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> <br>> BTW, one thing that also bothers me a bit are engines that languish in <br>> a half-ready state. I wonder if any of cruise, igor, m4, made will <br>> ever see the light of day (= be completed) ?<br><br>I got some details on these:<br>- cruise: dreammaster has been working lately on it. I'm not sure how far he<br>wishes to work on it though<br>- made: this is practically complete. All four games supported by it (Return to<br>Zork, Leather Goddesses of Phobos 2, The Manhole and Rodney's Funscreen)<br>are in a very good state and completable. I don't know about the Manhole, as<br>it doesn't have any "ending" as far as I know (you just wonder around in it),<br>but Return to Zork and LGoP2 have been completable for some time now.<br>johndoe fixed some leftover issues, and the engine is practically complete.<br>However, since a new stable version of ScummVM will be released shortly,<br>the plan was to announce the engine as complete after the stable version is<br>released. There are some minor things left, which include screen shaking in<br>Return to Zork (used in one screen I think) and some music notes which<br>are not played in one screen in The Manhole, but that's it. You can also<br>check the TODO page for the engine in the wiki:<br>http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/MADE/TODO<br>- igor: I'm not sure about this, most of the game seems to be hardcoded.<br>Were we given the original source of the game, or is this all based on<br>dissassembly? I think that the demo works, but the game itself doesn't<br>(or only parts of it are working)<br>- m4: well... this is a sad tale, really. The m4/mads engine is very big,<br>complex and hardcoded, with various parts which are small engine on their<br>own, and are responsible for different parts of the games. For example,<br>there is a whole conversation subengine, with its own scripting system,<br>as well as a complex animation subengine, with another different and difficult<br>script system of its own (woodscript). There's also a complex GUI system,<br>for the menus in the games. We've reached a point where a lot of the game<br>resources read and parts of the engine are in good shape, but the game logic<br>is all hardcoded. I don't know if anyone will work on this, it seems that the<br>people who worked on this engine (myself included) have lost interest, due to<br>the overall complexity of the engine :(<br><br> Regards<br>Filippos<br><br /><hr />Windows Live™: E-mail. Chat. Share. Get more ways to connect. <a href='http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_allup_explore_022009' target='_new'>Check it out.</a></body>
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