Existing DDL formats

Game dev

Projects with DDLs aimed at Game Development

Open Game Engine Exchange Specification

website http://opengex.org/

Open Data Description Language (OpenDDL)

• website http://openddl.org/

Insomniac DDL

• GDC slides https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wLmpeSQqHayYKwAIr2Of3LEvsVKIL1dd/view?usp=sharing
• website https://github.com/macton/DDLParser

SmSchema DDL

The Future of Scene Description on ‘God of War’

• GDC slides https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1026345/The-Future-of-Scene-Description
• notes http://www.productivityengineer.com/gdc2019-the-future-of-scene-description-on-god-of-war

Frostbite DDF

• GDC slides https://www.ea.com/frostbite/news/a-tale-of-three-data-schemas
• notes http://www.productivityengineer.com/tools-tutorial-day-a-tale-of-three-data-schemas

Non Game dev

Open Source Data Library

• website https://github.com/wc-duck/datalibrary

mojo

• website https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/mojo/README.md

protobuf

• website https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/

flatbuffer

• website https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/

thrift

• website https://thrift.apache.org/

messagepack

• website https://msgpack.org/index.html

avro

• website https://avro.apache.org/docs/current/

bond

• website https://microsoft.github.io/bond/manual/bond_cs.html

corba

• website https://condor.depaul.edu/elliott/513/projects-archive/DS420Winter99/nier/corba.htm
• misc http://www.drdobbs.com/web-development/xml-and-corba/184411105

giop

• website https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Inter-ORB_Protocol

sbe

• website https://github.com/real-logic/simple-binary-encoding/wiki/FIX-SBE-XML-Primer

GraphQL

• website https://graphql.org/learn/schema/