Agreed with everything above, one of the things I love about games is the really unique problems they tend to present. FWIW if you're looking at protobuf then

Agreed with everything above, one of the things I love about games is the really unique problems they tend to present. FWIW if you're looking at protobuf then take a peek at flatbuffers[1]. We found that protobuf's allocation was hurting perf and flatbuffers fit the same role with much better performance. [1] https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/ https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/