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

[Arnaud Boutonné]

So in short you would suggest to never officially support them… I like the
idea :)

If it was the case, would you suggest to add the possibility to report bugs
for those games in our tracking tool? (that would be useful for
unofficially support them)

Best regards,
Arnaud



On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 11:53 AM Lothar Serra Mari <lserramari at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Arnaud,
>
> >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 understand that we maybe should not enable those engines in the release
> builds. In my opinion, including them in the nightly builds should be just
> fine, since it can be considered as SFW unless someone decides to actually
> play the games. There's nothing NSFW in the engines per se...
>
> With best regards,
> Lothar
>
>
>
> Am Di., 29. Jan. 2019 um 11:38 Uhr schrieb Arnaud Boutonné <
> strangerke at scummvm.org>:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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