Choose a format for game input

[jbheard]

We want to develop an easy format for people without coding experience to use.

Ideally a user can pass a folder to our program and it will create a text adventure on that.

Things to consider:

• Inventory size
• Starting inventory
• Equipment slots
• User stats (health, mana, etc)
• How to go from one place to another
  • Each page in different file
  • Put multiple things in one file, option to link to other files

[jbheard]

Currently we are using YAML for game inputs. However, yaml is not great for multi-line text and long paragraphs, despite supporting it.
JSON is another good format we could consider, but it is more technical; yaml was created with a focus on being readable.
A custom format could work for us, but we would need to define something rather clever, as well as write our own readers/writers for the file type.