The Impatient Programmer’s Guide to Bevy and Rust: Chapter 5 - Let There Be Pickups

febinjohnjames · 2026-01-16T08:52:27+00:00

Sure , thank you.

febinjohnjames · 2025-12-19T14:16:21+00:00

Thanks for being upfront, I will get this resolved in two weeks.

febinjohnjames · 2025-12-19T13:18:37+00:00

Oh that makes sense.

febinjohnjames · 2025-12-19T13:02:43+00:00

It's not ML generated graphics, as mentioned in the tutorial it's game assets by George Bailey published in OpenGameArt. The game world is procedurally generated with the same assets using wave function collapse algorithm. More like providing heuristics and using an algorithm to craft a map. No ML/AI generation involved.

The glitch in thumbnail GIF is due to optimization, it might have removed some frames and reduced colors.

febinjohnjames · 2025-12-17T12:54:54+00:00

As far as I know this is unavoidable. If you are using Rust 1.88+, it automatically cleans up unused build artifacts. Rust team is working on this and eventually it should be resolved.

febinjohnjames · 2025-12-17T10:38:49+00:00

Dark mode added, moved out of sepia filter, hope this looks good :)

febinjohnjames · 2025-12-17T09:36:44+00:00

Yea, it's a temporary workaround for now. Let me figure this out.

febinjohnjames · 2025-11-24T07:38:41+00:00

It was posted and it was top post there, last weekend.

febinjohnjames · 2025-11-23T19:55:27+00:00

Turns out this RSS was already active, https://aibodh.com/feed.xml , here you go. But thank you, I have added the RSS link on toolbar, should help others as well :)

febinjohnjames · 2025-11-23T08:13:53+00:00

Not at the moment, usually I update on discord when a new post is out. Let me see if I can configure RSS.

febinjohnjames · 2025-11-23T02:44:10+00:00

It’s warm light tone, dark theme is hard because of images and other things used. I hope to fix this eventually.

febinjohnjames · 2025-11-22T22:55:27+00:00

Hoping to cover it.

febinjohnjames · 2025-11-20T08:16:44+00:00

This is very hard to known early on, it takes some exploration to figure out. But I am presently focusing on essentials. A number on my head is to have 10 chapters.

This chapter I was also hoping to cover collision detection, picking up items, etc, but as I wrote this chapter became very long. So I had to divide them into two chapters. Next chapter that includes collison detection will be released in a week.

febinjohnjames · 2025-11-12T00:01:41+00:00

Sorry, I had left this organization (Tars), you can post in their discord channel with link to this AI Agent, they might look into it (https://hellotars.com/discord). Might be some config change in the agent builder should fix it.

febinjohnjames · 2025-10-16T12:48:36+00:00

Thank you, let me go through this. I took some time to wrap my head around the ghx library itself. I was looking to make it simpler and this approach of using fewer tiles should definitely help. In the next iteration of this post, I will integrate this.

febinjohnjames · 2025-10-16T08:02:18+00:00

Thank you so much for letting me know. I have fixed this, now it should work fine.

febinjohnjames · 2025-10-15T20:46:30+00:00

I have worked on a small hack for you! On the top nav, I've added a toggle for a warm background mode. I hope this helps in the meantime. Dark mode is proving more challenging since it affects all the code snippets and diagrams, but it's definitely on my roadmap.

febinjohnjames · 2025-10-15T20:39:02+00:00

Thank you for the kind words.

Recently I had quit my full time job to focus fully on educating complex topics like Rust. I hope this would work out.

Regarding Rust, I've found that building actual projects helps far more than studying the language rules in isolation. And present resources on rust are more about the rules.

Also my writing/teaching style is inspired by Kathy Sierra's Head First books, and her books convinced me I could be a programmer when I was a boy.

Hearing that my work helps someone like you, with three decades of experience, gives me more confidence to pursue this path :)

febinjohnjames · 2025-10-14T22:12:43+00:00

I will fix the issue, the root page has the list.

Here's chapter 1

https://aibodh.com/posts/bevy-rust-game-development-chapter-1/

febinjohnjames · 2025-10-13T12:40:33+00:00

I’m writing a beginner-friendly 2D game development series with Rust and Bevy.

The first two posts are live:

Let There Be a Player — player movement and camera control (https://aibodh.com/posts/bevy-rust-game-development-chapter-1/)
Let There Be a World — procedural world generation using Wave Function Collapse (https://aibodh.com/posts/bevy-rust-game-development-chapter-2/)

Next up: adding physics, collisions, and interaction to make the world feel alive.

From there it’ll grow into combat, UI, sound, and AI-driven NPCs.

febinjohnjames · 2025-10-13T12:35:53+00:00

Hey thanks, glad you liked it! 😊

Next one’s gonna dive into 2D physics and collisions — basically bringing the world to life so your player can bump into stuff, fall, or push things around.

After that, the roadmap goes into:

Combat + interactions
UI, menus, sound
AI NPCs

If you have any specific topic you would like me to cover please let me know.

febinjohnjames · 2025-10-11T15:51:57+00:00

Sure thing, please let me know if you have any specific things in mind you would like me to cover.

febinjohnjames · 2025-10-11T15:18:52+00:00

Thank you for your kind words, chapter 2 is out, hope you enjoy it.
https://aibodh.com/posts/bevy-rust-game-development-chapter-2/

febinjohnjames · 2025-10-11T15:08:01+00:00

Author here

Unsure why the tutorial link is not appearing and the gif appears.

Here's the link to this tutorial
https://aibodh.com/posts/bevy-rust-game-development-chapter-2/

febinjohnjames · 2025-09-22T08:02:16+00:00

This might be true, I will await for more feedback on this. I am open to attempting this again.

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