GameDemo Alternatives

GameDemo reviews and mentions

• Serialization for C# Games
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jun 2024

  All very good advice that I feel deeply. I think I fell into the honey trap some time ago, but I've made peace with that — the tools I'm making will probably do more good than any game I could finish making, at least for now.

  Jokes aside, though, I do try to dog-food my tooling as much as possible. I maintain a Godot/C# 3d platformer game demo with full state preservation/restoration (<https://github.com/chickensoft-games/GameDemo>) to demonstrate this.

  By the time I've finished writing tests and docs for a tool, I've usually identified and fixed a bunch of usability pain points and come up with a happy path for myself and other developers — even if it's not 100% perfect.

  I also have a bunch of unreleased game projects that spawned these projects, and even gave a talk on how this stuff came about (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLBkGoOP4RI&t=1705s>) a few months ago if that's of interest to you or anyone else.

  The requirements you mentioned in your comment cover selectively serializing state and decoupling saving/loading logic, and I could not agree more. While you can always abuse a serializer, I hope my demonstration in the game demo code shows how I've selectively saved only relevant pieces of game data and how they are decoupled and reconstructed across the scene tree.

• chickensoft-games/GameDemo: A fully tested, third-person 3D game built with Godot and C#. [Full Project, OSS]
  1 project | /r/GodotCSharp | 12 Nov 2023