Board Thread:Plants vs. Zombies 2/@comment-25546049-20150703183553/@comment-7234182-20150709195907

Brainulator9 wrote: I dunno about the seed packets, but I stated that the world-based seed packets can be found in the liveconfig.json file. ErnestoAM has something about it. :-)

Also, how come the json files are obfuscated messes in the game but not on the website?

Because there are no JSON files in the game. They are in RTON format, which isn't an "obfuscated mess," it just needs to be handled correctly.

JSON and RTON are serialization formats. One is text-based, well-documented, and easy to read. But as you can see, it's inefficient in storing data. RTON is a binary serialization format, and proprietary to PopCap, which means it's not documented at all. But it's much more compact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serialization