Re: [Super-tux-devel] File format

[Bill K. <nb...@so...>]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 07:33:43PM +0100, Ingo Ruhnke wrote:
> My biggest complains about the current format are basically that
> something like name=value looks a lot nicer then deriving the meaning
> of a value simply by its position and that there is a simple character
> to tile mapping, which limits the number of available tiles character
> pretty much (something like 80 when one wants to use just printable
> ASCII).

Heh, yeah, that's the way I often do it.  Sorry :^)

It's for a couple of reasons:

  1. I'm not usually interested in making a level editor for my games,
     so I just hand-code the levels using Emacs ;)

  2. My background is from the Atari 8-bit.  I would often just create
     a special character set ('font') which had the different shapes
     mapped to characters in the ATASCII character set, and then literally
     type them into my code or into a data file.

     Much like I did for BoboBot and SuperTux, except I'm limited to
     printable ASCII, rather than nearly 256 easily-typed and
     easily-printed ATASCII on the Atari ;)

-bill!