Game systems

Data access layer

The data access layer is responsible for providing Game Foundation-related game state data to the Game Foundation systems. This makes it easy for you to switch between no persistence, local persistence, and your own persistence, without changing how you use GameFoundation.

We provide ready-to-use implementations that match the most common cases:

• Use a MemoryDataLayer if you want to play from a clean slate each session (especially useful for testing). You can also get Game Foundation's raw data from it to serialize them however you want.
• Use a PersistenceDataLayer to save and load your progression on a local file.

You can also implement your own IDataAccessLayer if you have more specific requirements.

More info in this page.

Inventory

See the Inventory Manager page.

Wallet

See the Wallet Manager page.

Transaction

See the Transaction Manager page.

Analytics

This part is obsolete and will be heavily revamped in Game Foundation 0.5

This system lets you record game analytics without having to write code for data instrumentation, making it easy to analyze live game data to make data-informed decisions about your games. You can enable or disable both editor and runtime Analytics in the Game Foundation settings by adding or removing the Analytics Detail.