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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

ffmpeg

Converting Audio into Different Formats / Sample Rates

Minimal example: transcode from MP3 to WMA:
ffmpeg -i input.mp3 output.wma

You can get the list of supported formats with:
ffmpeg -formats

Convert WAV to MP3, mix down to mono (use 1 audio channel), set bit rate to 64 kbps and sample rate to 22050 Hz:

	using System;
	using System.Text;
	using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

	namespace MainColorConsole
	{
	class Program
	{
	static void Main(string[] args)
	{

	// this is the background code...

	// listen for our browerAction to be clicked
	chrome.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(function (tab) {
	// for the current tab, inject the "inject.js" file & execute it
	chrome.tabs.executeScript(tab.ib, {
	file: 'inject.js'
	});
	});

	#! /bin/bash

	### BEGIN INIT INFO
	# Provides: foo
	# Required-Start: $local_fs $network
	# Required-Stop: $local_fs
	# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
	# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
	# Short-Description: foo service
	# Description: Run Foo service

	-- Lua 5.1+ base64 v3.0 (c) 2009 by Alex Kloss <[email protected]>
	-- licensed under the terms of the LGPL2

	-- character table string
	local b='ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/'

	-- encoding
	function enc(data)
	return ((data:gsub('.', function(x)
	local r,b='',x:byte()

	function string.fromhex(str)
	return (str:gsub('..', function (cc)
	return string.char(tonumber(cc, 16))
	end))
	end

	function string.tohex(str)
	return (str:gsub('.', function (c)
	return string.format('%02X', string.byte(c))
	end))

	print("After the XML is loaded", FrameTestFrame)

	local seconds = 10
	local total = 0
	FrameTestFrame:SetScript("OnUpdate", function(self, elapsed)
	total = total + elapsed
	if total > seconds then
	self:SetScript("OnUpdate", nil)
	end
	local sides = 100 + (100 * (total / seconds))

	using System;
	using System.Collections.Generic;
	using System.Linq;
	using System.Text;
	using System.Threading.Tasks;
	using System.Threading;
	using System.Drawing;
	using System.IO;
	using Newtonsoft.Json;