[Scummvm-devel] Adding Frotz engine to ScummVM

Travis Howell kirben at optusnet.com.au
Sat Sep 5 08:21:25 CEST 2009


I strongly disagree with adding Frotz, especially since I have not read 
any advantages stated, for this game engine to merge with ScummVM.

This would be the first game engine that is solely text based, offering 
no point and click interface. With only limited graphics & sound 
included in the later games.

It would change ScummVM's focus from point and click adventure games, to 
any adventures games. Opening the ScummVM project, to incorporating the 
many different text based game engines around.

The Frotz project already offers wide support for many different 
platforms. I think the multi-platform support of ScummVM would actually 
be a disadvantage in this case, due to been designed for graphical 
adventure games. ScummVM would have higher requirements, compared to 
Frotz, which is designed solely for those games.




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