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

icecr4ck

IDAPython cheatsheet

Important links

• Porting IDAPython plugins to IDA 7.4
• Hex-Rays IDAPython official documentation

Basic commands

Get informations on the binary

Bktero

char (*__kaboom)[sizeof( xxx )] = 1;

// xxx can be a variable or a data type
// See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20979565/how-can-i-print-the-result-of-sizeof-at-compile-time-in-c

// Exemple of code:
//    char (*__kaboom)[sizeof( long long )] = 1;
// GCC error:
//    error: invalid conversion from 'int' to 'char (*)[8]' [-fpermissive]
// So sizeof(long long) == 8

jtbr

/** 
* @file   endianness.h
* @brief  Convert Endianness of shorts, longs, long longs, regardless of architecture/OS
*
* Defines (without pulling in platform-specific network include headers):
* bswap16, bswap32, bswap64, ntoh16, hton16, ntoh32 hton32, ntoh64, hton64
*
* Should support linux / macos / solaris / windows.
* Supports GCC (on any platform, including embedded), MSVC2015, and clang,
* and should support intel, solaris, and ibm compilers as well.

john2x

Clojure Destructuring Tutorial and Cheat Sheet

(Related blog post)

Simply put, destructuring in Clojure is a way extract values from a datastructure and bind them to symbols, without having to explicitly traverse the datstructure. It allows for elegant and concise Clojure code.

Vectors and Sequences

aras-p

// Just before switching jobs:
// Add one of these.
// Preferably into the same commit where you do a large merge.
//
// This started as a tweet with a joke of "C++ pro-tip: #define private public",
// and then it quickly escalated into more and more evil suggestions.
// I've tried to capture interesting suggestions here.
//
// Contributors: @r2d2rigo, @joeldevahl, @msinilo, @_Humus_,
// @YuriyODonnell, @rygorous, @cmuratori, @mike_acton, @grumpygiant,

tcr

if (!Object.__proto__) {
  var sandbox = function () {
    // create an <iframe>
    var iframe = document.createElement("iframe");
    iframe.style.display = "none";
    document.documentElement.appendChild(iframe);
    return frames[frames.length - 1];
  }

  var iframe = sandbox();

avalonalex

#!/usr/bin/env python

import argparse
import copy
import math
import pickle
import random
from itertools import combinations