typedef vs using in C++: Type Aliases and Alias Templates
Two keywords, one difference that matters — and it is the one short explanations skip. Tested examples, captured errors, and when to use each.
Muhammad Saqib – Senior Software Engineer & Founder of MyCPlus
OGRE and OGRE-Next: the Rendering Engine That Isn’t a Game Engine
OGRE draws things. Physics, audio and gameplay are your problem — which is exactly why it shows up inside other people’s engines and in robotics. Here’s the OGRE 1.x versus OGRE-Next split, and which to pick.
MT Framework: Capcom’s Engine Before RE Engine — and the Games It Still Ships
Capcom turned down Unreal and built its own engine instead. Here’s every MT Framework version and what ran on it, why RE Engine replaced it, and why it was still shipping games in 2025.
Moai SDK: the Lua Game Engine Behind Broken Age, and Where It Stands Now
Moai gave indie studios a C++ core with Lua on top, and powered several notable games before development stopped. Here’s the verified status — including the date of the last commit — and the Lua engines to move to.
Lumberyard – Free Game Engine
Lumberyard is a free, cross-platform 3D game engine developed by Amazon Game Tech. It is based upon Crytek’s Cryengine. This AAA game engine is written in C++ and Lua. Lumberyard develops games for the PC, Mobiles and consoles i.e., Microsoft Windows, iOS, Android, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The most prominent feature of the engine is its integration with AWS (Amazon Web Services) and Twitch. Lumberyard is designed for performance, modularity, and productivity.
Char Array vs String in C and C++ — char[], char*, and std::string
Why writing to one of these two identical-looking declarations crashes, what array decay does to sizeof, and what std::string changes.
Include Guards in C and C++: #ifndef, #define and #pragma once
A guard stops a header being pasted in twice. It does not stop it being defined twice. Tested examples, captured errors, and the pragma once myths.
Top 10 Programming Books For Learning C++17
C++17 is the next level evolution in modern C++ programming. It was officially standardized in December 2017, giving the developers a wealth of new features to write better codes. Adopting C++17 is a much easier step as adopting C++11. C++17 contains a huge number of library features and valuable language that can support and change the way we do programming in C++.
id Tech Game Engines — Complete History from Doom to id Tech 8
id Tech built the FPS genre: Doom, Quake, and thirty years of Carmack-grade engineering, now at id Tech 8. Every version, every game, all in one place.
Leadwerks –An Easy way to build 3D Games
Leadwerks is a cross-platform, 3D game engine developed by Leadwerks Software to make 3D video game easy to develop. It is written in C++, C-Objective and Lua. It develops games for the platform of Microsoft windows and Linux. It is a proprietary engine. On March, 2019 its first stable version was released. Until now four versions of the engine have been released.
Jade Engine: the Ubisoft Engine Behind Beyond Good & Evil and the Sands of Time
Ubisoft Montpellier built Jade for one game and named it after its heroine. It ended up carrying the Prince of Persia reboot. Here’s every game verified on it — and why the Beyond Good & Evil sequel isn’t one.
IW Engine — The Game Engine Behind Call of Duty
The IW Engine has powered nearly every Call of Duty for two decades. Here’s how it evolved from id Tech 3 into the technology behind the franchise.