Master's thesis prototype game engine

This repository contains the game engine written for my University of Helsinki Master's thesis in 2025, Game engine implementation in the Rust programming language. The engine's applicability as a game engine was validated by using it to build the Diving for Oxygen game for Ludum Dare 57.

The online repository and CI results can be found at: https://github.com/pcjens/rust-game-engine-prototype

The documentation for the Rust code can be found at: https://pcjens.github.io/rust-game-engine-prototype/engine/

Building

Dependencies:

• Rust and cargo
• SDL2 from your system package manager (libsdl2-dev on Debian), or:
  • Built alongside the engine, with the sdl2/bundled feature, though this requires CMake and SDL's own dependencies to be installed instead.
  • Downloaded from Microsoft's vcpkg package manager with the sdl2/use-vcpkg feature, though this requires vcpkg to be installed instead.

The engine can be built straightforwardly with cargo build. (Or cargo build --features sdl2/bundled, or cargo build --features sdl2/use-vcpkg, depending on your source of SDL.)

License

All the code in this repository can be used under the terms of the GNU GPL 3.0 license, and all the files have been annotated to be understood by the reuse tool.