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raysan5 / custom_game_engines_small_study.md
Last active May 2, 2024 12:25
A small state-of-the-art study on custom engines

CUSTOM GAME ENGINES: A Small Study

a_plague_tale

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

@myusuf3
myusuf3 / delete_git_submodule.md
Created November 3, 2014 17:36
How effectively delete a git submodule.

To remove a submodule you need to:

  • Delete the relevant section from the .gitmodules file.
  • Stage the .gitmodules changes git add .gitmodules
  • Delete the relevant section from .git/config.
  • Run git rm --cached path_to_submodule (no trailing slash).
  • Run rm -rf .git/modules/path_to_submodule (no trailing slash).
  • Commit git commit -m "Removed submodule "
  • Delete the now untracked submodule files rm -rf path_to_submodule
@cryzed
cryzed / fix-infinality.md
Last active April 30, 2024 22:01
A set of instructions on how to fix the harfbuzz + Infinality issue and restoring good-looking, Infinality-like font rendering.

Disclaimer: Please follow this guide being aware of the fact that I'm not an expert regarding the things outlined below, however I made my best attempt. A few people in IRC confirmed it worked for them and the results looked acceptable.

Attention: After following all the steps run gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders --update-cache as root, this prevents various gdk-related bugs that have been reported in the last few hours. Symptoms are varied, and for Cinnamon the DE fails to start entirely while for XFCE the icon theme seemingly can't be changed anymore etc.

Check the gist's comments for any further tips and instructions, especially if you are running into problems!

Screenshots

Results after following the guide as of 11.01.2017 13:08:

@willurd
willurd / web-servers.md
Last active April 28, 2024 21:38
Big list of http static server one-liners

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
@mattiaslundberg
mattiaslundberg / arch-linux-install
Last active March 29, 2024 08:38
Minimal instructions for installing arch linux on an UEFI system with full system encryption using dm-crypt and luks
# Install ARCH Linux with encrypted file-system and UEFI
# The official installation guide (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_Guide) contains a more verbose description.
# Download the archiso image from https://www.archlinux.org/
# Copy to a usb-drive
dd if=archlinux.img of=/dev/sdX bs=16M && sync # on linux
# Boot from the usb. If the usb fails to boot, make sure that secure boot is disabled in the BIOS configuration.
# Set swedish keymap
@debasishg
debasishg / gist:8172796
Last active March 15, 2024 15:05
A collection of links for streaming algorithms and data structures

General Background and Overview

  1. Probabilistic Data Structures for Web Analytics and Data Mining : A great overview of the space of probabilistic data structures and how they are used in approximation algorithm implementation.
  2. Models and Issues in Data Stream Systems
  3. Philippe Flajolet’s contribution to streaming algorithms : A presentation by Jérémie Lumbroso that visits some of the hostorical perspectives and how it all began with Flajolet
  4. Approximate Frequency Counts over Data Streams by Gurmeet Singh Manku & Rajeev Motwani : One of the early papers on the subject.
  5. [Methods for Finding Frequent Items in Data Streams](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.187.9800&rep=rep1&t
@tkrajina
tkrajina / unmarshal_interface.go
Last active January 30, 2024 05:46
Unmarshal JSON to specific interface implementation
package main
import (
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"reflect"
)
type Something interface{}
@BastienClement
BastienClement / gist:b34f14dd93381498a7a1
Created June 17, 2014 17:20
The CASC (Content Addressable Storage Container) Filesystem
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| The CASC (Content Addressable Storage Container) Filesystem |
| Warlords of Draenor Alpha, Build 6.0.1.18125 |
| Written April 14th, 2014 by Caali |
| Version 1.2 |
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Distribution and reproduction of this specification are allowed without
limitation, as long as it is not altered. Quotation in other works is
freely allowed, as long as the source and author of the quote are stated.
@ssp
ssp / git-extract-file.markdown
Created January 23, 2012 13:21
Extract a single file from a git repository

How to extract a single file with its history from a git repository

These steps show two less common interactions with git to extract a single file which is inside a subfolder from a git repository. These steps essentially reduce the repository to just the desired files and should performed on a copy of the original repository (1.).

First the repository is reduced to just the subfolder containing the files in question using git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter (2.) which is a useful step by itself if just a subfolder needs to be extracted. This step moves the desired files to the top level of the repository.

Finally all remaining files are listed using git ls, the files to keep are removed from that using grep -v and the resulting list is passed to git rm which is invoked by git filter-branch --index-filter (3.). A bit convoluted but it does the trick.

1. copy the repository to extract the file from and go to the desired branch

@h12w
h12w / goclean.sh
Last active August 24, 2021 03:13
golcean.sh does automatic checking on a Go package and its sub-packages.
#!/bin/bash
# The script does automatic checking on a Go package and its sub-packages, including:
# 1. gofmt (http://golang.org/cmd/gofmt/)
# 2. goimports (https://github.com/bradfitz/goimports)
# 3. golint (https://github.com/golang/lint)
# 4. go vet (http://golang.org/cmd/vet)
# 5. race detector (http://blog.golang.org/race-detector)
# 6. test coverage (http://blog.golang.org/cover)
set -e