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

[Alex Bevilacqua]

FYI, the vogons links to DEAESOP listed in the scummvm forums no longer
exist.  http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?t=20601 seems to have
collected all the information again though if you wanted to check it out.


On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Arnaud Boutonné <strangerke at scummvm.org>wrote:

> Hi James,
>
> The situation is still the same: only 2D point&click adventure game
> engines are merged, and, if some other games are using the same engine, the
> specific code required to make them run.
>
> There's also a scummvm-misc project that hosts some exotic things that
> doesn't fit. It hasn't been refreshed recently (afaik), but it's already
> some kind of unofficial sister project. You can do something similar, or
> use it and ask dreammaster to upgrade it (if he has time).
>
> I think the most important for the moment is to get something running:
> discussion about where to host it may come later. With EoB3 and Dungeon
> Hack supported, it won't rot.
>
> Best regards,
> Arnaud
>
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 2:30 PM, James Lacey <jamlacey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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