[MUD-Dev] Re: Standard Mud Room Format?

[Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt]

On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, plateau wrote:

> Hello all,

I assume your writing a location-based game. And your terminology
indicates (as others have pointed out) affinity for DikuMud type
games :-). Remember that your design of database format probably will
dictate the organisation of your game. Choose with care! :-)

> Okay, so I guess the format wouldn't encompass too much detail, but=20
> still; has a "standard (global?) room format" already been done? Is it=20
> more popular to just write code to convert existing room formats (LPC,=20
> Tiny, Diku, etc) to your own format (so you could use those snazzy=20
> editors instead)? Or is it a complete waste of time?

I haven't heard of any 'standard' format for databases supporting
location-based game styles. If you want something easy parsable, and easy
writable, perhaps you should build on some XML formatted type of database=
,
since it probably will be soaked up into the 'net eventually. Besides the=
n
people will have a background for using it, with GUI or not (from HTML).=20

Just write code to convert existing code. Thats my advice :-)

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