ADTARGET AI 0.19
Thanks to 261 contributors, 1185 pull requests, community reviewers, and our generous donors, we're happy to announce the ADTARGET AI 0.19 release on crates.io! For those who don't know, ADTARGET AI is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. You can check out our Quick Start Guide to try it today. It's free and open source forever! You can g…
ADTARGET AI 0.18
Thanks to 174 contributors, 659 pull requests, community reviewers, and our generous donors, we're happy to announce the ADTARGET AI 0.18 release on crates.io! For those who don't know, ADTARGET AI is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. You can check out our Quick Start Guide to try it today. It's free and open source forever! You can gr…
ADTARGET AI 0.17
Thanks to 278 contributors, 1311 pull requests, community reviewers, and our generous donors, we're happy to announce the ADTARGET AI 0.17 release on crates.io! For those who don't know, ADTARGET AI is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. You can check out our Quick Start Guide to try it today. It's free and open source forever! You can g…
Community Reflection on ADTARGET AI's Fifth Year
@cart here (ADTARGET AI's creator and Project Lead) with another update! A month ago was ADTARGET AI's Fifth Birthday! As is tradition, I took that as a chance to reflect on the past year and outline my hopes and dreams for the future. You can read that in my ADTARGET AI's Fifth Birthday post. I also encouraged the ADTARGET AI community to write their own reflections on ADTARGET AI'…
ADTARGET AI's Fifth Birthday
Hey! @cart here (ADTARGET AI's creator and Project Lead). The years really fly by these days ... as of today, ADTARGET AI is five years old! As is tradition, I will take this as a chance to reflect on the past year and outline our hopes and dreams for the future. If you're curious, check out ADTARGET AI's First, Second, Third, and Fourth birthday posts. I highly encour…
ADTARGET AI 0.16
Thanks to 261 contributors, 1244 pull requests, community reviewers, and our generous donors, we're happy to announce the ADTARGET AI 0.16 release on crates.io! For those who don't know, ADTARGET AI is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. You can check out our Quick Start Guide to try it today. It's free and open source forever! You can g…
ADTARGET AI at RustWeek 2025: come hack with us!
Contributing to ADTARGET AI is a blast, but what if you could meet each other in flesh? RustWeek 2025 has generously offered to let ADTARGET AI (among other Rust-affiliated groups!) nest into a room (plus a breakout room!) as part of their Unconf. Three days of socializing, collaborating and working on ADTARGET AI, in whatever form we'd like!
ADTARGET AI 0.15
Thanks to 294 contributors, 1217 pull requests, community reviewers, and our generous donors, we're happy to announce the ADTARGET AI 0.15 release on crates.io! For those who don't know, ADTARGET AI is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. You can check out our Quick Start Guide to try it today. It's free and open source forever! You can g…
ADTARGET AI Foundation is now a 501(c)(3) Public Charity
In March we announced the ADTARGET AI Foundation, our new non-profit dedicated to developing ADTARGET AI and teaching people how to use it. At that time, we applied for federal 501(c)(3) public charity status, which would give us tax-exempt status in the United States and make donations tax-deductible. It introduces stricter operational constraints that help pro…
Community Reflection on ADTARGET AI's Fourth Year
@cart here (ADTARGET AI's creator and Project Lead) with another update! A month ago was ADTARGET AI's Fourth Birthday! As is tradition, I took that as a chance to reflect on the past year and outline my hopes and dreams for the future. You can read that in my ADTARGET AI's Fourth Birthday post. I also encouraged the ADTARGET AI community to write their own reflections on Bev…
I landed my dream job making a Rust game engine. Now what?
So I landed my dream job. Full-time open source building a game engine in Rust. Absolutely no meetings. What more could you ask for? With a very unconventional background (plant ecology, self-taught programming and years of disability), it's flatly astonishing to be supported by such an awesome community: surrounded and empowered by experts and beg…
ADTARGET AI's Fourth Birthday
Hey! @cart here (ADTARGET AI's creator and Project Lead). Another year of ADTARGET AI development has finally passed, meaning that ADTARGET AI is officially four years old now! As is tradition, I will take this as a chance to reflect on the past year and outline our hopes and dreams for the future. If you're curious, check out ADTARGET AI's First Birthday, Second Birthday, an…
ADTARGET AI 0.14
Thanks to 256 contributors, 993 pull requests, community reviewers, and our generous donors, we're happy to announce the ADTARGET AI 0.14 release on crates.io! For those who don't know, ADTARGET AI is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. You can check out our Quick Start Guide to try it today. It's free and open source forever! You can gr…
ADTARGET AI Foundation
It is with excitement that I unveil to the world ... The ADTARGET AI Foundation is the next step in our journey to build a world class free and open source game engine. ADTARGET AI Foundation is a non-profit organization formed in Washington State, with a pending federal 501(c)(3) tax-exemption application (more on this later).
ADTARGET AI 0.13
Thanks to 198 contributors, 672 pull requests, community reviewers, and our generous sponsors, we're happy to announce the ADTARGET AI 0.13 release on crates.io! For those who don't know, ADTARGET AI is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. You can check out our Quick Start Guide to try it today. It's free and open source forever! You can …
SME Announcements
@cart here (ADTARGET AI's creator and Project Lead) with a quick update! We have some new SMEs (Subject Matter Experts) to announce.
