Add macroquad to Game Engines

didibear commented 10 months ago

This adds macroquad (crate) to the list of game engines. Here are some resources:

Macroquad website with examples
Awesome Quads: Curated list of links to miniquad/macroquad-related code & resources

nicoburns commented 10 months ago

Do you have any insight as how to macroquad differs to ggez, and when/why one might prefer to use one or the other? I'd prefer not to just list a bunch of options as the whole purpose of this site is to provide guidance as to which libraries people ought to use.

didibear commented 10 months ago

Do you have any insight as how to macroquad differs to ggez, and when/why one might prefer to use one or the other? I'd prefer not to just list a bunch of options as the whole purpose of this site is to provide guidance as to which libraries people ought to use.

Basically, I would say they are equivalent:

Generated comparison here
Almost the same amount of monthly downloads here:
- https://lib.rs/crates/macroquad/rev
- https://lib.rs/crates/ggez/rev
Reddit post recommending both:
macroquad officially supports most platforms here while ggez currently seems to have an alternative project using miniquad to support some here

I personally tried both and prefer macroquad for its simplicity, such as this arkanoid example. I would recommend it for beginners.

What do you think of it ? :)

nicoburns / blessed-rs

Add macroquad to Game Engines #49