examples as you make your own version of Flappy Bird. Discover what it takes to randomly generate dungeons and populate them with monsters as you build a complete dungeon crawl game. Run game systems concurrently for high-performance and fast game-play, while retaining the ability to debug your program. Unleash your creativity with magical items, tougher monsters, and intricate dungeon design. Add layered graphics and polish your game with style.

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A video card and drivers capable of running OpenGL 3.2.

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Rust is an exciting programming language that combines the power of C with memory safety, fearless concurrency, and productivity boosters. It offers close-to-the-metal power and performance, while also providing a safety net to avoid many of the more common bugs found in low-level languages. Because of its features, Rust is a very competitive systems and game development language and is currently enjoying rapid growth amongst industry giants, including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and many game development houses.

A great way to learn and study Rust is through game development. Don’t be discouraged by the scale and polish of AAA titles. Small indie games are fun, and hobby game development can kickstart careers in professional game dev or unrelated development fields. Every successful game developer started small, gradually gaining skills until they could work on the game of their dreams.

In this book, you’ll learn Rust by walking through game development examples. You’ll gain knowledge and confidence in both Rust and game development as you work through a series of practical examples, building increasingly complicated games. The text emphasizes a pragmatic “learn by doing” approach.

Theory sections are short and are followed by concrete examples for you to try. By the end of the book, you’ll have mastered the basics of the Rust language and be well-equipped for tackling more complicated game development problems.

Who Should Read This Book

This book assumes that you have some prior programming experience. It gently introduces you to Rust and game development concepts. If you’ve written anything more complicated than a “Hello, World” program in another programming language, you should feel comfortable working through this book’s examples.

This book is ideal for anyone who wants to give Rust a try—it does not assume that you know the Rust language. It’s also well suited for Rust developers who want to try their hand at game development. Alongside an introductory programming tutorial, it could also be helpful to new developers.

What’s Not in This Book

This book emphasizes learning theory by following practical examples and explaining the theory behind the technique you learned. This book isn’t an in-depth guide to every facet of the Rust language; instead, this book guides you to sources for this information when it introduces a concept.

Likely, this book doesn’t describe the game idea you’ve always wanted to make. That’s OK. This book teaches concepts that are useful whether you want to make the next great online board game or a shooter. These concepts are readily transferable to other engines, including Unity, Godot, Unreal, and Amethyst. By the end of the book, you’ll be much better equipped to start work on the game you’ve always wanted to make.

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Herbert Wolverson has worked as a programmer and an indie game developer since the late 1990s. He's taught programming and IT skills at a variety of levels, contributes to multiple Open Source projects, and is active in the game development scene.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pragmatic Bookshelf; 1st edition (June 30, 2021)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 30, 2021
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 17555 KB
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Samuel Gonzalez

If you want to learn Rust, this is where to start

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 19, 2023

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Hello everyone, I just want to thank the author of this book. I’ve used so many beginner resources to learn rust and none of them have been as easy and fun yet technical that you can understand and retain these difficult concepts easily. It takes a seasoned pro to really create such an awesome book. I spend an hour reading and another hour writing the code and off branching creating my own projects through each step. I’m about to start on the flappy bird game project but I’ve got a really solid foundation now. I’ve been trying to learn for about a year and 6 months and made tons of progress in the first 2 weeks of buying this book. Please buy and I’m really hoping you write another book because this is phenomenal!

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Mr Alexander Titarenko

Get this book if u want to get into developing indie games with rust.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 23, 2023

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Amazing book, it doesn’t so much teach rust as it teaches combination of game designs and implementing them in rust.
Wish the book was longer though

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Mark Schindler

Great, but not for complete beginners.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 11, 2022

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While most of the first few chapters are somewhat east to follow, I've ran into a few errors already with naming on some pages not matching the next example. Additionally as a complete Noob to coding, it's hard to really figure out where some of the lines of code go. Using other supplemental sites and extensions. Using IntelliJ IDEA. But overall mostly able to work through it, and troubleshooting allows me to learn even more.

