XML is the de facto standard for game data, at least for intermediate data. Just about every programming language commonly in use has robust libraries for reading, writing and manipulating XML data. There are also some interesting general purpose tools for XML that not many people know very well such as XSLT (which I’ve discussed [...]
I was recently invited to do a talk at Game Forum Germany, and the talk I gave was called “Data Driven Is Half the Battle.” I’ve made the slides available on my website if you would like to take a look. The purpose of the talk was to show that just making game systems data [...]
11.11Implementing Undo
One of the most basic of usability features, undo/redo is also fairly straightforward to implement. Most engineers will tell you that undo functionality needs to be planned for from the beginning of a project. So why is it still just an afterthought for most game development tools? We recently had to implement an undo solution [...]