Comment by mrguyorama

Video games are made by a lot of non-programmers who will be much more comfortable adjusting values in a text file than they are hex editing something.

Besides, the complaint about not having a heavyweight parser here is weird. This is supposed to be "trusted data", you shouldn't have to treat the file as a threat, so a single line sscanf that's just dumping parsed csv attributes into memory is pretty great IMO.

Definitely initialize variables when it comes to C though.