Thanks for the ideas. I have a dream (it will never happen) of new games created in the original Lucas/Sierra style, with the original tiny file sizes. They would be fairly quick to create (no need for ground breaking cgi, and tools for this fixed format could be endlessly refined). Every electronic...

I feel that the possibility to increase the creation possibilities of SCUMMVM may dissapoint someone in the Game Industry Yes, I think this is probably the true underlying reason. ScummVM walks a tightrope of not offending the industry, and it works, so why rock the boat? I'm trying to develop some...

Just in case anyone was interested, OpenSludge should be on SourceForge any day now. Sludge already has some award winning Windows games under its belt. The first open source port is likely to be for the Mac. Happy New Year everyone.

Fair enough. I guess that answers my question. Thanks for all the feedback.

speaking of Sludge, someone has to make the editor multiplatform as well, otherwise you will lower attractiveness of this solution. Ah, but that's the beauty of it: the sprite editor and floor editor are very basic. Most of what Sludge does is through plain text files and of course the compiler. In...

No, this is not how it works. The scripts are (mostly) in the game data files, and are just ran by ScummVM. See also http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/About [edit] Let's see if I understand. Imagine if the Sludge game Out Of Order was added to the ScummVM list of games, then ScummVM would gain the ...

I don't quite understand what you mean by "the engine" I just mean the common aspects of ScummVM. Unless ScummVM is an unrelated collection of hundreds of programs (one per game per platform) then there must be a common way to do stuff. I wonder why this would be an benefit to ScummVM in ...

Thanks for the reply. Offhand I can think of several reasons why it might make sense for ScummVM to include game creation abilities. 1. It might make it easier to port new games across. If I understand correctly, every time you support another old game, the engine has to become even more complex, wi...

Would the ScummVM community be interested in a proven adventure game creation tool becoming open source? This is my first post, so forgive me if I misunderstand the situation. According to a recent thread on the AGS forums , some people here on ScummVM were hoping that AGS could become open source, ...