Release 49 (#1459)

Co-authored-by: Jan Hohenheim <[email protected]>

Author: AngelOnFira

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 title = "This Month in Rust GameDev #49 - August 2023"
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-date = 2023-09-16
-draft = true
+date = 2023-11-16
+draft = false
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 - [Tooling Updates](#tooling-updates)
 - [Library Updates](#library-updates)
 - [Other News](#other-news)
-- [Popular Workgroup Issues in GitHub](#popular-workgroup-issues-in-github)
-- [Discussions](#discussions)
-- [Requests for Contribution](#requests-for-contribution)
-- [Jobs](#jobs)
 
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 ## Announcements
 
+It's been a while, huh? This newsletter is coming to you with a delay because
+the project cost too much maintainer burden and was put on hold for a while.
+Since then, we have had some restructuring and are back now, starting this month!
+The exact details will be part of April's newsletter, scheduled for release on May 3rd (just 5 days from now!)  
+See you all then!
+
 ## Game Updates
 
 ### [Graviton - The Great Sand Simulator][graviton-steam]
@@ -115,7 +117,7 @@ Here are the most notable updates:
 - The game is now better optimized to run smoothly on the Steam Deck.
 - Some of the textures have been revamped and are now slightly more detailed.
 - The animations of the character portraits have been improved.
-- Several minor quality of life improvements like the ability to sprint have
+- Several minor quality-of-life improvements like the ability to sprint have
   been made.
 - A basic egui-based crash reporter will now be displayed when the game process
   ends unexpectedly.
@@ -131,7 +133,7 @@ made out of simple geometric forms](oort.png)
 _A fleet of ships_
 
 [Oort] ([GitHub][oort-gh], [Discord][oort-dis]) by [@rlane] is a programming
-game where you write Rust code to control space ships in combat against other
+game where you write Rust code to control spaceships in combat against other
 players. Your code needs to manage the thrusters, guns, missiles, comms, and
 radar of each ship in your fleet. There's a series of tutorials where you can
 solve key problems one by one, such as leading moving targets or missile
@@ -222,18 +224,18 @@ Fortress and Cube World.
 In August, Veloren saw a network library update, new locations in the character
 selection screen, the implementation of a new portal graphic, and numerous
 translation updates. Moreover, improvements were made to the airship fixes, loot
-balancing, and group chat issues. There also been upgrades to the dependency, a
-README update, and tweaks to the buff death message.
+balancing, and group chat issues. There have also been upgrades to the
+dependency, a README update, and tweaks to the buff death message.
 
 Ongoing projects currently in the works include the addition of Phoenix
 abilities, NPC arenas, frost Giga attacks, compasses, and a banking storage
 system. Other upcoming updates include an enhancement to the windmills, CI
-scripts, saving window size, the selection of a single-player world, addition of
-lava material, and improvements to the weather network protocol. Work is also
-ongoing on ship movement, pet commands, Terracotta ruins, dwarven quarry,
-coastal towns, clifftown rework, and axe skills. They are also planning to
-implement physics interactions that increase your height when gliding, including
-the introduction of thermal and ridgelines.
+scripts, saving window size, the selection of a single-player world, the
+addition of lava material, and improvements to the weather network protocol.
+Work is also ongoing on ship movement, pet commands, Terracotta ruins, dwarven
+quarry, coastal towns, clifftown rework, and axe skills. They are also planning
+to implement physics interactions that increase your height when gliding,
+including the introduction of thermal and ridgelines.
 
 August's full weekly devlogs: "This Week In Veloren...": [#216][veloren-216].
 
@@ -346,11 +348,11 @@ that simplifies level and object template creation. Here are its key features:
   This enables quick and efficient development iteration.
 - Save your levels and object templates in the standard Bevy scene format
   and spawn in game with just one line of code.
-- Many custom structures that allow to customize saved scenes
+- Many custom structures that allow you to customize saved scenes
   equally conveniently, both via gui and directly editing the saved text file.
 
-The [GitHub project][space_editor] is free for use
-and open to contribute for everyone, be it with suggestions, bugs or PRs.
+The [Github project][space_editor] is free for use
+and open to contributions from everyone, be it with suggestions, bugs or PRs.
 
 [space_editor]: https://github.com/rewin123/space_editor
 
@@ -369,15 +371,15 @@ Features:
   evolve their schemas so long as they are compatible with the de-serializer.
 - Mark entities to get removed on hot reload.
 - Run systems after hot-reload.
-- Create functions to set-up & tear down upon either entering/exiting a state
+- Create functions to set up & tear down upon either entering/exiting a state
   or on hot reload.
 - Only includes any hot reload capacity in your build
   when you explicitly enable it - such as by using the CLI launcher.
 - Cross-platform/cross-device hot reload - run a "hot reload server"
   on a dev environment, and execute the application elsewhere.
 
 The library is quite new and currently known issues include:
-mobile/WASM support and the need to pre-define events&states.
+mobile/WASM support and the need to pre-define events & states.
 
 [dexterous_developer]: https://github.com/lee-orr/dexterous_developer
 [@lee-orr]: https://github.com/lee-orr
@@ -406,10 +408,6 @@ nanogltf comes with a a GL2+/Metal glTF miniquad-based
 [gltf-models]: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF-Sample-Models
 [glTF]: https://khronos.org/gltf
 
-## Popular Workgroup Issues in GitHub
-
-<!-- Up to 10 links to interesting issues -->
-
 ## Other News
 
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@@ -419,19 +417,6 @@ nanogltf comes with a a GL2+/Metal glTF miniquad-based
 
 [tribes-devlog]: https://uvizhe.im/posts/tribes-p2
 
-## Discussions
-
-<!-- Links to handpicked reddit/twitter/urlo/etc threads that provide
-useful information -->
-
-## Requests for Contribution
-
-<!-- Links to "good first issue"-labels or direct links to specific tasks -->
-
-## Jobs
-
-<!-- An optional section for new jobs related to Rust gamedev -->
-
 ------
 
 That's all news for today, thanks for reading!