raysan5

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

Treeki

#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

// munged from https://github.com/simontime/Resead

namespace sead
{
class Random
{

maboloshi

Mac下配置Aria2

安装和设置 Aria2

# 使用 Homebrew 安装 aria2
brew install aria2

# 创建配置文件aria2.conf和空对话文件aria2.session
mkdir ~/.aria2 && cd ~/.aria2
touch aria2.conf

silvesthu

GPU Optimization for GameDev

Graphics Pipeline / GPU Architecture Overview

• 2011 - A trip through the Graphics Pipeline 2011
• 2015 - Life of a triangle - NVIDIA's logical pipeline
• 2015 - Render Hell 2.0
• 2016 - How bad are small triangles on GPU and why?
• 2017 - GPU Performance for Game Artists
• 2019 - Understanding the anatomy of GPUs using Pokémon
• 2020 - GPU ARCHITECTURE RESOURCES

ChemistAion

#include "nodes.h"

namespace ImGui
{
	void ImGuiNodes::UpdateCanvasGeometry(ImDrawList* draw_list)
	{
		const ImGuiIO& io = ImGui::GetIO();

		mouse_ = ImGui::GetMousePos();

rtroe

using System;
using Microsoft.Xna.Framework;
using Virtex.Lib.Vrtc.Core;
using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.GamerServices;

#if __IOS__
using CoreGraphics;
using UIKit;
using Google.MobileAds;
#endif

joshbuchea

Semantic Commit Messages

See how a minor change to your commit message style can make you a better programmer.

Format: <type>(<scope>): <subject>

<scope> is optional

Example

abcdabcd987

#!/bin/bash
# save as /root/del_user.sh

USERNAME=$1
if [[ -z "$USERNAME" ]]; then
    echo "Please give me a username"
    exit 1
fi

echo "This script will"

bkaradzic

Why I think Immediate Mode GUI is way to go for GameDev tools

Prerequisites

Before you continue, if you don't know what IMGUI is don't bother reading this post, just ignore it, don't write anything in comments section, etc. If you're curious about IMGUI see bottom of this post, otherwise continue whatever you were doing, this post it's not for you. Thanks!

If you know what IMGUI is, for context read following presentations and blog posts:

• Insomniac’s Web Tools Postmortem

bkaradzic

Orthodox C++

What is Orthodox C++?

Orthodox C++ (sometimes referred as C+) is minimal subset of C++ that improves C, but avoids all unnecessary things from so called Modern C++. It's exactly opposite of what Modern C++ suppose to be.

Why not Modern C++?