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Brett B Smith

A good overview of game design, especially rogue like games, with a small helping of rust.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 17, 2022

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This is a great intro to game design as a whole. If you are wanting to become a rust jedi, look elsewhere. The author does a great job of holding your hand for the first few chapters. Rust can be a bit odd if you haven’t worked in systems programming before. Once you understand the framework of how rust works, the rest of the book is a game design gem. Roguelike games often get overlooked for the more modern, high end graphics sensory overload titles of today. You will learn a good intro to ECS and procedural generation. All in all, I highly recommend this title for those seeking an alternative to Unity, Godot, and Unreal.

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John Ingle

Fantastic introduction to Rust and making games with ECS architectures!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 19, 2021

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I absolutely loved this book. All the code works and the presentation of concepts proceeds very logically. At the end you end up with a small roguelike dungeon crawler built on the author's own convenience rendering library (bracket-lib) and a very respectable open source Entity Component System (ECS) libary (legion from Amethyst). The journey of getting there also prepares you well for further exploration in defining data-driven content.

I don't know if Mr. Wolverson is considering it, but I would love to see a sequel title that delves deeper into the topic of procedurally generated content and roguelike game development using Rust and a fuller exploration of a more general engine such as Bevy or Amethyst.

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Ryan Orlando

Easy to digest brain candy that will let you build worlds.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 28, 2021

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Herbert has done a great job of using video-games to convey Rust practices.

I do not have a degree in CS.

I come from a JavaScript back ground.

This book has been easy to digest. Does a great job at preparing you for further chapters as you read. It has been a great way to spend the time learning a language that has only made my work skill-set more robust.

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Levi Conley

More For Learning 2D Game Dev

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 28, 2021

If you buy this book to learn Rust and aren't very interested in game development, you'll probably be disappointed. However, if your primary interest is game dev and how to do it in Rust, coming from a novice's perspective (though not a complete beginner), this book is almost PERFECT. This book really shines in showing how an entity-component-system works in practice. Before reading this (and typing/compiling every line of code in it), I really struggled with taking games to the next level of complexity beyond just moving sprites around and collision detection. Now I know at least one good way it is done, which can apply to many types of games and even games written in languages other than Rust.

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Charles K

Freaking smart book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 10, 2022

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This is fantastic. The book teaches most of Rust through the gradual building of a project. Covers most everything that I've seen individual sections on in other books, but does what I crave -- tying it all together to mean something. One of my best professors used the gradual building of a game in Java over a semester to introduce principles and give them meaning. It's an extremely good approach, and this is the type of content I was looking for in learning Rust, one of MANY languages I've familiarized myself with. (NOTE -- you don't learn a programming language, you how to program. A language is a tool. Rust is a damn good tool though!)

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Excellent Book for learning Rust and 2D Game Development

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 30, 2021

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I received this today and have already read and coded part 1.

The book is clear, concise and so far easy to follow without any errors in the code or content.

The authors style of writing keeps you engaged and he explains everything clearly.

I have read many Rust books and this one sits along side Rust in Action as my go to books for learning Rust.

Highly recommend both.

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Ottimo complemento ad un buon manuale di Rust

Reviewed in Italy 🇮🇹 on November 17, 2021

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Il libro è focalizzato più sulla logica dei progetti che sul linguaggio in se, quindi è perfetto come complemento ad un buon manuale di Rust.

È scritto in modo molto scorrevole e affronta con gradualità lo sviluppo dei progetti senza essere mai noioso o inutilmente prolisso.

L'autore conosce bene la materia di cui parla e riesce a trasmettere i concetti chiave in modo semplice e razionale. Non mancano i riferimenti ad argomenti più avanzati per chi volesse approfondirli autonomamente.

Non è necessaria alcuna conoscenza preliminare di Rust (ma un minimo background di programmazione può rendere la lettura più semplice) ma se si è alla ricerca un libro per imparare il linguaggio da 0 probabilmente questa non è la lettura più adatta.

Lo consiglio a chi è interessato al tema specifico dello sviluppo di giochi o a chiunque stia studiando Rust e voglia imparare ad organizzare i propri progetti.

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Daniel Alberto Bruno Reyna

Excelente libro!!!

Reviewed in Mexico 🇲🇽 on September 9, 2022

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El libro llegó en buen estado, el contenido sin lugar a dudas recomendado, si es tu primera vez con rust puede que algunos conceptos sean confusos al principio, los ejercicios se van desarrollando de manera sublime. Como introducción a programación de videojuegos es bueno.

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