Game Estate

Game Estate is an open-source, cross-platform solution for delivering game assets as a service.

Game Estate Benefits

• Portable (windows, apple, linux, mobile, intel, arm)
• Loads textures, models, animations, sounds, and levels
• Avaliable with streaming assets (cached)
• References assets with a uniform resource location (url)
• Loaders for Unreal and Unity
• Locates installed games
• Estate centric context
• Includes a desktop app to explore assets
• Includes a command line interface to export assets (list, unpack, shred)
• future: Usage tracking (think Spotify)
• future: Entitlement (think drm)

Context

Context

Location (find installed games)

First step is locating installed games
Location definition by platform. For instance windows usually uses registration entries.

Runtime (c++ vs .net)

dotnet runtime
Hosted manage for unreal or native

Uniform Resource Location (url)

TBD

Applications

Multiple applicates are included in GameEstate to make it easier to work with the game assets.

Context

Estate Context

Estates

Estates are the primary grouping mechanism for interacting with the asset services.

Platforms

Platforms provide the interface to each platform.