What kind of data file do games use?
Excel, ORACLE, txt…
I want to hear YOUR opinion and experience.
Because I’m not used to data files, I’ll be using txt whether it’s standard or not for now. I want to know what data file is the standard one.
You know, I saw txt files in crysis for recording stuff.
and is there any reference or hint about using data file?
//Just curious
Also, what about risk of being hacked? Is txt file easier to be hacked?
Hi!
I think there are many solutions depending on what you mean with “data file”.
For example, if I need to store user preferences for sound and difficulty in my games, I usually go with NSUserDefault with iOS games which is native and reccomended, and cocos supports this as well 
This is howerver restricted and limited if you need complex data structures. For these, I’d go with a .xml or .plist or .json file. I don’t know many differences between these, except that maybe .json are smaller and more used w.r.t plist.
Regarding the “hacking” issue, unless you encrypt your files, I think there is no difference in which format you use: every file is equally easy to hack, since they are ‘just’ plain text files, no matter what.
Hope this helps
I always use default reference or plist if some data need used in IOS.
and, to avoid cracked, write checksum which generated with MD5 key in data file is better.