Awesome Bevy

This is an awesome list maintained by https://taintedcoders.com.

Only resources that are up to date with at least 0.18 Bevy will be included.

Table of contents

• Resources
• Starters
• Open Source Projects
• Animation
• Assets
• Audio
• Cameras
• Code organization
• Editor and Workflow
• Graphics and Rendering
• Input
• Misc
• Networking
• Pathfinding
• Physics
• Text
• Testing
• UI

Resources

• Tainted Coders
• Unofficial Bevy Cheatbook
• Simple Bevy Tutorial: Breaks the version rule above but still great content
• Roguelike Tutorial - In Rust: Not quite bevy but an awesome read, lots of crossover
• Bevy Constellation: Visualize updated crates in the Bevy ecosystem
• BevyDex: Find updated and popular dependencies for Bevy

Starters

• Tainted Coders - Bevy Starter
• bevy_new_2d
• bevy_space
• bevy_quickstart
• bevy_game_template
• bevy_github_ci_template
• limitpush

Open Source Projects

Not all resources in this section will be up to date but are useful nonetheless

• warbell
• foxtrot
• bevy-match-3
• Emergence
• Digial Extinction
• Riverbed
• Power
• SolarSim
• Taipo
• Chainboom
• Brotato in Bevy
• Dark Wisps Defence
• nannou
• bevy_fs

Assets

• bevy_asset_loader: Bevy plugin helping with asset loading and organization
• bevy_rpack: Create tilemaps in seconds!
• skein: Convert glTF extras to Bevy Components using reflection
• bevy_march: A ray marcher for bevy, which can function alongside the regular mesh-based rendering
• bevy_materialize: Load, store, and apply type-erased materials in Bevy
• bevy_common_assets: Collection of generic asset loaders for common file formats
• bevy_mod_mipmap_generator: A basic mipmap generator for Bevy
• bevy_water: Dynamic ocean material for Bevy
• bevy_ecs_ldtk: ECS-friendly ldtk plugin for bevy, leveraging bevy_ecs_tilemap
• bevy_ecs_tiled: Helpers for working with 2D tilemaps created with the Tiled map editor
• bevy-persistent: A Bevy helper to easily manage resources that need to persist across game sessions
• bevy-yoleck: Your Own Level Editor Creation Kit
• bevy_procedural_tilemaps: Lightweight 2D tilemap generation with Wave Function Collapse / Model Synthesis for Bevy
• bevy_svg: A simple and incomplete SVG drawer for the Bevy engine
• bevy_simple_prefs: A small Bevy plugin for persisting multiple Resources to a single file
• bevy_obj: Wavefront OBJ mesh asset loader plugin for the Bevy engine
• bevy_embedded_assets: Embed assets in your Bevy game

Audio

• bevy_fmod: Idiomatic integration of the FMOD audio engine into Bevy projects
• bevy_seedling: A sprouting integration of the Firewheel audio engine
• bevy_kira_audio: A Bevy plugin to use Kira for game audio

Animation

• bevy_animation_graph: Animation graphs in Bevy
• bevy_lookup_curve: Editable lookup curve for Bevy
• bevy_easings: Easing and simple animations for Bevy

Cameras

• bevy_third_person_camera: A third person camera crate written for Bevy
• bevy_editor_cam: A camera controller for editors and CAD
• bevy_pancam: A bevy plugin for panning orthographic cameras
• bevy_flycam: Basic first-person fly camera for the Bevy game engine

Code Organization

• seldom_state: Component-based state machine plugin for Bevy. Useful for AI, player state, and other entities that occupy different states.
• bevy_cli: A prototype Bevy CLI tool intended to streamline common tasks when working on projects.
• bevy_behave: Behaviour trees for bevy, with on-demand entity spawning for task nodes
• bevy_flurx: Allows you to use coroutine in Bevy
• beet: Beet extends the capabilities of bevy with systems for developing and publishing applications
• bevy_gauge: A flexible stat and modifier system

Editors and Workflow

• jackdaw: A Bevy scene editor with hierarchy, inspector and 3D viewport
• blenvy: Bevy Code & Blender addon for a simple workflow to add & edit Bevy components in Blender
• bevy_mod_scripting: Bevy Scripting Plugin
• bevy_mod_outline: a Bevy plugin for drawing outlines around meshes using the vertex extrusion and jump flood methods
• bevy_trenchbroom: Quake map editor, TrenchBroom integration, .map, and .bsp loading for Bevy
• bevy_mod_debugdump: Dump your schedules for visual inspection
• bevy-inspection.vscode: Bevy Inspection - VSCode Extension
• HillVacuum: A bevy-based 2D map editor
• vscode-bevy-inspector: Bevy Inspector Visual Studio Code Extension
• bevy_aseprite_ultra: The ultimate bevy aseprite binary plugin. Featuring animations and static atlas loading with pivots. Full support for hot reloading!

