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A small state-of-the-art study on custom engines

CUSTOM GAME ENGINES: A Small Study

a_plague_tale

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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:

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narath / faraday_post.rb
Created May 8, 2017 17:24
How to do a x-www-form-urlencoded post with Faraday
require 'faraday'
require 'uri'
data = {
:your_data => "YOUR DATA"
}
url = "some url"
response = Faraday.post(url) do |req|