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Re:The First Rule of Microsoft Excel: Don’t Tell Anyone You’... by pitay on Saturday October 06, 2018 @07:49AM (#18154649)
Text files or Excel for the game data?

Pardon my ignorance, but why aren't they using some sort of database for the data? Or at least storing the data in some sort of master database and exporting it to text files for the game to read? It would be lovely to hear the techniques and reasons from anyone in the know.

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Re:The First Rule of Microsoft Excel: Don’t Tell Anyone You’... by PhasmaFelis on Sunday October 07, 2018 @01:53AM (#18159039)
I don't know exactly, but I wrote a post about some hypothetical advantages here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18153661

(IIRC it's for convenience in development. I doubt the game ships with an embedded Excel file.)

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