Creating a Snake game clone with Rust/Bevy
Code is here: https://github.com/bebrws/bevy-snake I had a lot of fun practicing Rust and Learning some Bevy concepts with this repository. Bevy has an incredibly powerful dependency injection system and follows a pattern called ECS which makes it very powerful (and new to me). This simple < 300 lines of code might help with learning some Bevy concepts. It also shows how to copmile for the web/WASM and inject a canvas for the game (or use a pre existing div).
Creating a Snake game clone with Rust/Bevy launched on February 19, 2024 with 44 votes, #925 of 3,962 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
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This is a Snake game clone built with Rust and the Bevy game engine, available as open-source code on GitHub. It demonstrates Bevy's entity component system (ECS) architecture and dependency injection capabilities in under 300 lines of code. The project is designed for developers learning Rust and Bevy concepts, and includes examples of compiling to WebAssembly and embedding the game in a web canvas or existing HTML div.
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Brad Barrows' Blog
Bevy has an amazing dependency injection system that makes its "ECS" (Entity Component System) architecture very easy and ituitive to use. Really the DI system is one of the most amazing Rust feats that I have seen so far. ECS is documented here It describes some of the basic concepts of how the Bevy game engine works. Combined with a powerful dependency injection (DI) system, Bevy is powerful, easy to work with, and fun to use. For my snake game I only needed the concept of three entities really: the snake, the food, and the snake's body. This is done by the C part of ECS. I create a Component for each. This allows me to, later on, using the DI/query system executed on each game loop, to…from bbarrows.com
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