So my project is in Monogame and I'm trying to build an Entity-Component-System for it. I have a base class "Component" that each entity has an array of. Components essentially only contain data and not behavior in them. I have these Systems that then apply the behavior of certain components. I'd like to have the user of my game engine, "Chuggengine" be able to create a class derived from "System" and then be able to describe how the system works. I need said Systems Initialized when the game starts. I cou...

​So I've been investigating different serialization solutions as I want to be able to take advantage of C# inheritance as part of my game engine named, "Chuggine" that uses Monogame as it's framework. C# built in JSON serializer doesn't support inherientence. At least reading your classes back in doesn't pull in the derived properties correctly. JSON.Net doesn't support this feature as far as I could tell either... So I wrote my own one! It's working now but it does lack a couple features I'd still like...

Currently I'm working on writing out and reading in JSON information for my game. However I've found most tools don't have a way to support Inheritance in JSON Serialization. So I'm looking into doing the job manually.

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