Am Freitag, 28. März 2008 11:44:41 schrieb Jim Farrand:

> ...  The
> complete game and monster state needs to be saved and reloaded,
> possibly between different versions of the program.

I would make my own format with a version number.
Maybe:
a complicated binary format,
a more text like format like json or yaml or xml *schockhorror*
or use a small db for storing, like sqlite.

you can also zip it for saving space...

 Michael