Write a tool to export empires.dat structures in JSON format

[phrohdoh]

The resulting JSON can easily be manipulated and searched via jq.

[phrohdoh]

There is currently a WIP branch wip-gh18-empiresdb-to-json and a gist with usage instructions and details.

[phrohdoh]

Eventually I'd like to post this to Age of Empires Heaven which will, hopefully, elicit critiques and suggestions from modders instead of me endlessly dreaming up possible uses.

[heinezen]

Hey, if you want you, can use the work done in our converter from openage. Maybe we could work together on that? I think we have the same problem to solve 😄

[phrohdoh]

Hey, thanks for the link @heinezen!

I actually already have dat->json done (with a few papercuts here and there).

That being said I am of course all for collaboration and knowledge sharing!

I will make an effort to join sfttech on IRC in the near future to discuss this. :)

[heinezen]

@Phrohdoh Great to hear!

Yeah, I think our projects could complement each other quite well :)