Re: [pygame] Rookie - playable map

[Jan Ekholm <chakie@infa.abo.fi>]

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, SB wrote:

>> To create a simple "Risk" like map to send my hordes of armies around
>> on, what would you advice to be the best? Is there somekind of
>> "clickable" graphic-file to use or should I simply draw my rects in
>> pygame and label them with ID's at gamestart?
>>
>
>I would definetly recommend using some kind of external data format.  It
>will be much more flexible when you (or somebody else) wants to change
>your map.
>
>There are many ways to do this, such as a single graphic accompanied by
>a text file defining the boundaries of each country, or one graphic for
>each country with an offset in a text file, etc. etc.

SVG comes to mind as a nice format for vectorized data.

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