hecrj/coffee
An opinionated 2D game engine for Rust observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
23/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 2710
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 913
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1146 stars · 56 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Coffee is an opinionated 2D game engine for Rust focused on simplicity, explicitness, and type-safety. It provides a hardware-accelerated 2D graphics API, built-in GUI, loading screens, a debug view, and multiplatform backends via OpenGL, Vulkan, Metal, and D3D11/12.
Use cases
- build a 2D game in Rust
- make a 2D game with a simple Rust game engine
- create a cross-platform 2D game with hardware-accelerated graphics
- add a responsive GUI to a Rust game
- render batched sprites and meshes in Rust
- prototype a small 2D game with deterministic fixed timestep
When to choose
- You want a simple, explicit, type-safe 2D engine in Rust
- You need built-in GUI, loading screens, and a debug performance view
- You want multiplatform graphics backends (OpenGL, Vulkan, Metal, D3D11/12)
- You value deterministic fixed timestep and batched draws
When to avoid
- You need a mature, feature-complete engine - Coffee is in a very early stage with many basic features missing
- You need 3D rendering
- You need long-term stability - the master branch can contain breaking changes and releases are infrequent
- You need a large community and ecosystem
Facets
library · maturity maintenance
game-engine graphics gui graphics cross-platform windows rust cross-platform 2d gamedev opinionated type-safety wgpu opengl vulkan metal gamepad-support sprite-batching game-development linux macos
10 sources
- readme: https://github.com/hecrj/coffee · fetched 2026-08-28 · e057c27a23e8
- homepage: https://docs.rs/coffee · fetched 2026-08-29 · b1c1f490b54a
- site_page: https://docs.rs/about/builds · fetched 2026-08-29 · 811231ca4680
- site_page: https://docs.rs/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · bd558917e69a
- site_page: https://docs.rs/crate/coffee/latest · fetched 2026-08-29 · 96af19e7d960
- site_page: https://docs.rs/crate/coffee/latest/features · fetched 2026-08-29 · 26ec0f89102d
- site_page: https://docs.rs/about · fetched 2026-08-29 · 29ab7986fbf5
- site_page: https://docs.rs/about/badges · fetched 2026-08-29 · 6588cac258af
- site_page: https://docs.rs/about/metadata · fetched 2026-08-29 · 0dcdccb2b2b2
- site_page: https://docs.rs/about/redirections · fetched 2026-08-29 · 1b1efd93105f
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| hecrj/coffee | main | 23 |
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