Soap - ScriptableObject Architecture Pattern

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Tired of spaghetti code? 🍝

Soap offers low-code, intuitive solutions to common spaghetti code issues by letting you:

• Share variables across scenes and components
• Send and receive events in a simple but powerful manner
• Automatically bind UI and components to data
• Save key variables at runtime in one click

Makes game dev easier and enjoyable

Soap makes decoupling your code easy and seamless, enabling you to create complex systems like abilities, power ups, inventory and other gameplay features in a elegant, modular and reusable manner. Soap is still quite new, but has already been used in games like Big Boy Boxing, Anx Defense, Corrupted: Dawn of Havoc, Gym Class VR, multiple hit mobile games (10M+ downloads) and more.

Soap also comes with various quality of life features and efficient custom inspectors to improve your game dev experience.

Core Features

• Scriptable Variables — mutable or read-only, with one-click runtime saving
• Variable References — design-time flexibility
• Scriptable Events & Event Listeners
• Binding Components — reactive data binding for performance and iteration speed
• Scriptable Lists & Dictionaries — mutable or read-only (runtime)
• Runtime Variables & Injectors
• Scriptable Saves
• Scriptable Singletons
• Scriptable Enums
• Reference Tracking — scene and asset reference visibility
• Tags & Scriptable SubAssets — clean organization
• Soap Wizard — centralized management for all Soap assets
• Soap Type Creator — extend with your own types without code

Better, Faster, Stronger

• A highly performant ScriptableObject architecture, battle-tested in shipped games.
• Reduce wait time to enter play mode by 90%, by enabling the editor play mode option (compatible with Soap).
• Tested on the latest LTS Unity versions starting from 2019.4 on all platforms.
• Built and refined over 4+ years of shipping games, focusing on UX and practical features

Integrations

• Odin
• Fast script Reload / Hot Reload
• Playmaker
• Game Creator 2

Community

Do you have issues, found a bug, or have suggestions for improvement?

Soap has an active Discord community, so don't hesitate. A lot of recent features were suggested by users :).

Documentation 📃

We have a growing collection of Youtube Tutorials and resources to facilitate Soap learning curve. We even have a custom AI Bot trained on SOAP documentation!

Useful Links:

• Youtube Tutorials
• Soap User Guide
• Discord
• ChatGPT Bot
• The talk that started it all