Earlier this year, I had to figure out how I was going to load level data into Magicore Anomala. A level contains backgrounds, sprites, animations, dialogue scripts, and much more. Ideally, I want to pack all of these things into a single file, so that I can deal with the filesystem and file names as little as possible. I did some cursory searching on tools or frameworks that make it easy to define and build custom file formats, but the stuff I found was a little too complex for my use case, ...
