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Text files or Excel for the game data? Pardon my ignorance, but why aren't they using some sort of database for the data? Or at least storing the data in some
by pitay 8y ago
Text files or Excel for the game data?
Pardon my ignorance, but why aren't they using some sort of database for the data? Or at least storing the data in some sort of master database and exporting it to text files for the game to read? It would be lovely to hear the techniques and reasons from anyone in the know.
- PhasmaFelis 8y agoI don't know exactly, but I wrote a post about some hypothetical advantages here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18153661 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18153661 (IIRC it's for convenience in development. I doubt the game ships with an embedded Excel file.)