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+GameEngine and Editor
+by John Ryland
+Copyright (c) 2023
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+Binary format to describe data structures
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+Can convert from XML to binary
+Can convert from binary to XML
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+Can edit data in the given format using description data
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+this data is to form the Component types
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+A Component Type is a description of the layout of a fixed sized block of data
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+A Component instance is a fixed sized block of plain data associated with an entity
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+A level is a list of Entities, Component Types, Components and assets
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+Assets are typically files that contain data, such as mesh data, texture data, audio data.
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+A level will have an asset table that can map asset names to ids.
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+The level can then be baked where all the assets the level uses are combined in to a single file
+and the components can refer to the assets by id instead of name.
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+The level will also contain the binary/xml of the component type descriptions.
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+There will be both the editable level, and the baked level. The editable level will contain multiple files in a directory.
+The baked level will be a single file.
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