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Now what? **[Bevy Engine](https://daily.dev/sources/bevy)** · 11 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The author reflects on the first months working full-time at the Bevy Foundation on the open-source Rust game engine Bevy, describing how they adapted their work schedule to a flexible 'focus task' system, weighing the pros and cons of working at a nonprofit dream job (including a modest $84k CAD salary), and outlining plans for the coming year: improving bevy_ui with widgets, localization, focus management, and input handling, growing the working-group model for community contributions, and positioning Bevy to compete beyond the Rust gamedev niche against engines like Unity, Unreal, and Godot. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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