Choose a format for game input

LaurierCS / PHI-TextBasedGameEngine

A text based game engine for creating games

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Choose a format for game input #1

Open jbheard opened 4 years ago

jbheard commented 4 years ago

We want to develop an easy format for people without coding experience to use.

Ideally a user can pass a folder to our program and it will create a text adventure on that.

Things to consider:

Inventory size
Starting inventory
Equipment slots
User stats (health, mana, etc)
How to go from one place to another
- Each page in different file
- Put multiple things in one file, option to link to other files

jbheard commented 4 years ago

Currently we are using YAML for game inputs. However, yaml is not great for multi-line text and long paragraphs, despite supporting it. JSON is another good format we could consider, but it is more technical; yaml was created with a focus on being readable. A custom format could work for us, but we would need to define something rather clever, as well as write our own readers/writers for the file type.