Chapter Overview

This book is organized into a number of different chapters, covering different aspects of working with Bevy. The is designed to be useful as a reference and learning tool, so you can jump to what interests you and learn about it.

If you would like a more guided tutorial-like experience, or to browse the book by relative difficulty (from beginner to advanced), try the guided tutorial page. It recommends topics in a logical order for learning.

The Bevy Builtins page is a concise cheatsheet of useful information about types and features provided by Bevy.

The book has the following general chapters:

• Bevy Tutorials: complete tutorials that you can follow to help you learn
• Bevy Setup Tips: project setup advice, recommendations for tools and plugins
• Common Pitfalls: solutions for common issues encountered by the community
• Bevy Cookbook: various code examples beyond the ones in Bevy official repos
• Bevy on Different Platforms: information about working with specific plaforms / OSs
• Appendix: General Concepts: various general gamedev knowledge, not specific to Bevy

To learn how to program in Bevy, see these chapters:

• Bevy Programming Framework: the ECS+App frameworks, the foundation of everything
• Programming Patterns: opinionated advice, patterns, idioms
• Bevy Render (GPU) Framework: working with the GPU and Bevy's rendering

The following chapters cover various Bevy feature areas:

• General Game Engine Features: general features that don't belong in any other chapter
• Asset Management: working with data assets
• Input Handling: working with different input devices
• Window Management: working with the OS window
• Working with 2D: Bevy's features for 2D games
• Working with 3D: Bevy's features for 3D games