Comments on: Assets as Text Files!

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:46:27 +0000

Cool can’t wait to see a tech demo (how about one for Christmas!)

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:00:09 +0000

Yeah, I did consider XML. But XML has quite a large overhead when you’re creating it, and relatively strict syntax requirements… if I was going to use an in-game editor to create the ’source’ assets then that would have probably been the way to go. As I am just whipping them up manually I can get away with less work. Also lots of the sources refer to ID’s defined in other sources (and in one of the game source files itself to refer to “built in” elements) which meant I needed a non-XML parsing component anyway.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:56:00 +0000

Hi Lawry, the game is looking like its shaping up nicely.
Have you considered XML for your format? It can be edited in a plain text format, is flexible, and most importantly its hierarchical. Also all the parsing code is done for you