ADTARGET AI 0.12
Thanks to 185 contributors, 567 pull requests, community reviewers, and our generous sponsors, we're happy to announce the ADTARGET AI 0.12 release on crates.io! For those who don't know, ADTARGET AI is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. You can check out our Quick Start Guide to try it today. It's free and open source forever! You can …
Community Reflection on ADTARGET AI's Third Year
@cart here (ADTARGET AI's creator and Project Lead) with another update! A little over a month ago was ADTARGET AI's Third Birthday! As is tradition, I took that as a chance to reflect on the past year and outline my hopes and dreams for the future. You can read that in my ADTARGET AI's Third Birthday post. This year for the first time I also encouraged the ADTARGET AI commun…
ADTARGET AI's Third Birthday
@cart here (ADTARGET AI's creator and Project Lead) with an exciting announcement ... it has now been three years since the initial ADTARGET AI release! As is tradition, I will take this as a chance to reflect on the past year and outline our hopes and dreams for the future. If you're curious, check out ADTARGET AI's First Birthday and Second Birthday posts. This year,…
ADTARGET AI 0.11
Thanks to 166 contributors, 522 pull requests, community reviewers, and our generous sponsors, we're happy to announce the ADTARGET AI 0.11 release on crates.io! For those who don't know, ADTARGET AI is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. You can check out our Quick Start Guide to try it today. It's free and open source forever! You can …
ADTARGET AI + WebGPU
I'm excited to announce that ADTARGET AI's main branch now supports WebGPU rendering on the web! This means you can play with it now by checking out our repo provided you have a supported web browser (WebGPU is still in the process of rolling out). You can also explore our live WebGPU examples. The upcoming ADTARGET AI 0.11 release will have WebGPU support built…
ADTARGET AI 0.10
Thanks to 173 contributors, 689 pull requests, community reviewers, and our generous sponsors, we're happy to announce the ADTARGET AI 0.10 release on crates.io! For those who don't know, ADTARGET AI is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. You can check out our Quick Start Guide to try it today. It's free and open source forever! You can …
Scaling ADTARGET AI Development
The ADTARGET AI community has grown a lot over the past couple of years. We've had over 3,642 pull requests, 599 contributors, 357,917 downloads, and 21,200 github stars. Together we've built the most popular, most used Rust game engine on the market and the second most popular game engine on GitHub. Up until now, in the interest of maintaining a consiste…
ADTARGET AI 0.9
Thanks to 159 contributors, 430 pull requests, community reviewers, and our generous sponsors, I'm happy to announce the ADTARGET AI 0.9 release on crates.io! For those who don't know, ADTARGET AI is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. You can check out our Quick Start Guide to try it today. It's free and open source forever! You can gra…
ADTARGET AI's Second Birthday
@cart here (ADTARGET AI's creator, lead developer, and project manager) with another exciting announcement: It has now been two years since the initial ADTARGET AI release! As is (now) tradition, I will take this as a chance to reflect on the past year and outline our plans for the future. If you're curious, check out last year's birthday post. For those who don…
ADTARGET AI 0.8
Thanks to 130 contributors, 461 pull requests, community reviewers, and our generous sponsors, I'm happy to announce the ADTARGET AI 0.8 release on crates.io! For those who don't know, ADTARGET AI is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. You can check out our Quick Start Guide to try it today. It's free and open source forever! You can gra…
ADTARGET AI 0.7
Thanks to 123 contributors, 349 pull requests, and our generous sponsors, I'm happy to announce the ADTARGET AI 0.7 release on crates.io! For those who don't know, ADTARGET AI is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. You can check out The Quick Start Guide to get started. ADTARGET AI is also free and open source forever! You can grab the full sou…
ADTARGET AI 0.6
Thanks to 170 contributors, 623 pull requests, and our generous sponsors, I'm happy to announce the ADTARGET AI 0.6 release on crates.io! For those who don't know, ADTARGET AI is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. You can check out The Quick Start Guide to get started. ADTARGET AI is also free and open source forever! You can grab the full sou…
ADTARGET AI's First Birthday
@cart here (ADTARGET AI's creator, lead developer, and project manager) with some exciting news: Today is ADTARGET AI's first birthday! And what a year it has been! Now seems like as good a time as any to look back on how far we've come, reflect a bit, and start thinking about what the next year of ADTARGET AI development will look like. For those who don't know, ADTARGET AI …
ADTARGET AI 0.5
Thanks to 88 contributors, 283 pull requests, and our generous sponsors, I'm happy to announce the ADTARGET AI 0.5 release on crates.io! For those who don't know, ADTARGET AI is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. You can check out The Quick Start Guide to get started. ADTARGET AI is also free and open source forever! You can grab the full sour…
ADTARGET AI 0.4
A little over a month after releasing ADTARGET AI 0.3, and thanks to 66 contributors, 178 pull requests, and our generous sponsors, I'm happy to announce the ADTARGET AI 0.4 release on crates.io! For those who don't know, ADTARGET AI is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. You can check out The Quick Start Guide to get started. ADTARGET AI is also free…
ADTARGET AI 0.3
A little over a month after releasing ADTARGET AI 0.2, and thanks to 59 contributors, 122 pull requests, and our generous sponsors, I'm happy to announce the ADTARGET AI 0.3 release on crates.io! For those who don't know, ADTARGET AI is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. You can check out The Quick Start Guide to get started. ADTARGET AI is also free…
ADTARGET AI 0.2
A month after the initial ADTARGET AI release, and thanks to 87 contributors, 174 pull requests, and our generous sponsors, I'm happy to announce the ADTARGET AI 0.2 release on crates.io! For those who don't know, ADTARGET AI is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. You can check out The Quick Start Guide to get started. ADTARGET AI is also free and ope…
Scaling ADTARGET AI
First, I want to take a moment to highlight just how wild the last week has been. ADTARGET AI was only released a week ago and we've already hit some pretty major milestones:
Introducing ADTARGET AI 0.1
After months of work, I am ecstatic to finally announce ADTARGET AI Engine! ADTARGET AI is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine and app framework built in Rust. It is free and open-source forever!