N14: Add Nox Futura and Bracket-lib

content/posts/newsletter-014/index.md

@@ -123,6 +123,30 @@ Imgur screenshot [gallery].
 [Mimas]: https://github.com/est31/mimas
 [gallery]: https://imgur.com/a/vvo7len
 
+### [Nox Futura]
+
+![NoxFuturaScreenshot](noxfutura.png)
+
+[Nox Futura] is a long-term passion project, a Dwarf-Fortress and RimWorld
+inspired base building game. Voxel engine with integrated models, porting
+from a C++ version. It's just emerging from a back-end rewrite bringing in
+goodness from Legion 0.3 and WGPU 0.6.
+
+[The project's repo is public][noxfutura-src].
+
+Currently working:
+
+- Procedural generation of the planet, based on layered 3D Perlin noise.
+- Voxelized landblocks with a chunking system for dynamic changes.
+- Full Dwarf Fortress style "layering".
+- Dynamic settler generation, hair, clothes, professions, skin types, etc.
+- Large scale foliage/vegetation (a few thousand trees and foliage).
+- Dynamic lighting. Time-based sun position and entities can add lights.
+- Data-driven design, pretty much everything is defined in RAW files.
+- Early job system, including lumberjacking and workshop placement.
+
+[noxfutura-src]: https://github.com/thebracket/noxfutura
+
 ### pGLOWrpg
 
 ![pGLOWrpg banner](pglowrpg_banner.png)
@@ -254,6 +278,18 @@ including a tutorial on how to get started.
 
 ## Library & Tooling Updates
 
+### [Bracket-Lib]
+
+[bracket-lib] (previously `rltk_rs`) by [@blackfuture]
+is a Rust implementation of [C++ Roguelike Toolkit][rltk-cpp].
+
+Bracket-lib is going through a stability pass, focusing on freezing the API.
+It will be featured in the author's upcoming book:
+*Hands-on Rust: Effective Learning through 2D Game Development and Play*.
+The book should be going into early access/beta in time for the next newsletter.
+
+[bracket-lib]: https://github.com/thebracket/bracket-lib
+
 ### [Thunderdome]
 
 [Thunderdome] is a ~~gladitorial~~ generational arena library inspired by