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The database.pak is a file which
contains all the levels of the game, with their author's name and solutions, you can't
add levels to this database but you can send me your levels and solutions (solutions
are in your Users\[name].rec file) so I can update the file and then propose it on the
Visual Sokoban website so everyone can download it.
If you wonder how the database.pak works it's quite easy, in the database.pak file, each line is a level. A ";" separates the level from its author name and finally its 2 solutions (optimised by moves / by pushes). The difficult part is the coding of the level before the first ";": it uses the ASCII sokoban level coding, so "#" is a wall, "@" is the character, "+" the character on a storage location, "$" are objects, "*" are objects on their storage locations, "." are storage locations and "!" shows the end of a line. If there's a letter in front of a symbol it means that this symbol is repeated 4 times if it's a D, 5 times if it's a E etc... so Visual Sokoban just unpacks the level and completes it before you see it on your screen. |