Gabriel Moreira gabrielmoreira

Terminal Flutter

For fun, I recreated a subset of Flutter that is sufficient to build a tiny Minesweeper application for the terminal.

Here is how it looks:

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|Minesweeper       3/12|
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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:

Bridging Native & React for iOS & Android

js -> native

native -> js

Better local require() paths for Node.js

Problem

When the directory structure of your Node.js application (not library!) has some depth, you end up with a lot of annoying relative paths in your require calls like:

const Article = require('../../../../app/models/article');

Those suck for maintenance and they're ugly.

	var amqp = require('amqp')
	, crypto = require('crypto')

	var TIMEOUT=2000; //time to wait for response in ms
	var CONTENT_TYPE='application/json';
	var CONTENT_ENCODING='utf-8';

	exports = module.exports = AmqpRpc;

	function AmqpRpc(connection){