raysan5

CUSTOM GAME ENGINES: A Small Study

WARNING: Article moved to separate repo to allow users contributions: https://github.com/raysan5/custom_game_engines

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](https:

pixelsnafu

Volumetric Clouds Resources List

1. A. Schneider, "Real-Time Volumetric Cloudscapes," in GPU Pro 7: Advanced Rendering Techniques, 2016, pp. 97-127. (Follow up presentations here, and here.)

2. S. Hillaire, "Physically Based Sky, Atmosphere and Cloud Rendering in Frostbite" in Physically Based Shading in Theory and Practice course, SIGGRAPH 2016. [video] [course notes] [scatter integral shadertoy]

3. [R. Högfeldt, "Convincing Cloud Rendering – An Implementation of Real-Time Dynamic Volumetric Clouds in Frostbite"](https://odr.chalmers.se/hand

takasek

import Foundation

struct S1: Codable {
    let dateFromTimeInterval: Date
}

struct S2: Codable {
    let dateFromISO8601: Date
}

designatednerd

import Foundation

/**
 A swift protocol to make any Int enum able to count its cases.
 
 Super-useful for making enums to help you deal with sections in tableviews without having to maintain a case for the count of the enum.
 
 Originally developed by Logan Wright for Swift 2.0 here:
 https://gist.github.com/LoganWright/c8a26b1faf538e40f747
 

naoyashiga

import Foundation

enum timingFunction{
    case Linear,EaseIn,EaseOut,EaseInOut,
    Spring,
    EaseInSine,EaseOutSine,EaseInOutSine,
    EaseInQuad,EaseOutQuad,EaseInOutQuad,
    EaseInCubic,EaseOutCubic,EaseInOutCubic,
    EaseInQuart,EaseOutQuart,EaseInOutQuart,
    EaseInQuint,EaseOutQuint,EaseInOutQuint,

iamjason

let state = [ "AK - Alaska", 
                "AL - Alabama", 
                "AR - Arkansas", 
                "AS - American Samoa", 
                "AZ - Arizona", 
                "CA - California", 
                "CO - Colorado", 
                "CT - Connecticut", 
                "DC - District of Columbia", 
                "DE - Delaware", 

syshen

######################
# Options
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REVEAL_ARCHIVE_IN_FINDER=false

FRAMEWORK_NAME="${PROJECT_NAME}"

SIMULATOR_LIBRARY_PATH="${BUILD_DIR}/${CONFIGURATION}-iphonesimulator/${FRAMEWORK_NAME}.framework"