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Game Development with Rust and WebAssembly

You're reading from   Game Development with Rust and WebAssembly Learn how to run Rust on the web while building a game

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801070973
Length 476 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Eric Smith Eric Smith
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Getting Started with Rust, WebAssembly, and Game Development
2. Chapter 1: Hello WebAssembly FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Drawing Sprites 4. Part 2: Writing Your Endless Runner
5. Chapter 3: Creating a Game Loop 6. Chapter 4: Managing Animations with State Machines 7. Chapter 5: Collision Detection 8. Chapter 6: Creating an Endless Runner 9. Chapter 7: Sound Effects and Music 10. Chapter 8: Adding a UI 11. Part 3: Testing and Advanced Tricks
12. Chapter 9: Testing, Debugging, and Performance 13. Chapter 10: Continuous Deployment 14. Chapter 11: Further Resources and What's Next? 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Debugging the game

To debug a traditional program, be it in Java, C#, or C++, we must set breakpoints and step through the code. In JavaScript, we can type the word debugger to set a breakpoint, but although WebAssembly runs in the browser, it isn't JavaScript. So, how do we debug it?

There's a lot of conflicting information about debugging with WebAssembly. How do you debug WebAssembly? Well, according to the official Rust WebAssembly documentation, it's simple – you can't!

Unfortunately, the debugging story for WebAssembly is still immature. On most Unix systems, DWARF is used to encode the information that a debugger needs to provide source-level inspection of a running program. There is an alternative format that encodes similar information on Windows. Currently, there is no equivalent for WebAssembly. Therefore, debuggers currently provide limited utility, and we end up stepping through raw WebAssembly instructions emitted by the compiler, rather...

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