N15: Bevy Engine

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 [Proton-Github]: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton
 [Proton-Media-Converter-Github]: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/tree/proton_5.13/media-converter
 
+### [Bevy Engine][bevy-0-3]
+
+[![bevy logo](bevy_logo.png)][bevy]
+
+[Bevy][bevy] is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust.
+It is [free and open source][bevy-repo] forever!
+
+This month, thanks to 59 contributors, 122 pull requests, and their
+[generous sponsors][bevy-sponsors], Bevy 0.3 was released. You can view the
+[full Bevy 0.3 announcement here][bevy-0-3]. Here are some highlights:
+
+- Initial Android Support
+- Initial iOS Support
+- Asset System Improvements:
+  - Asset Handle Reference Counting
+  - Asset Loaders can now load multiple assets
+  - Sub asset loading
+  - Asset dependencies
+- GLTF Scene Loader
+- Bevy ECS Improvements
+  - Query Ergonomics: query.iter() returns a real iterator now!
+  - 100% lockless parallel ECS
+  - Performance improvements
+  - Thread local resources
+- Flexible Mesh Vertex Attributes and Index Buffer specialization
+- WASM Asset Loading, Touch Input, Transform Re-Rewrite, Gamepad Settings,
+Plugin Groups, Dynamic Window Settings, Documentation Search-Ability
+
+[bevy]: https://bevyengine.org
+[bevy-repo]: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy
+[bevy-0-3]: https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-3
+[bevy-sponsors]: https://github.com/sponsors/cart
+
+Community Updates:
+
+- [bevy_rapier 0.5](https://rapier.rs/docs/user_guides/rust_bevy_plugin/getting_started):
+The Rapier Physics project released updates to their official Bevy plugins, which
+add support for Bevy 0.3 as well as the latest Rapier features [announced here](https://www.dimforge.com/blog/2020/11/01/this-month-in-dimforge)
+- [bevy_easings](https://crates.io/crates/bevy_easings): A plugin for easing a
+component value to another value, mainly used to animate transition between two
+transforms, but usable for other components.
+- [bevy_miniquad](https://github.com/smokku/bevy_miniquad): A plugin replacing
+winit windowing and render pipeline with [miniquad](https://github.com/not-fl3/miniquad)
+library.
+- [physme](https://github.com/walterpie/physme): A simplistic physics engine for
+both 2D and 3D simulation. Physically inaccurate, but feels satisfying and is
+easy to use.
+- [bevy_networking_turbulence](https://github.com/smokku/bevy_networking_turbulence):
+Networking plugin running on [naia-socket](https://github.com/naia-rs/naia-socket)
+and [turbulence](https://github.com/kyren/turbulence) libraries.
+- [Making a Snake Clone](https://mbuffett.com/posts/bevy-snake-tutorial/): Walkthrough
+on how to make a snake clone
+- [bevy_tilemap](https://github.com/joshuajbouw/bevy_tilemap): A plugin with generic
+types for rendering multi-threaded chunk-based tile maps.
+- [Keep Inside](https://github.com/davidB/ld47_keep_inside): A solo pong on a
+circle (made for Ludum Dare 47)
+- [Keep Moving and Nobody Burns](https://github.com/mockersf/kmanb): A bomberman
+against time (made for Ludum Dare 47)
+
+Official Communities: [discord](https://discord.com/invite/gMUk5Ph), [reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/bevy),
+[twitter](https://twitter.com/BevyEngine)
+
+_Discussions:
+[/r/rust](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/jnirl3/bevy_03/),
+[hacker news](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24983956),
+[twitter](https://twitter.com/cart_cart/status/1323731853304422400)_
+
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