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Linking a game tells Tessera where your project is, so assets can be copied in with the format that engine prefers and the credits written for you.

#Linking one

Projects, then Link a game, and choose the folder. Tessera recognizes:

Unity, by ProjectSettings/ProjectVersion.txt. Assets land in Assets/ThirdParty by default, and Tessera notices whether the project has a glTF importer.
Godot, by project.godot. Assets land in assets/third_party.
Unreal, by its .uproject. Assets land in Content/ThirdParty.
Any folder, for anything else. Assets land in assets.

You can change the folder assets go into, and where the credits file is written, at any time.

#What a copy does

A real copy, not a link: the file is written into your project, so the project builds on a computer that has never heard of Tessera.
The right format: Unity gets glTF when it can import it and FBX when it cannot; Godot gets glTF; Unreal gets FBX. Images are copied in a format the engine reads.
Everything it needs: textures, materials and other files a model depends on come with it.
The credits: CREDITS.md is rewritten from the record, with the packs that ask for credit first and the rest listed as thanks.

#What is written where

In your game: the files themselves, the credits file, and .tessera/manifest.json, a record of every asset copied, which pack it came from, its license, its credit line and when it arrived.
In Tessera: which games you have linked, where they are, and what each has taken.

#Keeping a game up to date

A game's page lists everything copied into it, grouped by pack. From there you can copy a pack again after it changed, remove assets you no longer use, or unlink the game entirely, which leaves your project exactly as it is and only forgets it here.