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12th June, 2004 at 20:07:10 -

Hello everyone. Here's an idea - Why don't all of us clickers get together and create our own fileformat. We can then create differant applications and games that use this format. Here are some examples of what I mean:

Webpage format - Create a language then make browsers with moosock.
Music format - Create our own music format, like a mod\it\midi.
Or create a format, then differant applications interperate the file differantly. For instance one program may interpet the file as level data, while another interpretes the file as a music file.

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12th June, 2004 at 21:12:22 -

Wow Andy, that's the stupidest thing I have ever heard.

 
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12th June, 2004 at 22:06:41 -

Ummmmmmmmmm, how bout .gam or .ccn ?,Oops it was already invented!

 
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13th June, 2004 at 06:19:33 -

i agree that sounds stupid

 
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13th June, 2004 at 07:02:31 -

The phrase "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" springs to mind.

 
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13th June, 2004 at 08:26:06 -

I'm not suggesting we replace any file formats, I just think it would be fun if we could share a file format. Think about it: ..... Wait it is a stupid idea. LoL.

 
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13th June, 2004 at 12:46:45 -

Actually, it's not. Almost all professional games have their own formats. About the only formats they share are the ones used for music, and art.(and maybe 3D models) Many games have their own map formats, save formats, etc.

I've thought about music formats, and discovered they lead to trouble.

 
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13th June, 2004 at 12:59:41 -

The standards in the industry are for Textures, 3d models, and sound formats to be of a standard type. It's usually the publisher who hold developers to these standard format, so should a dev studio close, most of their work was already completed in a standard format, so the publisher can pass those on to another dev team.

 
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16th July, 2004 at 15:14:52 -

Well yes, microsoft's directx has set some standards for this.
Like 3d data and maybe music, i don't know for use.
But you can always create your own engine and formats, many people in the gamebizz create their own tools for map and level design. Well music is getting standardized (not sure if that is a word) to 5.1 streams. And don't forget save files, those a re different for each game, mainly because each game needs to save different data and some are encrypted and others not.

 
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16th July, 2004 at 15:24:06 -

My app, Mutegibe, has it's own file format: *.mute

 
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16th July, 2004 at 15:46:04 -

*.mute? I fear 4 letter file format extensions, I think it stems from a childhood incident.

 
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16th July, 2004 at 18:43:32 -

What about .html? Most of the web must scare you.

The only custom formats anyone usually makes is the save format of a game or app. Because every game or app needs to save different things, the formats are always different, so it would be silly to try and standardise a save format.

 
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16th July, 2004 at 23:36:55 -

Don't forget .shtml, or .aspx.

I think it's a good idea, but implenting it...*shudder* not only that but it'll lock ppl out who don't have the rite apps from viewing those things.

 
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26th July, 2004 at 06:48:24 -

Explain CK4R1??? I don t get you. Implementing it would be easy. if everyone has the same save format, the format for saving this file would have lots and lots of groups but you use the one your game needs. such as theres a group for platformer, application etc. just set group to the game type and away you go.

what do u mean by locking people out who dont have the right apps? its not like we are going to have an application that is the only thing u can use to open the save file and look at it. wait do u mean music or something??????? cause you can open the saving file one in notepad easy

 
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26th July, 2004 at 07:38:16 -

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26th July, 2004 at 07:41:42 -

oh and andy your idea is cool but wouldn't the servers just read the web language thingy as a regular downloadable file?

 
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