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

alisdair

#!/bin/bash

# Generate a `:something-intensifies:` Slack emoji, given a reasonable image
# input. I recommend grabbing an emoji from https://emojipedia.org/

set -euo pipefail

# Number of frames of shaking
count=10
# Max pixels to move while shaking

0x4D31

Transforming Code into Beautiful, Idiomatic Python

Notes from Raymond Hettinger's talk at pycon US 2013 video, slides.

The code examples and direct quotes are all from Raymond's talk. I've reproduced them here for my own edification and the hopes that others will find them as handy as I have!

Looping over a range of numbers

for i in [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]:

rohitkothari

How to parameterize a Hashicorp's Nomad Job for user-defined variables?

Description

This sample Nomad job attempts to clone a github repository from a github account, and then perform ls command to verify if it downloaded.

However, the cool thing is, it uses parameterized construct to parameterize the repository name so I can re-use this nomad job to clone any repository at runtime.

Motivation for writing

egmontkob

Hyperlinks (a.k.a. HTML-like anchors) in terminal emulators

[ Update 2020-05-31: I won't be maintaining this page or responding to comments anymore (except for perhaps a few exceptional occasions). ]

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Most of the terminal emulators auto-detect when a URL appears onscreen and allow to conveniently open them (e.g. via Ctrl+click or Cmd+click, or the right click menu).

It was, however, not possible until now for arbitrary text to point to URLs, just as on webpages.

99z

Virtualbox settings

VM creation

1. Type: Other
2. Version: Other/Unknown, not 64bit

VM settings

1. Audio -> Audio controller: SoundBlaster 16
2. Network -> Advanced -> Adapter type: Intel/PRO1000 MT Server

longtimeago

How to squash commits in a GitHub pull request

o you've contributed some code to an open source project, say, Rails. And they'd like you to squash all of the commits in your pull request. But you're not a git wizard; how do you make this happen?

Normally, you'd do something like this. I'm assuming upstream is a git remote that is pointing at the official project repository, and that your changes are in your 'omgpull' branch:

subfuzion

Common Options

-#, --progress-bar Make curl display a simple progress bar instead of the more informational standard meter.

-b, --cookie <name=data> Supply cookie with request. If no =, then specifies the cookie file to use (see -c).

-c, --cookie-jar <file name> File to save response cookies to.

cynipe

package main

import (
	"os"
	"fmt"

	"github.com/mitchellh/cli"
)

func main()  {

quiver

Sometimes you want to retrieve EC2 insntances' region information.

You can query that information through instance metadata(169.254.169.254).

$ curl --silent http://169.254.169.254/latest/dynamic/instance-identity/document
{
  "privateIp" : "172.31.2.15",
  "instanceId" : "i-12341ee8",
  "billingProducts" : null,
 "instanceType" : "t2.small",