ScummVM for new comercial Adventures

[The_Master]

I'm Interested to use Scumm (scummvm) for a new Adventure

1. Is this okey with the license?
2. Where I can find the scumm syntax and commands ?
or a "how to do"

(I dont want to write a own "scumm")

[trin]

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck would chuck wood?

[joachimeberhard]

@trin:

At least you could have wrote something original, now couldn't you?

@The_Master:

Read this:

http://www.scummvm.org/faq.php#AEN73

Best regards!

Joachim

[sev]

I'm Interested to use Scumm (scummvm) for a new Adventure

It is not clea what do you mean by this. SCUMM is a proprietary language and we don not offer any tools for creating the games, just playing already ready data.

1. Is this okey with the license?

According to GPL if you'll use ScummVM, you should leave your engine code open, though it says nothing about game data, and you may leave that closed.

2. Where I can find the scumm syntax and commands ?
or a "how to do"

We don't know. Actually there were some chunks of SCUMM code in David Fox talk at assembly'04, so you may take a look of that. THough there were some about 10 lines of code, not all syntax. We represent that in C-like sytax which is different from original BASIC-like language.

(I dont want to write a own "scumm")

Your best bet here would be AGS. For example, Fatman Adventures were commercial game, created on top of AGS, and later was freewared by the authors.

AGS has good advantages like closed data format, free development environment, strong and experienced community, etc.


Eugene