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When is a database not a database?

Regardless of the game characters and set design, a good Role Playing Game (RPG) is a collection of tables.

 

Let’s look at the tables that might come in a game. Each character would have a set of attributes or strengths. As the character goes along his mission, he would lose or acquire tools. The mission, itself, would have a table of maps and coordinates.

 

Say our character gains a new weapon, and his opponent loses strength. In a database, there would be an append query to add the weapon to our character’s table. Another query would delete some strength from the loser’s table.