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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:

How to setup Let's Encrypt for Nginx on Ubuntu 18.04 (including IPv6, HTTP/2 and A+ SLL rating)

Virtual hosts

Let's say you want to host domains first.com and second.com.

Create folders for their files:

What forces layout / reflow

All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.

Generally, all APIs that synchronously provide layout metrics will trigger forced reflow / layout. Read on for additional cases and details.

Element APIs

Getting box metrics

elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParent

	// Original shader by @bgolus, modified slightly by @alexanderameye for URP, modified slightly more
	// by @gravitonpunch for ECS/DOTS/HybridRenderer.
	// https://twitter.com/bgolus
	// https://medium.com/@bgolus/the-quest-for-very-wide-outlines-ba82ed442cd9
	// https://alexanderameye.github.io/
	// https://twitter.com/alexanderameye/status/1332286868222775298

	Shader "Hidden/Outline"
	{
	Properties

	#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 700
	#include <signal.h>
	#include <unistd.h>

	int main()
	{
	sigset_t set;
	int status;

	if (getpid() != 1) return 1;