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Clarified type of game & font format

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{{FormatInfo
| subcat = Game data files
| extensions = {{ext|ags}}, {{ext|exe}}
| magic = {{magic|CLIB\x1a}}
| reference impl = [https://github.com/adventuregamestudio/ags AGS GitHub repository]
| endianness = Little-endian
| developed by = Chris Jones
| released = 1997
}}

An Adventure Game Studio file contains game assets. The games can be played by the Adventure Game Studio player. The reference implementation has been open source since 2010.

Adventure Game Studio files start with {{magic|CLIB\x1a}}, possibly preceded by arbitrary data (this allows them to be embedded in EXE files). The file contains multiple uncompressed game data files, and a header indicating the locations & filenames of these files. The files can have any name, but some have special meaning:

* <code>game28.dta</code> or <code>ac2game.dta</code>: Global game data. Format is an arbitrary concatenation of binary data.
* <code>acsprset.spr</code>: Sprite file. Contains graphics data in compressed or uncompressed formats.
* <code>sprindex.dat</code>: Sprite index file. Helps locate graphics in <code>acsprset.spr</code>. Optional.
* <code>room*.crm</code>: Rooms.
* <code>agsfnt*.wfn</code>: [[WFN_(font_format)]] fonts.
* <code>agsfnt*.ttf</code>: [[OpenType]] fonts.

.dta and .crm files contain executable instructions in a "SCOM" format, which always starts with {{magic|SCOM}} and ends with {{magic|0xbeefcafe}} (little-endian).

== Software ==
* [https://github.com/adventuregamestudio/ags AGS]
* [https://github.com/rofl0r/agsutils agsutils]

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-An Adventure Game Studio file contains game assets. The games can be played by the Adventure Game Studio player. The reference implementation has been open source since 2010.
+An Adventure Game Studio file contains game assets for point-and-click adventure games. The games can be played by the Adventure Game Studio player. The reference implementation has been open source since 2010.
 Adventure Game Studio files start with {{magic|CLIB\x1a}}, possibly preceded by arbitrary data (this allows them to be embedded in EXE files). The file contains multiple uncompressed game data files, and a header indicating the locations & filenames of these files. The files can have any name, but some have special meaning:
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 * <code>sprindex.dat</code>: Sprite index file. Helps locate graphics in <code>acsprset.spr</code>. Optional.
 * <code>room*.crm</code>: Rooms.
-* <code>agsfnt*.wfn</code>: [[WFN_(font_format)]] fonts.
+* <code>agsfnt*.wfn</code>: [[WFN_(font_format)|CorelDraw WFN]] fonts.
 * <code>agsfnt*.ttf</code>: [[OpenType]] fonts.

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