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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

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raylib: 6 years of fun

raylib has been in development for more than six years now, it has been an adventure! I decided to resume how it was my personal experience working in this free and open source project for such a long time. Just note that the following article explains raylib from a personal point of view, independently of the technical aspects and focusing on the personal adventure; for technical details on raylib evolution, just check raylib history and raylib changelog.

raylib inceptum

Summer 2012 was ending, I had been working hard on my brand new startup emegeme for about 9 months, developing videogames. I was trying to find my blue-ocean, so, I developed and published two games for Windows Phone platform using the ama

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Core Coding Standard

Coding practices are a source of a lot of arguments among programmers. Coding standards, to some degree, help us to put certain questions to bed and resolve stylistic debates. No coding standard makes everyone happy. (And even their existence is sure to make some unhappy.) What follows are the standards we put together on the Core team, which have become the general coding standard for all programming teams on new code development. We’ve tried to balance the need for creating a common, recognizable and readable code base with not unduly burdening the programmer with minor code formatting concerns.

Table Of Contents

• Why we need Coding Standards
• Context is Important
• Stylistic Standards

• Namespaces

LearnCocos2D

For background and further references see: Entity Component Systems on Wikipedia

ECS by Scott Bilas (GDC 2002)

Entity->Components->Update

• entity = class: no logic + no data OR at most small set of frequently used data (ie position)
• component = class: logic + data

foreach entity in allEntities do
    foreach component in entity.components do