Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️what?
Return of the Obra Dinn saves your game as .txt files
containing XML
which contain a date and a <data> element that's a base64 encoded string.
that sounds like binary with extra steps
Ankit Pati@foone It’s binary, you see.
Every data format out there is either binary (increasingly rare), or binary with (increasingly) extra steps.
None of these extra steps would exist if our ancestors just agreed on an endianness.