[Scummvm-devel] working on a new engine (AESOP)

[James Lacey]

Matt,

As a newcomer, I don't want to reopen an old debate. Is the official
position of the project as a whole? If so, I can respect that. At this
point in development, it would not be hard for me to just make my code into
a standalone project.

I chose to do an engine for ScummVM because you guys have a lot of
infrastructure that it seemed to be a shame not to use. Much of what you
guys have written would be helpful for preserving other types of games. Has
there be any discussion or interest in creating a sister project for other
genres like RPGs?

Thanks,
James


On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 5:27 AM, Matthew Hoops <clone2727 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 2:55 PM, James Lacey <jamlacey at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I wanted to introduce myself and let everyone know that I am working on a
> > new engine for AESOP based games, namely Eye of the Beholder III and
> Dungeon
> > Hack. While the games are RPGs and not strictly adventure games, I
> figured
> > ScummVM is branching out a little now that Eye and Eye II are being
> > supported. I am working on this as a fun project in my spare time so
> > progress may be slow, but you can follow it at
> > github.com/penenin/scummvm.git.
> While I do wish you luck in implementing the engine, I do want to say
> right here (before you get involved too deeply), that I would be
> against the engine being accepted into ScummVM.
>
> Our discussion last year about this same topic of branching to RPG's
> was that we only accepted EOB 1/2 as subengines of the Kyra engine. We
> are still an adventure game targeted project.
>
> -Matt
>
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