Aetheria-Economy VS MessagePack for C# (.NET, .NET Core, Unity, Xamarin)

The required driver script will be helpful in figuring out what it's doing. Happy spelunking!

We had a bit of a hiatus after it became clear that we'd never get a publisher deal since the game is open source, and we're now pivoting into a narrative-focused vertical slice "demo", which we're hoping we can use to grow an audience and crowdfund.

The license you purchase on the asset store to use those assets does not permit you to redistribute them. This means that you need to approach the creators individually and acquire special permission to include their asset in your repo, even if you're not relicensing it. Very few asset store devs will agree to this, I can tell you from experience.

Here's ours.

The game is open source, so if you're up to it you can check out the code for it in the meanwhile here. It's not exactly plug and play, though!

I'm using dual serialization for the heavily polymorphic data structures in my game - MessagePack with integer keys and union polymorphism for the wire format and local storage, and Json.NET with string keys and JsonKnownTypes polymorphism for debug output and long term persistence in RethinkDB. Here's what one of my simpler polymorphic data structures looks like. Lots of attributes but that's the price you pay I guess.

Our project could certainly use some more code hands on deck! There's 8 of us so far, and we're building a rogue-lite third person space shooter with a story centered around a time loop. Here's a trailer. Here's our Github (it's open source!). Here's our Discord. I'm PixelBro#3202 btw.

If you're using Unity I'd like to recommend my open source game as a potential study candidate. Here's the repo, trailer of the game and a pitch deck if you wanna know more.

By the way, Aetheria: Terminus is an open source project! You can find the code for the galaxy generation right here.

Meanwhile my whole studio is developing our (unique and amazing) game completely open source, and I'm still not worried in the slightest about IP theft. Anyone with the ability to comprehend our codebase has much better things to do than "steal" our ideas, and mechanics aren't copyrightable anyway.

Given it's a binary serialization framework, it should not be too difficult, because the domain is well-explored and numerous libraries exist in C# which address same goals that Fury does.

More popular/newer examples are https://github.com/Cysharp/MemoryPack (which is similar to Fury with its own spec, C#-code first schema), https://github.com/MessagePack-CSharp/MessagePack-CSharp or even gRPC / Protobuf tooling https://github.com/grpc/grpc-dotnet

With Unity/IL2CPP stuff: For general-purpose serialization libraries like JSON, you sometimes need to provide hints to make sure types are included: https://github.com/jilleJr/Newtonsoft.Json-for-Unity/wiki/Fi...

For schema serialization on known types, there are codegen tools (i.e. moc for MessagePack): https://github.com/neuecc/MessagePack-CSharp

MessagePack is migrating to Rosalyn code generators, so basically invisible codegen. Cysharp's newer serialization library, MessagePack, already uses this: https://github.com/Cysharp/MemoryPack

Thanks, I'm sure I'll need it, though I do have my own platform with serialization set up already that I'm hoping I can port relatively easily (It's backended with MessagePack C# which is a lovely serializer for Unity.)

In the Road map of features #119 for MessagePack-CSharp, they checked the box for:

Try MessagePack for serialization. It will help to reduce the size of the message and the time of serialization.

I mentioned JSON, but there are many formats that are much more efficient. I can mention FlatBuffers, MessagePack and ProtoBuf. These are the ones I've used myself, and personally I'm most comfortable with MessagePack and ProtoBuf. I don't think the performance would be an issue if you had to choose between these three, it's mostly the API that is different.

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