The Dink Network

*shames anyway for neglecting tiles!*

I've tentatively rigged up a serialisation system using Serpent. In the final release, saving to disk will look something like:

mytable = {"A", "b", "C"}
dink.todisk(mytable, "mytable.dat")

Which will save the table alongside the usual savefiles to mytable.dat. Loading would be similarly accomplished by:

mytable = dink.fromdisk("mytable.dat")
-- Say A
player ay(mytable[1])

Unlike the inbuilt save/load it doesn't assume anything else, which means you could rig up your own savebot and continue scripts to account for both normal and Lua saves, and write a custom packer. Lua allows for nested tables which means in theory you could store almost whatever you wanted in the one file.