About: who builds Balaur, and why

Balaur is a 2D & 3D node-based game engine. Deterministic ticks, Rune scripts that hot reload in milliseconds. Written in Rust. Free, MIT.

Who

Dragos Daian, appsinacup. Created a replacement for Godot Physics using Rapier in Rust and made a Game Server in Elixir.

• Godot Rapier Physics: Rapier's 2D and 3D physics in Godot.
• Gamend, an open source Elixir game server: auth, lobbies, leaderboards, payments, server hooks. Balaur's Gamend module talks to it.
• Godot Box2D, Godot SoftBody2D, Godot Whisper. More Godot extensions.

Sébastien Crozet, dimforge. Created Rapier, parry and other important Rust libraries.

• Rapier: the physics under Balaur, 2D and 3D.
• Parry is the collision detection under Rapier.
• kiss3d: the renderer under Balaur, uses wgpu.
• nalgebra, salva, bevy_rapier. The rest of dimforge.

Everything else the engine stands on: Built on.

Why

• Godot Rapier Physics makes the physics in Godot deterministic. The rest of the game is not. Balaur makes the whole tick deterministic.
• A bug fix in Godot waits on review and a release. Here we ship faster as we own the repositories.
• Why Balaur.

Contact

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