[Scummvm-devel] GSoC 2013 - Z-Engine: Introduction

[Willem Jan Palenstijn]

On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 01:06:00PM -0500, Adrian Astley wrote:
> Hello everyone!
> 
> My name is Adrian Astley. I am one of the extremely lucky students chosen
> for Google Summer of Code this year. I'm extremely excited to work with you
> guys both this summer and in the future. I'm going to be a fifth year
> student at The University of Texas at Austin studying Mechanical
> Engineering and Computer Science. I thoroughly enjoy coding and playing
> video games but I also have an artsy side to me. I sing in a college choir
> as well as doing musical theatre. I'm actually currently doing a summer
> production of Les Misérables at my local community theatre.
> 
> The project I'm working on is implementing Z-engine into the ScummVM set of
> engines. Z-engine is used for Zork Nemesis and Zork Grand Inquisitor. The
> official project is described in more detail here:
> https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2013/richiesams/23001
> 
> I also have a blog here: http://richiesams.blogspot.com/ in which I'll be
> sharing my progress.
> 
> Once again, I'm excited to be here, and I can't wait to launch in.

Welcome and congratulations!

I picked up these two games on this weekend's GOG.com sale just now, so am
ready to try them out :-)

-Willem Jan