A collection of multi-purposed unity C# scripts assembled to fast forward the initial creation process of a game’s foundation. A summary of what is or could include are serialization management, visual programming assisters, and other extensions to the Unity UI.

• Features
  • DataSerializer
  • VisualStatement
  • GamePrefs

DataSerializer is a utility-like class that conveys runtime data into serializable containers.

The class uses two functions to serialize and deserialize. The serialization function determines what data gets cached into Dictionary pairings of names as keys and objects as values. Meanwhile, the deserialization function uses a cached Dictionary to overwrite a target's values.

Data is serialized into a dictionary by:
DataSerializer.SerializeIntoData(object, Dictionary<string, object>, SerialzierFlags)

and then deserialized from the dictionary by:
DataSerializer.DeserializeIntoInstance(object, Dictionary<string, object>, SerializerFlags)

Since this class only operates to transport information, the functionality of reading and writing runtime data is at the user's discretion. By default, MonoBehaviour and basic UnityEngine scripts have serializers; However, they can be overridden or extended by creating a CustomSerializer.

Quasi-excerpt, taken from the CustomSerializer for Unity's GameObject class

[CustomSerializer(typeof(UnityEngine.GameObject))]
public class GameObjectSerializer : IConvertibleData
{
    public Serialize(object, Dictionary<string, object>, SerializerFlags);
    public Deserialize(object, Dictionary<string, object>, SerializerFlags);
}

VisualStatements are editor-publicized if-statements.

When in the Editor, the field stores information from the target and retrieves its value later in runtime using System.Reflection.

Within the interior of a VisualStatement are multiple conditions, operands, and relational operators.

The conditional comparison in an if-statement:
if (value == value)
Is as follows when in a VisualStatement:
if (operand.GetValue() relationalOperator operand.GetValue())

If the condition is in the proper structure, then == and != relational operators are available to select.
If proper and both operands are of number type, then ==, !=, >, >=, <, and <=, relational operators are available to select.

The user could then return a boolean result of a VisualStatement by:

if (visualStatement.IsValid())
    if (visualStatement.GetResult())
    {	
        do code...
    }

GamePrefs are the visual alternative to Unity's PlayerPrefs.

While having the same capabilities of PlayerPrefs, GamePrefs display and modify persistent data within the UnityEditor.

And using GamePrefs as publicized fields allows direct reference to predetermined GamePrefs (Dynamic GamePrefs).