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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

How to setup Let's Encrypt for Nginx on Ubuntu 18.04 (including IPv6, HTTP/2 and A+ SLL rating)

Virtual hosts

Let's say you want to host domains first.com and second.com.

Create folders for their files:

What forces layout / reflow

All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.

Generally, all APIs that synchronously provide layout metrics will trigger forced reflow / layout. Read on for additional cases and details.

Element APIs

Getting box metrics

elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParent

	// Original shader by @bgolus, modified slightly by @alexanderameye for URP, modified slightly more
	// by @gravitonpunch for ECS/DOTS/HybridRenderer.
	// https://twitter.com/bgolus
	// https://medium.com/@bgolus/the-quest-for-very-wide-outlines-ba82ed442cd9
	// https://alexanderameye.github.io/
	// https://twitter.com/alexanderameye/status/1332286868222775298

	Shader "Hidden/Outline"
	{
	Properties

	#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 700
	#include <signal.h>
	#include <unistd.h>

	int main()
	{
	sigset_t set;
	int status;

	if (getpid() != 1) return 1;