Re: [GD-General] Game data editor

[Ola O. <ola...@gm...>]

Yes, I realize that was a bit unclear, that is indeed what I intended.

Using excel seems all very well, if all you want is data input. However I 
guess my direction is more along that of a data IDE, so if you want to view 
items in a 3D view, perhaps to visually connect items (trigger opens _that_ 
door). There is usually other things that you want to do with this IDE, for 
example we have a remote console, as well as a dialog box for running the 
data conversion tools. I don't suppose this kind of stuff can be achieved 
using excel or axcess?

Will have to have a look at what InfoPath might be, but it sounds like it 
will be, perhaps not overkill, but too much killing on the sides at least... 
im sure it will integrate with outlook (shudder).

So having seen this kind of system grow (often painfully) at a number of 
companies and projects now I was wondering if there are any useful 
middleware out there. I did get a pointer to 
http://www.fluxfoundry.com/fluxfoundry.html from a reply off-list, which 
seems like it could be that kind of thing, I've only had a very quick look 
at it yet though.

cheers
.ola
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jon Watte" <hp...@mi...>
To: <gam...@li...>
Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: [GD-General] Game data editor


> You are talking about building GUI tools for the data editing, right?
>
> I would suggest using a database tool of some sort (such as Access) if
> you need fancy forms. What we do is get away with Excel -- you can
> script and macro it to do all kinds of neat things (pop-ups, etc), and
> exporting to CSV is very simple in the end.
>
> There is also Microsoft InfoPath for workflow data capture and
> management, but I think that's overkill for this requirement.
>
> Cheers,
>
>          / h+
>
>
> Ola Olsson wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> It seems that every game I've worked on there is a lot of energy spent
>> on getting a GUI editor going for designers and others to handle the
>> input data of the game. Seeing as it is fairly similar stuff most of
>> the time I was wondering if there are any off-the-shelf products out
>> there that can do the job? Of course there are those that come with a
>> game engine, but I'm after stand alone tools or frameworks (unless the
>> tools associated with a given engine could be used in this way of 
>> course).
>>
>> Any pointers?
>>
>> cheers
>> .ola
>>
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