Change engine tagline from "a refreshingly simple data-driven engine written in Rust"

[alice-i-cecile]

I mentioned this in this review comment, which @cart said he was open to doing.

Our current tagline is "Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine". Let's break that down!

Refreshingly simple

My major complaint is that I'm not sure that "refreshingly simple" is true these days, especially for devs coming from other languages and paradigms.

Instead, I would prefer if we could focus on one or two of:

• modular or flexible
• code-first
• fast
• refactorable? I think this is really valuable, but doesn't exactly roll-off the tongue
• ECS-first??

Data-driven

No one knows what this means. In theory, this means "you can change behavior by modifying assets on disk". Which is great! And a goal we have! But it's not a reality today.

The other problem is that this is easily confused with "data-oriented", which means "designed in a way that is performant because of smart data layout". This is what an ECS does, but it's also jargon.

Game engine

I mean, technically :p A lot of our users aren't making games! It's still a guiding star though.

People also get mad because "you can't have a game engine without an editor", but I think they're just wrong.

Written in Rust

People gripe about this ("it's about the product, not the technology used to make it!!"), but I think it's important to communicate this upfront, because Rust is what they're going to be writing.

[alice-i-cecile]

My current winner:

"Bevy is a flexible, code-first game engine written in Rust".

[alice-i-cecile]

New favorite: "Bevy: a game engine that lets you build anything."

[cart]

"code-first", while definitely true currently and likely to be true going forward, doesn't feel like the right focus, given our "visual editor" ambitions.

[ChristopherBiscardi]

First thoughts are mostly around focusing on empowering people, which I think is the underlying goal of the rest of the items.

"A modular engine built with Rust, empowering everyone to build games"

[JMS55]

I don't think we should claim code-first. I think when people here that they're going to go "oh, so the editor is second class" (in the future where we have a usable editor).

[cart]

I'll also throw out the fact that Bevy is increasing an "app framework", not just a game engine. I've been sneaking in "app framework" into the tagline in recent posts: "Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine and app framework built in Rust"

[cart]

But I also think we need the exact phrase "game engine" in the tag line or we risk being miscategorized, both by search engines and people.

[cart]

I've been playing with "Bevy: the everything engine" in my head for awhile, but I think that verges on both hubris and not saying enough.

[ChristopherBiscardi]

"everything" and "anything" feel very vague for a tagline, which is mostly going to be interacting with people who have no idea what bevy is capable of or is designed to do.