Request a game?

Bladeforce · Post by **Bladeforce** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 11:00 pm

Hello, May i request a game for this awesome format?
Dune

clem · Post by **clem** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 11:09 pm

Please read FAQ 2.3 first.

Wishbone · Post by **Wishbone** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 1:05 pm

clem wrote:Please read FAQ 2.3 first.

In all fairness though, they hardly do anything else these days. They ran out of Scumm games quite a while ago. All the recent additions have been non-Scumm games. I think the FAQ could use a little updating.

Post by **criezy** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 2:11 pm

And the description of the Junkyard forum contradict a bit the FAQ imho:
"If you're curious about whether we will support a game, post HERE not in General Discussion

"

But the question was asked in the wrong forum anyway.

john_doe · Post by **john_doe** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 6:23 pm

Still, usually no devs will work on a game by request. We'll work on games we like to work on. I wouldn't work on a game requested 1000 times if I personally didn't like it.

Post by **criezy** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 7:23 pm

john_doe wrote:Still, usually no devs will work on a game by request. We'll work on games we like to work on. I wouldn't work on a game requested 1000 times if I personally didn't like it.

Sure. I think most people can understand that (and this has been stated many times already in these forums).

There is a difference between requesting that a game be supported and asking if a game will be supported (or asking if the team is working on adding support for a given game). But most of the time I prefer to believe that posters misuse the word "request" because english in not their native language (as it is the case with many people on that forum).

ezekiel000 · Post by **ezekiel000** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 7:27 pm

Wishbone wrote:
clem wrote:Please read FAQ 2.3 first.
In all fairness though, they hardly do anything else these days. They ran out of Scumm games quite a while ago. All the recent additions have been non-Scumm games. I think the FAQ could use a little updating.

But adding new games in not all the devs do, there is the whole scummvm platform and back-ends there's also quite a few to the Humongous Entertainment scumm games and fm-towns games to work on.

But as john_doe said devs work on reverse engineering games they have an interest in as it takes a lot of free time and there's no point in wasting your free time on something you don't enjoy. The faq should really be up-dated though to reflect that they work on what they want to work on in relation to adding non-scumm games.

Note I'm not part of the ScummVM team so this is what I understand and I may be wrong.

Hakker · Post by **Hakker** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 10:25 am

All in all a request is never bad. It's a request nothing more. It can also bring up titles which could be forgotten.

fingolfin · Post by **fingolfin** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 7:38 pm

Forgotten? Forgotten for what purpose? If you want a list of all adventure games, you can always go to http://www.mobygames.com/ and search there, no?