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

paulscott

#!/bin/bash

# gives a changelog from the last build branch to the feature branch

currentBranch=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)
currentBranch=${currentBranch#"build/"}
buildBranch="build/${currentBranch}"

# if no args, $buildBranch..$currentBranch
# if one arg, $1..$currentBranch

paulscott

git branch -vv | grep ': gone]' | cut -f 3 -d ' ' | xargs -n1 git branch -d

andymatuschak

A composable pattern for pure state machines with effects

State machines are everywhere in interactive systems, but they're rarely defined clearly and explicitly. Given some big blob of code including implicit state machines, which transitions are possible and under what conditions? What effects take place on what transitions?

There are existing design patterns for state machines, but all the patterns I've seen complect side effects with the structure of the state machine itself. Instances of these patterns are difficult to test without mocking, and they end up with more dependencies. Worse, the classic patterns compose poorly: hierarchical state machines are typically not straightforward extensions. The functional programming world has solutions, but they don't transpose neatly enough to be broadly usable in mainstream languages.

Here I present a composable pattern for pure state machiness with effects,

flarik

if [ -f "${rvm_path}/scripts/rvm" ]; then

  source "${rvm_path}/scripts/rvm"

  if [ -f ".rvmrc" ]; then
    source ".rvmrc"
  elif [ -f ".ruby-version" ] && [ -f ".ruby-gemset" ]; then
    rvm use `cat .ruby-version`@`cat .ruby-gemset`
  elif [ -f ".ruby-version"  ]; then
    rvm use `cat .ruby-version`

timoxley

Terminology

• block/voxel/cube -> mostly interchangeable. The minecrafty blocks you see on the screen.
• chunk: is a piece of the world that contains voxels
• AABB: bounding volume
• voxeljs: not 100% consistent yet, 'voxel.js' also acceptable, but definitely not 'VoxelJS'.
• dims: short for 'dimensions'. Perhaps obvious to some.

Positions

jspahrsummers

Simple visual illustrations of how CGRectDivideWithPadding works.

Slicing from CGRectMinXEdge

  +-------+---------+------------>
e |       |         |
d | slice | padding | remainder…
g |       |         |
e |       |         |

davatron5000

Backstory: I decided to crowdsource static site generator recommendations, so the following are actual real world suggested-to-me results. I then took those and sorted them by language/server and, just for a decent relative metric, their Github Watcher count. If you want a heap of other projects (including other languages like Haskell and Python) Nanoc has the mother of all site generator lists. If you recommend another one, by all means add a comment.

Ruby

• Jekyll 5,676
• Octopress 2,696
• Middleman 685
• NestaCMS 664
• Statis 509
• Nanoc 355

panicsteve

Dear soon-to-be-former user,

We've got some fantastic news!  Well, it's great news for us anyway.  You, on 
the other hand, are fucked.

We've just been acquired by:

[ ] Facebook
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bebraw

IMPORTANT! Remember to check out the wiki page at https://github.com/bebraw/jswiki/wiki/Game-Engines for the most up to date version. There's also a "notes" column in the table but it simply does not fit there... Check out the raw version to see it.

This table contains primarily HTML5 based game engines and frameworks. You might also want to check out the [[Feature Matrix|Game-Engine-Feature-Matrix]], [[Game Resources]] and [[Scene Graphs]].

Name	Size (KB)	License	Type	Unit Tests	Docs	Repository	Notes
Akihabara	453	GPL2, MIT	Classic Repro	no	API	github	Intended for making classic arcade-style games in JS+HTML5
AllBinary Platform	Platform Dependent	AllBinary	2D/2.5D/3D	n