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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

Making a PDF + Bootable ISO Hybrid Polyglot

If you've not seen my résumé, that is what this post is about, and you should probably look at it first to get an idea of what's happening.

A Tale of Two Files

PDF and ISO9660 are two very different file formats. PDF is actually a surprisingly human-readable (but, sadly, not very human-writable) plain-text format, technically descended from PostScript. PDF is not very forgiving on changes, as it stores tables of offsets to various elements, so it is very difficult to insert or remove content manually without going through a robust PDF manipulation library.

ISO9660 is a disk filesystem, meant to be written once and read many times on many different kinds of hardware. As it is sector-based, it expects data structures to be at particular absolute offsets.

Ok, I geeked out, and this is probably more information than you need. But it completely answers the question. Sorry. ☺

Locally, I'm at this commit:

$ git show
commit d6cd1e2bd19e03a81132a23b2025920577f84e37
Author: jnthn <[email protected]>
Date:   Sun Apr 15 16:35:03 2012 +0200

When I added FIRST/NEXT/LAST, it was idiomatic but not quite so fast. This makes it faster. Another little bit of masak++'s program.

	// 3D Dom viewer, copy-paste this into your console to visualise the DOM as a stack of solid blocks.
	// You can also minify and save it as a bookmarklet (https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-are-bookmarklets/)
	(() => {
	const SHOW_SIDES = false; // color sides of DOM nodes?
	const COLOR_SURFACE = true; // color tops of DOM nodes?
	const COLOR_RANDOM = false; // randomise color?
	const COLOR_HUE = 190; // hue in HSL (https://hslpicker.com)
	const MAX_ROTATION = 180; // set to 360 to rotate all the way round
	const THICKNESS = 20; // thickness of layers
	const DISTANCE = 10000; // ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

	from pyray import *
	import csv

	# Constants
	start_wid = 800
	start_hgt = 600
	debug = True


	def lerp(v1: Vector2, v2: Vector2, ratio: float):

	#ifndef _MACROS_H
	#define _MACROS_H

	#include <stdint.h>
	#include <stdarg.h>

	/*
	The following macros are used to prepend the number of arguments for
	variadic functions.
	*/

	I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Windows,
	is in fact, GNU/NT, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus NT.
	Windows NT is not an operating system unto itself, but rather a proprietery component
	of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell
	utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

	Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day,
	without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU
	which is widely used today is often called "Windows NT", and many of its users are
	not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

	_ = (
	255,
	lambda
	V ,B,c
	:c and Y(V*V+B,B, c
	-1)if(abs(V)<6)else
	( 2+c-4abs(V)*-0.4)/i
	) ;v, x=1500,1000;C=range(v*x
	);import struct;P=struct.pack;M,\
	j ='<QIIHHHH',open('M.bmp','wb').write

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CUSTOM GAME ENGINES: A Small Study

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Making a PDF + Bootable ISO Hybrid Polyglot

A Tale of Two Files