Welcome!

Welcome to the first Embark developer newsletter! I'm Ari, a developer advocate at the studio.

About once a month, I'll send you a summary of what Embark's been up to in open source and the greater developer ecosystem. I'll also let you know about upcoming events, where you can meet our developer team.

Embark Sponsors the Blender Development Fund

Embark is now a gold sponsor of the Blender development fund! We wrote a love letter to celebrate the announcement - check it out to learn more about how our artists use Blender.

We plan to open-source some of our studio tools for Blender very soon, so watch for those in newsletter 002!

Introducing a new Rust crate

rpmalloc-rs is a Rust crate that enables using the rpmalloc C library as a fast cross-platform memory allocator. We’ve just started using this in our game engine as it is much faster than the system allocator and works across all the platforms that we are supporting (Windows, Mac, Linux).

Rust, Open Source, Game Dev

Embark engineer Jake Shadle gave a talk at the Stockholm Rust meetup about how game development, open source, and Rust fit together. Watch the talk now on our YouTube channel!

An Unholy Fusion of Rust and C++ in physx-rs

Tomasz Stachowiak, senior software engineer at Embark, details his experiences combining Rust and C++ code during the creation of the physx-rs open source project. You can watch the full talk on our YouTube channel!

ICYMI: Iterating Faster with Open Source

Our Director of Infrastructure, Johan Mjönes, wrote a post about how we use open source technology like Kubernetes and Agones to run our game servers. Read it now on Medium!

Call for Speakers: Blender Stockholm

We're looking to host a Blender meetup in mid-December in Stockholm (stay tuned for an announcement in the next newsletter!). If you are in Stockholm and are interested in giving a talk, we'd love to hear from you! Please email opensource@embark-studios.com with a short abstract of your topic and a bit about yourself.

We're always looking for new people to join our team in Stockholm! Here are just a few of our current openings.

Software Engineer (Rust)
Back-end Engineer
Distributed Systems Engineer
Internships - open application
Interactive Prototype Developer
Creative Tools Research Engineer