[idea] rust as a candidate for the gaming engine

[AthulMuralidhar]

• the game part comprises the core of the application
• many modern frameworks like untiy, unreal engine etc are based on cpp and are highly vendored (not open source)
• we also have the additional requirement that our game must talk smoothly with our IoT actuators so that we can have a smooth relay of movement from our game engine to our IoT devices
• my pick for all these is rust
• it's modern, complies to wasm naturally and handles memory management without garbage collection (wut? Yeah)
• the gaming field in rust is still developing and thriving
• also, there are even talks about people including rust in the Linux kernel

[arvryna]

could you explain the role of IOT actuators in the game in more detail ?

[AthulMuralidhar]

could you explain the role of IOT actuators in the game in more detail ?

Sure. So, the general design is like this:

IoT device <-> game engine

By ioT i mean real satellite drones that have mechanics similar to in-game entities.

Example: A mining scenario

• the in-game entities (spacecraft) will have for instance a head entity, with associated parts like thrusters, arms, drills etc
• the iot part (Adam) will have one or more real satellite drones in space with similar structural parts to effect movement in space

Note Adam here is a reference to the counter part of the popular MMORPG eveonline (in our project here, it's spacecraft that takes it's place). The idea is to build real world drones and equipment to bring the in-game movements ( for ex: mining an asteroid ) to real space. The software that manages this is essentially Adam and all the code within the repo

So basically three parts to the project: gyro - Adam - spacecraft. Each independent entities solving different problems, but supporting each other

[AthulMuralidhar]

closing because of scope too big for now