Form Use and Data Management for game design

Heya, I’ve been working on an Airtable base with the primary purpose of object design for game development - with a field that returns JSON for use in languages (of which I dabble with GameMaker Studio). 

There is surprisingly a lot of thought required for base design for such a purpose.

To answer your question - it sounds like you’d benefit from Airtables recent Interfaces feature - have you looked into them yet? They’ll allow you to browse and search your entered objects with relative ease. However, I have come up against search limitations within Interfaces, so not sure how much mileage you’ll get out of them.

It sounds like you’re looking for a smoother way to manage and update detailed unit data without losing formatting. Airtable can definitely help by letting you build a searchable form and cleaner editing view, especially for fields like long-form abilities. I’ve had similar issues with organizing game stats, and tools like the OSRS Damage Calculator have shown me how much easier structured inputs can make things. You might find that separating raw values from formatted text gives you more control over browsing and editing your units. Experimenting with linked records and custom views could give you exactly the workflow you need.