Short foreword:
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Foreword:
This post is quite tech-heavy and may not be for everyone. If you enjoy such stuff though, there will be more posts of this kind all of which will be tagged “ImplDetails”. There will also be posts with pictures nice to look at or stories nice to read at when production progresses to a point where such things matter more. Don’t forget to subscribe, follow, like or do all of that if you don’t want to miss a thing.
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In my game “Gas Water Dirt BOOM” (name subject to change) currently in development as in many computer programs data has to be serialized in order to be stored. You know, like in take a graph of objects and make a line of bytes out of them which is sufficient to reproduce an equivalent graph of objects out of it. There are common readily available solutions to that problem of which I decided to use none and brew my own instead. Let me point out why and how.