[Scummvm-devel] Fwd: Visual Novel engines - Would it be possible to find a solution?

[Arnaud Boutonné]

Hi team,

I receive regularly questions about Visual Novel games, which makes me
wonder if we couldn't find a way to work on them without including them in
the standard ScummVM binary.

There are several engines around for Visual Novel games: FGRE (NitroPlus
games), ANISE (Elf, Silky's), Nekoze (D.O., ZyX, CD Bros, Purple, Will,
Ilex), VileVN (a lot, and the lead dev was willing to change the licencing
to GPLv2 and join ScummVM to do the work 2 years ago), etc

As a matter of fact, most of these games are at least erotic, and most of
these games are japanese/korean only. Eugene explicitely refused the merge
in ScummVM so that our project remains reasonably clean (we have several
adult only games supported but none is really 18+ so far. Examples: Hopkins
FBI, Leisure Suit Larry, PDWT, Voyeur, Fascination)

I therefore wonder if we couldn't have an engine (or more) sitting in
master, but explicitely not included even in the night build. Or maybe have
two builds, a "mostly safe for work" one and a NSFW alternative so that we
can see if a change in common code breaks Something there.

I don't have a very clear idea of how we could work that out, but I clearly
see an Opportunity to attract more devs and users, so I felt like I had to
raise (again) the point and see if we may find Something that suits
everybody

Thanks in advance for your thoughts

Best regards,
Arnaud
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