Heitor Salazar Baldelli Pickachu

CUSTOM GAME ENGINES: A Small Study

WARNING: Article moved to separate repo to allow users contributions: https://github.com/raysan5/custom_game_engines

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](https:

	# File: jquery.transliterate.coffee
	# Author: Marco Martins \| https://github.com/skarface
	# Version: 1.0
	# Info:
	# Prototype based on Backbone.Paginator plugin that will replace diacritic characters with the closest-looking characters
	# Credits: https://github.com/backbone-paginator/backbone.paginator/blob/master/plugins/diacritic.js
	#
	# Usage: String.transliterate()
	# e.g 'Jérôme'.transliterate() => Jerome

	//usage
	withAdvice.call(targetObject);

	//mixin augments target object with around, before and after methods
	//method is the base method, advice is the augmenting function
	withAdvice: function() {
	['before', 'after', 'around'].forEach(function(m) {
	this[m] = function(method, advice) {
	if (typeof this[method] == 'function') {
	return this[method] = fn[m](this[method], advice);

	var p1 = {
	x: 20,
	y: 20
	};

	var p2 = {
	x: 40,
	y: 40
	};