@djee A partial solution here could be coroutines, but after going down that route with https://github.com/darthdeus/koryto and realizing how painful it is to do in Rust (can't take a reference to anything across time barriers) I kind of gave up on that.

There could definitely be a nice data driven approach, just like VFX graph/Niagara, but that's basically impossible without an editor. Bevy is really the only hope here, assuming it can build an editor, and a graph editor for VFX (2/)

@djee Haven't tried Rive, but looks interesting. Last time I checked solutions like these they were quite expensive.

About VFX, I think the problem is just that once you try UE's Niagara or Unity's VFX graph, it becomes painfully obvious how behind we are in thinking that "particle system is something that just spawns a bunch of particles". By time synchronized events I mean doing more than just spawning a particle, e.g. spawning a few in a chain with SFX and some other things (1/)

@alice_i_cecile Thank you for the kind words :) I really appreciate that there is common ground we agree on.

Despite the tone of the article towards Bevy in some parts, I do want to again say my appreciation for your work on it, both in terms of Bevy itself, and in terms of communication and keeping the Bevy Discord a nice place. I really do hope you guys manage to figure out how to improve things in Rust gamedev.