> >On 22 Feb, 14:42, David Damerell <damer...@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
> >wrote:
> >>If levels can only be altered trivially - opening doors, etc - and you're
> >>not going to be walking round a skyscraper with digging tools - random
> >>seed plus diffs might be an efficient way to store persistent levels.
> >Actually, the main space waster in the proposed savefile format is the
> >object list.

> Well, in 8-bit text adventures, things were always taking away dropped
> objects. Maybe something vacuums most or all or the boring bits of the
> stuff out a level when you leave it.
> --
> David Damerell <damer...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Distortion Field!
> Today is Leicesterday, February.