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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

Updated 4/11/2018

Here's my experience of installing the NVIDIA CUDA kit 9.0 on a fresh install of Ubuntu Desktop 16.04.4 LTS.

General rules

Follow standard conventions.
Keep it simple stupid. Simpler is always better. Reduce complexity as much as possible.
Boy scout rule. Leave the campground cleaner than you found it.
Always find root cause. Always look for the root cause of a problem.

Design rules

System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

Clarify and agree on the scope of the system

User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
- Who is going to use it?
- How are they going to use it?

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

	# Description: Boxstarter Script
	# Author: Jess Frazelle <jess@linux.com>
	# Last Updated: 2017-09-11
	#
	# Install boxstarter:
	# . { iwr -useb http://boxstarter.org/bootstrapper.ps1 } \| iex; get-boxstarter -Force
	#
	# You might need to set: Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
	#
	# Run this boxstarter by calling the following from an elevated command-prompt:

	from datetime import datetime, timedelta
	import functools


	def timed_cache(**timedelta_kwargs):

	def _wrapper(f):
	update_delta = timedelta(**timedelta_kwargs)
	next_update = datetime.utcnow() + update_delta
	# Apply @lru_cache to f with no cache size limit

	import sys,os
	import curses

	def draw_menu(stdscr):
	k = 0
	cursor_x = 0
	cursor_y = 0

	# Clear and refresh the screen for a blank canvas
	stdscr.clear()

	"""
	Minimal character-level Vanilla RNN model. Written by Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy)
	BSD License
	"""
	import numpy as np

	# data I/O
	data = open('input.txt', 'r').read() # should be simple plain text file
	chars = list(set(data))
	data_size, vocab_size = len(data), len(chars)