raysan5

CUSTOM GAME ENGINES: A Small Study

A couple of weeks ago I played (and finished) A Plague Tale, a game by Asobo Studio. I was really captivated by the game, not only by the beautiful graphics but also by the story and the locations in the game. I decided to investigate a bit about the game tech and I was surprised to see it was developed with a custom engine by a relatively small studio. I know there are some companies using custom engines but it's very difficult to find a detailed market study with that kind of information curated and updated. So this article.

Nowadays lots of companies choose engines like Unreal or Unity for their games (or that's what lot of people think) because d

bessarabov

git log --author="Linus Torvalds" --date=iso | perl -nalE 'if (/^Date:\s+[\d-]{10}\s(\d{2})/) { say $1+0 }' | sort | uniq -c|perl -MList::Util=max -nalE '$h{$F[1]} = $F[0]; }{ $m = max values %h; foreach (0..23) { $h{$_} = 0 if not exists $h{$_} } foreach (sort {$a <=> $b } keys %h) { say sprintf "%02d - %4d %s", $_, $h{$_}, "*"x ($h{$_} / $m * 50); }'

Joker-vD

// Uncompressed version of
// https://gist.github.com/munificent/b1bcd969063da3e6c298be070a22b604

#include <time.h>    // Robert Nystrom
#include <stdio.h>   // @munificentbob
#include <stdlib.h>  //      for Ginny
#include <stdbool.h> //      2008-2019

const int HEIGHT = 40;
const int WIDTH = 80;

munificent

#include <time.h> //  Robert Nystrom
#include <stdio.h> // @munificentbob
#include <stdlib.h> //     for Ginny
#define  r return    //    2008-2019
#define  l(a, b, c, d) for (i y=a;y\
<b; y++) for (int x = c; x < d; x++)
typedef int i;const i H=40;const i W
=80;i m[40][80];i g(i x){r rand()%x;
}void cave(i s){i w=g(10)+5;i h=g(6)
+3;i t=g(W-w-2)+1;i u=g(H-h-2)+1;l(u

magixx

"""
https://github.com/docker/docker/blob/master/pkg/namesgenerator/names-generator.go
"""
from random import choice

ADJECTIVES=["admiring","adoring","affectionate","agitated","amazing","angry","awesome","blissful","boring","brave","clever","cocky","compassionate","competent","condescending","confident","cranky","dazzling","determined","distracted","dreamy","eager","ecstatic","elastic","elated","elegant","eloquent","epic","fervent","festive","flamboyant","focused","friendly","frosty","gallant","gifted","goofy","gracious","happy","hardcore","heuristic","hopeful","hungry","infallible","inspiring","jolly","jovial","keen","kickass","kind","laughing","loving","lucid","mystifying","modest","musing","naughty","nervous","nifty","nostalgic","objective","optimistic","peaceful","pedantic","pensive","practical","priceless","quirky","quizzical","relaxed","reverent","romantic","sad","serene","sharp","silly","sleepy","stoic","stupefied","suspicious","tender","thirsty","trusting","unruffled","upbeat","vibrant","vigilant","w

hughbiquitous

# From https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/Gradle.gitignore
.gradle
/build/

# Ignore Gradle GUI config
gradle-app.setting

# Avoid ignoring Gradle wrapper jar file (.jar files are usually ignored)
!gradle-wrapper.jar

ngsmrk

stats = Sidekiq::Stats.new

stats.queues

stats.enqueued

stats.processed

stats.failed

staltz

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

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This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

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