Post #737138

I've seen a lot of game devs overthink how to make their data files backward compatible (save files, maps, mods etc) but it’s actually easy! In this #blog post I show you how, with realistic examples https://cxong.github.io/2026/01/easy-backward-compatibility The key is that these files are often simple, so adding extra translation code and using a simple versioning strategy is sufficient. If you’ve made versioned APIs before you knew this already, but if you’ve never done anything like this before, it’s worth a read! #GameDev