Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️So I'm hacking on Family Feud for the Switch, and it turns out it stores all its questions in one two-megabyte JSON file.
with no linebreaks
it is (of course!) Unity
the file is 6mb if you run it through a json formatter.
So they saved 4mb! in this 2gb rom! that is probably compressed!
So they saved 4mb! in this 2gb rom! that is probably compressed!
the layout of the json is... weird. I think they're trying to do some basic manual compression?
There's string pools.
So there's primarily:
1. list of questions (each of these is a complex structure)
2. list of strings of questions
3. list of strings of answers (true or false or unseen)
4. list of names of audio files or "UNKNOWN"
1. list of questions (each of these is a complex structure)
2. list of strings of questions
3. list of strings of answers (true or false or unseen)
4. list of names of audio files or "UNKNOWN"
the last two are aligned.
So #4 is called "AnswerAudioCues" and goes:
[
"A_Cry",
"UNKNOWN",
"UNKNOWN",
"UNKNOWN",
"UNKNOWN",
"A_Howl",
"UNKNOWN",
"A_BreakDown",
...
and #3 is called "AnswerText" and goes:
[
"Cry",
"Sob",
"Get sad",
"Weep",
"Cries",
"Howl",
"Feel sad",
"Break down",
...
[
"Cry",
"Sob",
"Get sad",
"Weep",
"Cries",
"Howl",
"Feel sad",
"Break down",
...
See how it lines up? Cry, Howl, and Break Down are answers with matching audio files: So when they're selected, the game will play one of the audio files of the host reading them out.
okay so #1, "Questions".
Each structure here has an ID, TextIndexUS, Quality, Validity, ValidForOnline, Answers, and False Answers.
The ID just looks like "Q_00001". TextIndexUS indexes into the #2 string table, "QuestionText". Here it's 0, which matches up with:
"Name something you do after a fight with your partner."
"Name something you do after a fight with your partner."
Quality & Validity are integers of unknown use. (1 and 3, here)
ValidForOnline is a boolean (false, here).
ValidForOnline is a boolean (false, here).
answers is a list of objects. Each has a separate Id (named like "Q_00001_A01"), and TextIndexUS (indexing into AnswerText, here 0 or "Cry"), AudioIndexUS (indexing into AnswerAudioCues, here 0 or "A_Cry"), a points value (here 62), and then a VariantIndicesUS sub-list
VariantIndicesUS is the indexes of AnswerTexts that are alternate aliases or "Cry". Here it's 1-9, or:
"Sob",
"Get sad",
"Weep",
"Cries",
"Howl",
"Feel sad",
"Break down",
"Wail",
"Moan",
"Sob",
"Get sad",
"Weep",
"Cries",
"Howl",
"Feel sad",
"Break down",
"Wail",
"Moan",
FalseAnswers has the same sort of structure as Answers: Id, TextIndexUS, AudioIndexUS, VariantIndicesUS. all that's missing is the points (since you get no points for an invalid answer)
So I think this is juts here for the AI players: it lets them generate plausible incorrect answers.
for example, the first false answer is 45, with variants of 46-51.
That matches to "Call ex", with variants of:
"Call ex-boyfriend",
"Call ex-girlfriend",
"Call ex-husband",
"Call ex-wife",
"Call ex-partner",
"Message ex",
That matches to "Call ex", with variants of:
"Call ex-boyfriend",
"Call ex-girlfriend",
"Call ex-husband",
"Call ex-wife",
"Call ex-partner",
"Message ex",
it looks like the game ships with 1595 questions
although there are duplicates and near-duplicates
the game also contains a 3036-line file titled "swear_filter"
some items:
bloblos
bullet vibe
clover clamps
commie
cunillingus
dolcett (OKAY, WHO DATAMINED A VORE WIKI?)
flow
glazeddonut
gramps
hahal (?)
heterosexual
masterblaster
mcfagget
moist
mr hands (immortality for the horsefucker!)
octopussy (the only banned Bond movie)
paginate (what)
pile
plump
plug (no, not buttplug. just plug)
raging boner (boner is on the list separately, so I don't know why they needed to call this one out)
smeg (red dwarf: banned)
soviet
tainted love
yaoi
bloblos
bullet vibe
clover clamps
commie
cunillingus
dolcett (OKAY, WHO DATAMINED A VORE WIKI?)
flow
glazeddonut
gramps
hahal (?)
heterosexual
masterblaster
mcfagget
moist
mr hands (immortality for the horsefucker!)
octopussy (the only banned Bond movie)
paginate (what)
pile
plump
plug (no, not buttplug. just plug)
raging boner (boner is on the list separately, so I don't know why they needed to call this one out)
smeg (red dwarf: banned)
soviet
tainted love
yaoi
Hanneke