If you need backgrounds, you could take them from Flight of the Amazon Queen, Beneath a Steel Sky or Lure of the Temptress - if I read the license correctly you can legally use parts of the games in your own projects as long as you don't claim you created these graphics yourself. I didn't know that...

Thanks for all the positive feedback. I've received a handful of emails so I'm encouraged that there is the potential in this.

I'll get the engine finished up and (hopefully!) get around to removing the MI2 graphics so I can properly showcase what the engine has to offer.

Could people please stop writing "PC" when they mean "Windows" (or "Windows PC")? Duly noted. Your interface certainly looks promising, just bear in mind that a game engine is quite a complex task. You can check how other such tools do this, like, for example Adventure...

Hi, I hope this post is allowed (apologies if not), as this is not about ScummVM per se but my own personal project. I'm developing a SCUMM-esque engine for adventure games using the XNA framework. Eventually I hope to release an indie game via the recently launched Xbox Live Community Games service...