Bevy in Action: Build, Polish, and Deploy a Match‑Three Game

Bevy is a great framework to build any kind of applications: data visualization, simulations, computer assisted design software… and of course games. All questions, levels and use cases are welcomed!

The workshop will follow a learn‑by‑doing methodology, learning from peers and expert instructors.

We will start with an introduction to Bevy basics: the ECS, queries, and the application.

Attendees will then be provided with a minimal, functional prototype of a match-three game that already compiles and runs. They will work in small teams (or on their own if desired!) to use Bevy basics to customize the game, adding more features, gameplay elements and polish!

After a break, we will review what everyone has learned, then look into how to deploy the game to the attendees platforms of choice: native, WebAssembly, Android or iOS. Bevy is multiplatform, with a few limitations we will talk about.

We will then give pointers to how Bevy helps with debugging with things like an inspector or tracing, faster iteration with hot reloading or hot patching, how to organize your code for long-term maintenance, and how to release a project.

We will then continue the workshop with more advanced features, like shaders, observers, UI, third party plugins, … and using them to add more features to our game and give it juice!

Bevy has a few system dependencies and limitations, and attendees would benefit to do the Getting Started guide, in particular the Setup to ensure their computer will be able to run the workshop.