Beta 5 of Hands-on Rust is now available

Full list of changes:

The fifth beta of Hands-On Rust is now available. It includes the new chapters Combat Systems & Loot, Finishing Touches and a Rust Cheat Sheet. This chapter delves into data-driven design; define your game objects in external data files and map them into the game’s Entity Component System. This lets you quickly enhance the game without needing to recompile.

Data-Driven design is central to fast design workflow, especially if you are collaborating with a team. The programmer(s) define features, game designers and artists can quickly iterate the design to make a fun game.

This beta includes all of the planned content, and marks the start of the road to final production (both print and e-book).

New chapters added:

• Combat Systems and Loot
• Final Steps and Finishing Touches
• Rust Cheat Sheet

This release also includes the following changes:

• Changed subheadings to use the gerund form.
• Instead of periodically changing the dungeonfont.png file, it is created once and re-used throughout the book. The font is defined
• Update to Legion version 0.3.1.
• Add a closing bracket to the code sequence listed in
• Correct the system name
• Clarify the use of ecs and self.ecs
• Clarify making map mutable
• Properly draw attention to usage of find_most_distant
• Add a with_fps_cap call and explanation
• Removed a redundant word
• Highlight the changed constructor
• Include and highlight that MapBuilder needs to become mutable
• Corrected the trait name used
• Add a code highlight
• Remove a sentence that was meant to be removed in the previous beta
• Clarify the text accompanying the code to import RoomsArchitect
• Remind the reader to use the newly created module
• Add instructions to include the Themes module
• Expand code snippet to include resource selection

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