Experience SDK Features and Limitations

The Experience SDK has some great features using Unity but there are also some limitations to keep in mind when developing Experiences.

Features

The Experience SDK offers three core frameworks that allows for developers to create interesting Experiences:

1. Avatar framework to load a user's Genies Avatar and place it into a game environment.
2. Traits framework to read a user's Traits and change their values based on user action.
3. Multiplayer framework to enable social play for users.

In addition, we've integrated additional Unity features, as well as some of our own:

• MegaStylizer Shader
• Character Controllers
• Cinemachine
• Cloud Save
• DoTween

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To see what packages and tools are currently integrated, you can check the Unity Package Manager window.

Limitations

The Experiences made by Genies Dev Kit will be launched on the 7th Period app as a minigame. There are limitations when trying to host apps within a main app.

Here are notable limitations of the Genies Dev Kit:

• No custom C# scripts
• No custom HLSL and GLSL shaders, shader graphs are fine to use
• No custom dlls and assemblies
• Editing assemblies is disallowed
• Limited use of Tags, Layers, and Sorting Layers
• Certain Unity APIs are blacklisted

TypeScript

A big restriction is there can be no dynamic-loading code in Experiences. This means that custom shaders and C# scripts are not allowed when developing Genies Experiences.

A workaround is to use Genies Scripts which use the programming language called TypeScript to create logic for Experiences.

Read the TypeScript page for more information.