--- title: Modernizing a Live Game: The Best Fiends Engine... description: Best Fiends underwent a complete engine transformation to modernize their live game. The team rebuilt their matching engine as a deterministic, pure C#... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/modernizing-a-live-game-the-best-fiends-engine-transformation-suwswrcm7 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Modernizing a Live Game: The Best Fiends Engine Transformation | daily.dev og:description: Best Fiends underwent a complete engine transformation to modernize their live game. The team rebuilt their matching engine as a deterministic, pure C#... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/modernizing-a-live-game-the-best-fiends-engine-transformation-suwswrcm7 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/sUwsWRcm7.png og:image:alt: Modernizing a Live Game: The Best Fiends Engine Transformation og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Modernizing a Live Game: The Best Fiends Engine Transformation **[Unity](https://daily.dev/sources/unity)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Best Fiends underwent a complete engine transformation to modernize their live game. The team rebuilt their matching engine as a deterministic, pure C# ECS-like system decoupled from Unity's rendering layer, enabling reuse across components. They created a standalone level editor with WYSIWYG capabilities using Unity UI tools, allowing designers to work without touching the base game or version control. The project involved rebuilding 10,000 levels, implementing comprehensive unit testing with Unity Test Framework, and replacing baked-in levels with a cloud-based content delivery system for faster updates. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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