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## Game Updates

### [A/B Street][abstreet] - Adjust traffic patterns in real cities

Ever been on a bus stuck in traffic, wondering why there are cars parked on the
road instead of a bus lane? A/B Street is a game exploring how small changes to
road space and traffic signals affect the movement of drivers, cyclists,
transit users, and pedestrians. The game models Seattle as accurately as
possible using OpenStreetMap and other public datasets, lets the player adjust
existing infrastructure, and then does a detailed comparison to see who the
changes help and hurt.

A/B Street is Rust, using a custom GUI library on top of `glium`. [Play it
now](https://github.com/dabreegster/abstreet/blob/master/docs/INSTRUCTIONS.md)
and [start contributing](https://github.com/dabreegster/abstreet/issues) to
expand the game to more cities, model light rail and shared foot/bike paths,
and work on gameplay modes (like "make everything as slow as possible" and
"what if nobody owned and parked personal vehicles?").

![Demo of some UI work in A/B Street](abstreet.gif)

December highlights:

- Preview traffic signal changes "live" without resetting the simulation
- UI: new minimap, popup info panels with graphs, better shapes and colors for
cars
- Data viz: histogram showing count of faster/slower trips, visualizing which
road has the longest backup at a traffic signal, breaking down the timeline
of a trip (walk to a car, drive somewhere, look for parking, walk to
destination...)
- Improved pedestrian pathfinding and decisions to use a bus or not

[abstreet]: https://github.com/dabreegster/abstreet#ab-street

## Library & Tooling updates

## Popular Workgroup Issues in Github
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- [ggez's "good first issue" issues][ggez-issues];
- [Veloren's "beginner" issues][veloren-beginner];
- [Amethyst's "good first issue" issues][amethyst-issues];
- [A/B Street's "good first issue" issues][abstreet-issues];

[help-steam-libs]: https://reddit.com/r/rust/comments/diuqg7/need_help_porting_steam_libraries_to_rust
[embark.rs]: https://embark.rs
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[ggez-issues]: https://github.com/ggez/ggez/labels/%2AGOOD%20FIRST%20ISSUE%2A
[veloren-beginner]: https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren/issues?label_name=beginner
[amethyst-issues]: https://github.com/amethyst/amethyst/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22
[abstreet-issues]: https://github.com/dabreegster/abstreet/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22

## Bonus

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