Bevy Foundation is now a 501(c)(3) Public Charity
In March we announced the Bevy Foundation, our new non-profit dedicated to developing Bevy and teaching people how to use it. At that time, we applied for federal 501(c)(3) public charity status, which would give us tax-exempt status in the United States and make donations tax-deductible. It introduces stricter operational constraints that help pro…
Community Reflection on Bevy's Fourth Year
@cart here (Bevy's creator and Project Lead) with another update! A month ago was Bevy's Fourth Birthday! As is tradition, I took that as a chance to reflect on the past year and outline my hopes and dreams for the future. You can read that in my Bevy's Fourth Birthday post. I also encouraged the Bevy community to write their own reflections on Bev…
I landed my dream job making a Rust game engine. Now what?
So I landed my dream job. Full-time open source building a game engine in Rust. Absolutely no meetings. What more could you ask for? With a very unconventional background (plant ecology, self-taught programming and years of disability), it's flatly astonishing to be supported by such an awesome community: surrounded and empowered by experts and beg…
Bevy's Fourth Birthday
Hey! @cart here (Bevy's creator and Project Lead). Another year of Bevy development has finally passed, meaning that Bevy is officially four years old now! As is tradition, I will take this as a chance to reflect on the past year and outline our hopes and dreams for the future. If you're curious, check out Bevy's First Birthday, Second Birthday, an…
Bevy 0.14
Thanks to 256 contributors, 993 pull requests, community reviewers, and our generous donors, we're happy to announce the Bevy 0.14 release on crates.io! For those who don't know, Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. You can check out our Quick Start Guide to try it today. It's free and open source forever! You can gr…
Bevy Foundation
It is with excitement that I unveil to the world ... The Bevy Foundation is the next step in our journey to build a world class free and open source game engine. Bevy Foundation is a non-profit organization formed in Washington State, with a pending federal 501(c)(3) tax-exemption application (more on this later).
Bevy 0.13
Thanks to 198 contributors, 672 pull requests, community reviewers, and our generous sponsors, we're happy to announce the Bevy 0.13 release on crates.io! For those who don't know, Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. You can check out our Quick Start Guide to try it today. It's free and open source forever! You can …
SME Announcements
@cart here (Bevy's creator and Project Lead) with a quick update! We have some new SMEs (Subject Matter Experts) to announce.
Bevy 0.12
Thanks to 185 contributors, 567 pull requests, community reviewers, and our generous sponsors, we're happy to announce the Bevy 0.12 release on crates.io! For those who don't know, Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. You can check out our Quick Start Guide to try it today. It's free and open source forever! You can …
Community Reflection on Bevy's Third Year
@cart here (Bevy's creator and Project Lead) with another update! A little over a month ago was Bevy's Third Birthday! As is tradition, I took that as a chance to reflect on the past year and outline my hopes and dreams for the future. You can read that in my Bevy's Third Birthday post. This year for the first time I also encouraged the Bevy commun…
Bevy's Third Birthday
@cart here (Bevy's creator and Project Lead) with an exciting announcement ... it has now been three years since the initial Bevy release! As is tradition, I will take this as a chance to reflect on the past year and outline our hopes and dreams for the future. If you're curious, check out Bevy's First Birthday and Second Birthday posts. This year,…
Bevy 0.11
Thanks to 166 contributors, 522 pull requests, community reviewers, and our generous sponsors, we're happy to announce the Bevy 0.11 release on crates.io! For those who don't know, Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. You can check out our Quick Start Guide to try it today. It's free and open source forever! You can …
Bevy + WebGPU
I'm excited to announce that Bevy's main branch now supports WebGPU rendering on the web! This means you can play with it now by checking out our repo provided you have a supported web browser (WebGPU is still in the process of rolling out). You can also explore our live WebGPU examples. The upcoming Bevy 0.11 release will have WebGPU support built…
Bevy 0.10
Thanks to 173 contributors, 689 pull requests, community reviewers, and our generous sponsors, we're happy to announce the Bevy 0.10 release on crates.io! For those who don't know, Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. You can check out our Quick Start Guide to try it today. It's free and open source forever! You can …
Scaling Bevy Development
The Bevy community has grown a lot over the past couple of years. We've had over 3,642 pull requests, 599 contributors, 357,917 downloads, and 21,200 github stars. Together we've built the most popular, most used Rust game engine on the market and the second most popular game engine on GitHub. Up until now, in the interest of maintaining a consiste…
Bevy 0.9
Thanks to 159 contributors, 430 pull requests, community reviewers, and our generous sponsors, I'm happy to announce the Bevy 0.9 release on crates.io! For those who don't know, Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. You can check out our Quick Start Guide to try it today. It's free and open source forever! You can gra…
Bevy's Second Birthday
@cart here (Bevy's creator, lead developer, and project manager) with another exciting announcement: It has now been two years since the initial Bevy release! As is (now) tradition, I will take this as a chance to reflect on the past year and outline our plans for the future. If you're curious, check out last year's birthday post. For those who don…
Bevy 0.8
Thanks to 130 contributors, 461 pull requests, community reviewers, and our generous sponsors, I'm happy to announce the Bevy 0.8 release on crates.io! For those who don't know, Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. You can check out our Quick Start Guide to try it today. It's free and open source forever! You can gra…
Bevy 0.7
Thanks to 123 contributors, 349 pull requests, and our generous sponsors, I'm happy to announce the Bevy 0.7 release on crates.io! For those who don't know, Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. You can check out The Quick Start Guide to get started. Bevy is also free and open source forever! You can grab the full sou…
Bevy 0.6
Thanks to 170 contributors, 623 pull requests, and our generous sponsors, I'm happy to announce the Bevy 0.6 release on crates.io! For those who don't know, Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. You can check out The Quick Start Guide to get started. Bevy is also free and open source forever! You can grab the full sou…
Bevy's First Birthday
@cart here (Bevy's creator, lead developer, and project manager) with some exciting news: Today is Bevy's first birthday! And what a year it has been! Now seems like as good a time as any to look back on how far we've come, reflect a bit, and start thinking about what the next year of Bevy development will look like. For those who don't know, Bevy …
Bevy 0.5
Thanks to 88 contributors, 283 pull requests, and our generous sponsors, I'm happy to announce the Bevy 0.5 release on crates.io! For those who don't know, Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. You can check out The Quick Start Guide to get started. Bevy is also free and open source forever! You can grab the full sour…
Bevy 0.4
A little over a month after releasing Bevy 0.3, and thanks to 66 contributors, 178 pull requests, and our generous sponsors, I'm happy to announce the Bevy 0.4 release on crates.io! For those who don't know, Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. You can check out The Quick Start Guide to get started. Bevy is also free…
Bevy 0.3
A little over a month after releasing Bevy 0.2, and thanks to 59 contributors, 122 pull requests, and our generous sponsors, I'm happy to announce the Bevy 0.3 release on crates.io! For those who don't know, Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. You can check out The Quick Start Guide to get started. Bevy is also free…
Bevy 0.2
A month after the initial Bevy release, and thanks to 87 contributors, 174 pull requests, and our generous sponsors, I'm happy to announce the Bevy 0.2 release on crates.io! For those who don't know, Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. You can check out The Quick Start Guide to get started. Bevy is also free and ope…
Scaling Bevy
First, I want to take a moment to highlight just how wild the last week has been. Bevy was only released a week ago and we've already hit some pretty major milestones:
Introducing Bevy 0.1
After months of work, I am ecstatic to finally announce Bevy Engine! Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine and app framework built in Rust. It is free and open-source forever!