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Messiah Engine

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by reviewing the repository's existing engine-detection rules and how archive extensions are matched. Use the linked SteamDB examples to compare Messiah Engine files with the unrelated MPK example; done means Messiah games are detected without treating unrelated MPK archives as matches.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

Type: Engine
Some reference to the engine, such as the developer site or a wikipedia article.

Messiah Engine (or just Messiah)

https://www.igdb.com/game_engines/messiah-engine
https://ir.netease.com/news-releases/news-release-details/netease-releases-diablor-immortaltm-china-ios-and-android-july

SteamDB links

https://steamdb.info/app/3199170/
https://steamdb.info/app/1933870/

Possible way to detect it

All games on this engine are using proprietary archives with "mpk" + "mpkinfo" extensions. In the same time, overall folders structure and folders names are similar to Unreal Engine, which may probably lead to false positive detection in some cases.

Update: Detecting only "mpk" (without "mpkinfo") is not enough, as there are some other games using this extension for their archives, which are not related to Messiah. For example: https://steamdb.info/app/738510/

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