Best way to save level data
Author
Hi,
The last few weeks I have been working on a side scrolling platform game. I am verry happy with the result I have at the moment. But I am not very happy with the way I save and load the level data for the different levels.
At the moment level data is saved in a textfile. In this file the first lines tell the size of the level and some other information. Then I have a table with komma sepperated integers that that represent the level data. So, it looks as something like this:
10 // width
5 // height
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,3,0,0,0,0,0,0,3,0,
0,3,0,0,0,1,0,0,3,0,
0,0,0,0,1,1,1,0,0,0,
1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
Well, I don''t think this is a very good way, or is it? Is there someone who can advise me a good solution? Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Hans.
By the way, if you would like to see the game, it can be found at http://www.pottum.nl/manzana/.
Sadly, your game doesn''t run. For like a split-second you can kinda see a window, but then it disappears and the game crashes.
Apart from the packfile idea - I don''t see any simpler way to easily store the data for your type of game
Author
Hi,
Thanks! I am gonna checkout what a packfile is, maby I can use it.
For that anonymous user, strange that it doesn''t run. Did you unpack the files including the subdirs? There should be 4 files in a dir called ''data''. These files are menu.dat, level1.dat, level2.dat, level3.dat and game.hs.
Hopefully this will help.
Regards,
Hans.
Thanks! I am gonna checkout what a packfile is, maby I can use it.
For that anonymous user, strange that it doesn''t run. Did you unpack the files including the subdirs? There should be 4 files in a dir called ''data''. These files are menu.dat, level1.dat, level2.dat, level3.dat and game.hs.
Hopefully this will help.
Regards,
Hans.
Hello,
You may want to have a look at Mappy, at http://www.tilemap.co.uk/mappy.php - it''s an editor for tile-based games, and has a library which you can use in allegro for drawing your map to screen.
Hope this helps
Pete
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You may want to have a look at Mappy, at http://www.tilemap.co.uk/mappy.php - it''s an editor for tile-based games, and has a library which you can use in allegro for drawing your map to screen.
Hope this helps
Pete
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Author
Ok, thanks, I also check out mappy!
But I also had another idea. Is it a good idea to just serialize a level object to a file and unserialize it when the level must be loaded. In that way a level editor could be made very easy because you only have to make an instance of a level object, set all the values and then serialize it to a file.
In the game the level can be loaded by unserializing the file.
Is this a good idea and is it easy in C++ to serialize and unserialize an object?
I hope someone has experience with this and can tell me more about it. Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Hans.
But I also had another idea. Is it a good idea to just serialize a level object to a file and unserialize it when the level must be loaded. In that way a level editor could be made very easy because you only have to make an instance of a level object, set all the values and then serialize it to a file.
In the game the level can be loaded by unserializing the file.
Is this a good idea and is it easy in C++ to serialize and unserialize an object?
I hope someone has experience with this and can tell me more about it. Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Hans.
I''m not sure if serialization is a good way to go for games so I won''t comment.
I did try out your game though and it worked perfectly. Keep up the good work!
I did try out your game though and it worked perfectly. Keep up the good work!
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