How Big Is the Community for Game Development?

Allen Wyma talks with Forest Anderson, co-host at Rust GameDev Podcast, and core dev on Veloren. Allen and Forest talk about Veloren, a multiplayer voxel RPG game engine, written in Rust.

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Timestamps

• [@00:11] - Introduction
• [@03:31] - The Rust Game Dev Team
• [@07:31] - The size of the community for Rust game development
• [@10:48] - The complexity of game development
• [@12:43] - How Veloren was created
• [@18:30] - What is Veloren
• [@22:52] - The kinds of games that can be developed in Veloren
• [@25:36] - The advantage of using Rust in game development
• [@31:51] - Game development experience in Linux vs Windows
• [@34:46] - Gaming community for Linux
• [@37:40] - System Requirement for running Veloren
• [@42:17] - Parting thoughts
• [@43:54] - Where to reach out and how to get involved with Veloren and in the Rust Game Dev community

Credits

Intro Theme: Aerocity

Audio Editing: Plangora

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

Show Notes: Plangora

Hosts: Allen Wyma