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title = "This Month in Rust GameDev #22 - May 2021"
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Welcome to the 22nd issue of the Rust GameDev Workgroup's
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- [Game Updates](#game-updates)
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- [Learning Material Updates](#learning-material-updates)
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- [Engine Updates](#engine-updates)
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- [Library & Tooling Updates](#library-tooling-updates)
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- [Popular Workgroup Issues in Github](#popular-workgroup-issues-in-github)
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- [Meeting Minutes](#meeting-minutes)
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- [Tooling Updates](#tooling-updates)
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- [Library Updates](#library-updates)
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- [Requests for Contribution](#requests-for-contribution)
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- [Jobs](#jobs)
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- [Bonus](#bonus)
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May saw the release of Alpha 5.4, including interface improvements,
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balance changes, new units, new maps and netcode improvements.
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balance changes, new units, new maps, and netcode improvements.
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An [alpha access request form](https://forms.gle/w22ohPGNk58fo9bv6) is available,
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if you want to try it out.
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Steam, Itch, Nintendo Switch, etc. and guarantee it's viable.
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Steam, Itch, Nintendo Switch, and guarantee its viability.
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This resulted in the birth of [Harvest Hero Origins], a small wave
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defense arcade game with local co-op! Join the [Gemdrop Games Discord]
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![Animation showing Bibi, the main protagonist of Outer Wonders,
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starting from the top entrance of a puzzle, rolling from obstacle
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[Outer Wonders] is a colorful, pixel art, puzzle-based adventure game
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[Theta Wave] is an open-source space shooter game by developers [@micah_tigley] and
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are rolled, spawned, and how their effects are applied to the game. The Loot update
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are rolled, spawned, and how their effects are applied to the game. The Loot Update
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also added an attraction system that allows for entities to repel or attract
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[Theta Wave]: https://github.com/amethyst/theta-wave
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For more details, see the [changelog][tetra-changelog].
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[Rustcraft][rustcraft] by @dskart
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[rg3d_twitter]: https://twitter.com/DmitryNStepanov
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### [Nestadia][nestadia]
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![Zelda running on Nestadia](nestadia.png)
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[Nestadia][nestadia] by @zer0x64, @junior-n30 and @CBenoit is a
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server-based NES emulator.
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Nestadia was written as a reverse engineering and memory exploitation challenge
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for NorthSec CTF 2021, a cybersecurity competition. Contestants were required to
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reverse-engineer the emulator and ultimately write a Tool Assisted Speedrun to
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run arbitrary code inside a provided ROM.
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references to the competition. The developers intend on fixing more bugs and
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adding more features in the near future.
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no_std core which means that the emulator can be built and ran pretty much
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anywhere without much work.
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a libretro core, and using wgpu instead of sdl for the native GUI and debugger.
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[nestadia]: https://github.com/zer0x64/nestadia
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_Discussion: [r/rust_gamedev](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust_gamedev/comments/nhdwky/i_used_rust_to_make_an_mmo_in_48_hours_for)_
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### [Graphite][graphite-repo]
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![Piet Mondrian's artwork replicated in Graphite using the new color picker](graphite-piet.png)
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_Piet Mondrian's artwork replicated in Graphite using the new color picker_
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[Try it right now in your browser.][graphite-live-demo] Graphite is making
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[graphite-repo]: https://github.com/GraphiteEditor/Graphite
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[graphite-discord]: https://github.com/GraphiteEditor/Graphite/blob/master/README.md#discord
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[abstreet-issues]: https://github.com/a-b-street/abstreet/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22
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[mun-issues]: https://github.com/mun-lang/mun/labels/good%20first%20issue
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