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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

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Create a new binary value in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout named Scancode Map

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]
"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,1d,00,3a,00,00,00,00,00

or use PowerShell (run as Admin)

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--- Animal.lua
--
-- A simple example of a base class usng the classes library.
--
-- @author PaulMoore
--
-- Copyright (C) 2011 by Strange Ideas Software
--
-- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
-- of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal

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using UnityEngine;
using UnityEditor;
using System.Collections;

public class PyramidGenerator : ScriptableWizard
{

    public int size = 4;
    public bool flat = true;

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// Drop into Assets/Editor, use "Tools/Regenerate asset GUIDs"

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;
using UnityEditor;

namespace UnityGuidRegenerator {
    public class UnityGuidRegeneratorMenu {

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using System.Collections;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using UnityEngine;
 using UnityEditor;
 
 public class FocusOnPivot : MonoBehaviour {
 
     [MenuItem("Edit/Focus on Selected Pivot %g")]
     static void Focus()
     {

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\msys2_shell]
@="Open MSYS2 here"
"Icon"="\"D:\\msys64\\msys2.ico\""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\msys2_shell\command]
@="D:\\msys64\\msys2_shell.cmd -mingw -here"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\msys2_shell]

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# Lines starting with # are comments

# Always extract audio
-x

# Do not copy the mtime
--no-mtime

# Use this proxy
--proxy 127.0.0.1:1080

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wordlist created from original 41G stash via:

grep -rohP '(?<=:).*$' | uniq > breachcompilation.txt

Then, compressed with:

7z a breachcompilation.txt.7z breachcompilation.txt

Size:

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using Unity.Collections;
using Unity.Collections.LowLevel.Unsafe;
using Unity.Mathematics;
using UnityEngine;

public class NativeMeshTest : MonoBehaviour
{
	private NativeArray<float3> vertexBuffer;
	private Vector3[] vertexArray;