[Scummvm-devel] Hello there!

[Eugene Sandulenko]

Welcome, Adrian,

Your work on Tucker is exciting!


Eugene

On 1 February 2018 at 21:57, Adrian Frühwirth <scummvm-devel at bonki.net>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I was kindly invited to join the team so here comes the obligatory
> introduction mail :-)
>
> I'm not much of a gamer (not in the modern sense of the word anyway) but I
> basically grew up on point'n'click adventures in the goode olde days(tm)
> and believe that ScummVM is one of the best open source projects out there
> so, first of all, I would like to express my huge thanks to all of you,
> active and retired devs alike, who have put so much time and effort into
> making this truly incredible product.
>
> As a user, I have run ScummVM since the early days (probably around
> 2002-ish) and ported it to QNX in 2004-ish (if I recall correctly there
> used to be an official QNX Neutrino port later at some point but I see no
> mention of it in the wiki so either my memory serves me wrong or it's very
> dead).
> I recently picked up my copy of Bud Tucker and noticed some annoying bugs
> which I knew had already been present the last time I played the game in
> ScummVM years ago so I checked the bug tracker and learned that cyx had
> retired from the project long ago. Given the (non-)popularity of the game
> the engine has since been de facto unmaintained with less than a handful of
> commits during the last couple of years and quite a few reported (as well
> as unreported) bugs just sitting there waiting to be fixed, so I started
> with some low-hanging fruits.
> For now, I will continue working on TUCKER and try to fix all remaining
> bugs and refactor/document things to make the code more maintainable.
> I see that there are other engine bug reports/tickets which haven't gotten
> any attention for years and I would like to look into these as well
> eventually.
> The wiki is another area where I would like to contribute and if desired
> I'll also gladly help with infrastructure-related stuff.
>
> I'm very much looking forward to being a part of this family and getting
> to know as well as learn a lot from all of you.
> Thank you for having me and feel free to drop me (bonki) a message on IRC!
>
> -Adrian
>
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