[Scummvm-devel] Out of This World / Another World?

[James 'Ender' Brown]

I don't really have much to say about this that hasn't already been
said, but just for the hell of it:

> I don't understand whole hysteria about the matter, especially that
> some even non-developers say harsh words and give no reasons, just
> feelings. We all are mature persons here and we do everything in our
> free time with no force but our own intentions. So what's up?

Very true. However, I expect most of the "Whaattttttttt?!!!" replies are
simply because it wasn't discussed beforehand. Which leads to me..

> Another reason I didn't write to the devlist, is that prime goal of
> that letter should be (by Ender's words) to inform Fingolfin, but I
> sent him a letter and got a reply he already forwarded here. I was
> kind of satisfied.

"then post to -devel about it, mostly for Max's opinion" - true, but it
wasn't the only reason.

> Next thing I would rant about it is this "Another World is not even
> adventure". How is that? I'll cite random game descrption:

Indeed. AW/OTW is a recognised Action-Adventure, just as FT is. You'll
be hard pressed to find anybody familiar with the game who doesn't
consider it an adventure :)

> Some retired members even expressed an interesting idea (paraphrased):
> 'This is awful thing ScummVM now is. It should be split in
> SimonRenewed, BASSImproved, FreedFOTAQ, BestSAGA and
> NeoKyra. Otherwise I quit.' Excellent idea, so good that it worth door
> slamming.

Indeed. I'm as concerned about NEEDLESS bloat as the next guy, but new
functional engines really arn't.

> Two engine branches is another point. I'll cite cyx's words:
> 
>  <joostp> cyx: Further development from you will be on RAW and now
>           'AWE'? 
>  <cyx> joostp: for now, I plan to continue on my own as I already
>        explained to _sev
> 
> And here is what did he have in mind:
> 
> cyx> I am ok with the merge as long as I don't have to work on the OSystem
> cyx> port. With the little time I have, I prefer concentrating on the
> cyx> items I planned.
> cyx> 
> cyx> > (b) would you like to continue work in ScummVM. I.e. one day you just
> cyx> > will see all  your current work as ScummVM plugin, working as
> cyx> > expected. And then you may, or may not work on it. We do all dirty
> cyx> > work, and you continue RE'ing Another World.
> cyx> 
> cyx> As of now, I can't promise anything but yeah, of course, I am interested
> cyx> in all derivated work :)
> 
> I don't see two branches here at all.

Hmm, this does sound like two branches to me. The one thing I mentioned
to aquadran before he commited RAW was that if Cyx prefers to work on it
as an independant program, it shouldn't really go in. Cyx?

 - Ender