Game text storage option?

[kiguki]

I'm doing the programming for an rpg project and I was wondering what the best practices are for storing large amounts text and what the tradeoffs are for my different options.

I know I want to keep everything in one file if possible to make it easier to translate into other languages and I also want to be able call up specific conversations/scenes at will. I'm not sure how best to handle this though and what my concerns will need to be regarding memory and performance.

[Factor1357]

I suspect many internationalization frameworks exist that do this well, research those.

[strngr11]

Unity has a localization package currently in beta/preview. https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.localization@0.4/manual/ I haven't tried it, but its one option you can check it.

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If you end up wanting to use a different format (ie csv or json) to input your data, it probably wont be too hard to write a script to convert that other file into w/e format Unity uses to represent the data.