Graphics and Rendering

• bevy_hanabi: a GPU particle system plugin for the Bevy game engine
• bevy_vello: An integration to render with Vello in the Bevy game engine
• bevy_sprite3d: Use sprites in a 3d bevy scene
• bevy_vector_shapes: A library for rendering vector shapes using the Bevy game engine
• shadplay: Real-time wgsl visualisation tooling for educating oneself in the art of shader programming
• bevy_feronia: Environment scattering tools and shaders/materials that prioritize visual fidelity/artistic freedom, a declarative API and modularity
• bevy_firework: CPU-driven, batch-rendered particle system for the Bevy game engine
• bevy_enoki: 2D particle system with custom material traits. Works well in wasm webgl2 and mobile
• noisy_bevy: Simple stupid noise primitives for WGSL and Rust (glam/bevy types)
• bevy_spritesheet_animation: A Bevy plugin for easily animating 2D and 3D sprites

Input

• leafwing-input-manager: A straightforward stateful input manager for the Bevy game engine. This library is being upstreamed into Bevy
• bevy_enhanced_input: Dynamic and contextual input mappings for Bevy
• bevy_ui_text_input: Text input crate for Bevy UI using cosmic text
• bevy_ahoy: A fun 3D Kinematic Character Controller for Bevy
• bevy-tnua: A floating character controller for Bevy
• bevy_oxr: A crate for adding openxr (and in the future webxr) support to Bevy

Networking

• lightyear: A library for writing server-authoritative multiplayer games with Bevy
• bevy_replicon: Server-authoritative networking crate for the Bevy game engine
• bevy_renet: A Bevy Plugin for the renet crate. A network crate for Server/Client with cryptographically secure authentication and encypted packets. Designed for fast paced competitive multiplayer games
• renet2: Renet2 is a network library for Server/Client games written in rust. It is focused on fast-paced games such as FPS, and competitive games
• bevy_rewind: Server-authoritative rollback networking for bevy
• bevy_oxr: A crate for adding openxr (and in the future webxr) support to Bevy
• bevy_streaming: Bevy Streaming for Cloud Gaming through WebRTC
• bevy_ggrs: Bevy plugin for the GGRS P2P rollback networking library
• bevy_quinnet: A Client/Server game networking plugin using QUIC, for the Bevy game engine
• aeronet: Set of Bevy-native networking crates, focused on providing robust and rock-solid data transfer primitives

Misc

• big_space: Floating origin plugin for spaces larger than the universe
• bevy_play_card: A card crate for the Bevy game engine
• bevy_shuffle_bag: A tiny crate providing a shuffle bag, which is a collection of items that can endlessly be picked in a random, nonrepeating order.
• noiz: A simple, configurable, blazingly fast noise library built for and with Bevy
• bevy_framepace: Framepacing and framelimiting for Bevy
• moonshine_save: A save/load framework for Bevy game engine
• hexx: Hexagonal tools lib in rust
• bevy-in-web-worker: Running a Bevy app in a Web Worker and interacting with HTML elements and the Bevy engine
• leafwing_manifest: Data-driven content generation for Bevy
• bevy_rand: A plugin to integrate rand for ECS optimised RNG for the Bevy game engine
• bevy_http_client: A simple HTTP client Bevy Plugin for both native and WASM

Physics

• avian: ECS-driven 2D and 3D physics engine for the Bevy game engine
• bevy_rapier: Official Rapier plugin for the Bevy game engine
• bevy_heavy: Mass properties for Bevy's geometric primitives.
• bevy_transform_interpolation: Transfom interpolation for fixed timesteps for the Bevy game engine
• avian_pickup: A plugin for implementing picking up dynamic rigid bodies in Avian physics for the Bevy engine
• bevy_mod_inverse_kinematics: An inverse kinematics plugin for the Bevy engine

Pathfinding

• vleue_navigator: Pathfinding on NavMeshes for Bevy
• bevy_northstar: Hierachical Pathfinding for Bevy
• bevy_rerecast: Rust port of Recast, the industry-standard navigation mesh generator used by Unreal, Unity, Godot, and other game engines

Text

• bevy_pretty_text: Text2D effects library for the Bevy game engine
• bevy_rich_text3d: Mesh based bevy text implementation
• bevy_simple_text_input: Bevy plugin for a simple single-line text input widget

Testing

• rmv-bevy-testing-tools: Some tools to make testing bevy stuff easier
• bevy_console: A simple Half-Life inspired console with support for argument parsing powered by clap

UI

• bevy_egui: An immediate mode UI library
• bevy_lunex: Blazingly fast path based retained layout engine for Bevy entities, built around vanilla Bevy ECS
• haalka: Ergonomic reactive Bevy UI library powered by FRP signals
• transform-gizmo: 3d transformation gizmo
• bevy_healthbar_3d: Health bar for bevy implemented as a billboard shader
• bevy_ui_anchor: Microlibrary for adding anchoring to UI
• bevy_immediate: Immediate mode UI library for Bevy, simple and extensible
• bevy_material_ui: Material UI library for bevy UI
• bevy_ios_safearea: Bevy plugin to query ios device safe area insets
• bevy_hui: Component based UI crate using Xml/Html with focus on hot reload for the bevy engine
• bevy_flair: Bevy UI styling using CSS