I've done some searching but couldn't find a topic that was quite what I wanted so I apologize if this has been asked multiple times.

I'm currently working on a 2D platformer game and am contemplating how to deal with loading levels. I'm using LibGDX as my framework. I was wondering what you guys prefer to do for handling this. I might like to add a level editor eventually so I was thinking about having a simple text file with the maps and different numbers representing different tiles, i.e.

0022200000
0000121000
0111012200
1110020010
0111210011
0120101010

Where 0, 1, and 2 represent different tile images. Then I could just load it in one level at a time. What are my other alternatives? How do you prefer loading levels? Thanks,

David

I mean with the example you gave, you could just use a .bmp file and represent red as 1 white as 0 and blue as 2.

I mean with the example you gave, you could just use a .bmp file and represent red as 1 white as 0 and blue as 2.

Why waste 54 bytes on a header? Just use raw data.

to save:

FILE * fileLevel;

fileLevel = fopen(NAME,"w");

fileLevel = fopen(NAME,"a");

for(int i = 0; i < LEVELHEIGHT; i++)

{

for(int j = 0; j < LEVELWIDTH; j++)

{

fputc((char)LEVELDATAARRAY[j],fileLevel);

}

}

fclose(fileLevel);

to open:

FILE * fileLevel;

fileLevel = fopen(NAME,"r");

for(int i = 0; i < LEVELHEIGHT; i++)

{

for(int j = 0; j < LEVELWIDTH; j++)

{

LEVELDATAARRAY[j] = fgetc(fileLevel);

}

}

fclose(fileLevel);

I mean with the example you gave, you could just use a .bmp file and represent red as 1 white as 0 and blue as 2.

Why waste 54 bytes on a header? Just use raw data.

to save:

FILE * fileLevel;

fileLevel = fopen(NAME,"w");

fileLevel = fopen(NAME,"a");

for(int i = 0; i < LEVELHEIGHT; i++)

{

for(int j = 0; j < LEVELWIDTH; j++)

{

fputc((char)LEVELDATAARRAY[j],fileLevel);

}

}

fclose(fileLevel);

to open:

FILE * fileLevel;

fileLevel = fopen(NAME,"r");

for(int i = 0; i < LEVELHEIGHT; i++)

{

for(int j = 0; j < LEVELWIDTH; j++)

{

LEVELDATAARRAY[j] = fgetc(fileLevel);

}

}

fclose(fileLevel);

Easier to modify, easy to visually see etc. Im ok with wasting 54bytes on a header file, when I have those added benefits!