Sanitarium Engine - All help is welcome

Jorpho · Post by **Jorpho** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 10:28 pm

Is this the same engine used by Chronomaster?

md5 · Post by **md5** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 5:00 am

Jorpho wrote:Is this the same engine used by Chronomaster?

Too early to say. Having looked at Chronomaster, the container format seems to be the same as the one used in Sanitarium. But the contained files themselves are different (e.g. as a first observation, Chronomaster doesn't use WAVE files like Sanitarium does). Also, Chronomaster uses its own format for videos (some files with the extension "dfa", some more info here: http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=DFA).
Sanitarium uses Smacker movies

alexfont · Post by **alexfont** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 5:34 pm

Sanitarium engine was build from scratch but used previous Dreamforge product sources. So in some way it must be similar to Chronomaster as well but not the entire engine.

john_doe · Post by **john_doe** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 6:13 pm

From my "investigations" into Chronomaster and Sanitarium they don't seem to have much in common. Veil of Darkness and Sanitarium seem more similar.

md5 · Post by **md5** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 8:28 pm

john_doe wrote:From my "investigations" into Chronomaster and Sanitarium they don't seem to have much in common. Veil of Darkness and Sanitarium seem more similar.

Veil of Darkness? This wasn't made by the same company. Perhaps you're referring to Anvil of Dawn?

KuroShiro · Post by **KuroShiro** » Sun Jun 14, 2009 3:07 am

md5 wrote:
john_doe wrote:From my "investigations" into Chronomaster and Sanitarium they don't seem to have much in common. Veil of Darkness and Sanitarium seem more similar.
Veil of Darkness? This wasn't made by the same company. Perhaps you're referring to Anvil of Dawn?

Actually it was. Veil of Darkness was made by Event Horizon Software, which later changed its name to DreamForge Intertainment (see here).

md5 · Post by **md5** » Sun Jun 14, 2009 2:35 pm

KuroShiro wrote:
md5 wrote:
john_doe wrote:From my "investigations" into Chronomaster and Sanitarium they don't seem to have much in common. Veil of Darkness and Sanitarium seem more similar.
Veil of Darkness? This wasn't made by the same company. Perhaps you're referring to Anvil of Dawn?
Actually it was. Veil of Darkness was made by Event Horizon Software, which later changed its name to DreamForge Intertainment (see here).

Ah that explains a lot. Thanks

Deledrius · Post by **Deledrius** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 9:07 pm

This is great news. I started working on REing this back in January with the intent to hopefully add it as an engine to ScummVM. I loved this game back when I got it and it's a shame it's buggy or unplayable on modern systems.

I had started to make a bit of headway into some of the early bits, but got distracted by other projects. It's been nearly impossible finding any info on this game outside of that gamasutra article, so everything's been from scratch.

I'd love to help out with this in whatever way you need, just let me know.

md5 · Post by **md5** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 7:08 am

Deledrius wrote:This is great news. I started working on REing this back in January with the intent to hopefully add it as an engine to ScummVM. I loved this game back when I got it and it's a shame it's buggy or unplayable on modern systems.

I had started to make a bit of headway into some of the early bits, but got distracted by other projects. It's been nearly impossible finding any info on this game outside of that gamasutra article, so everything's been from scratch.

I'd love to help out with this in whatever way you need, just let me know.

Nice

any help is welcome. What bits did you work on?

alexfont · Post by **alexfont** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 9:37 pm

Lets revive this a bit.

There are some great updates under http://asylumengine.googlecode.com page.

Check it out for the last engine improvements.

Again, all help is welcome. So, if you think you can help us, just drop a message.

Longcat · Post by **Longcat** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 10:16 pm

Nice, that's freakin awesome progress!

Good luck on your continued implementation, I also love this game:)

saulob · Post by **saulob** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 11:06 am

Really Amazing

Keep it going, thanks.

skid · Post by **skid** » Sun Aug 09, 2009 6:07 pm

So how's it going alex?

Been following the progress since you moved the project to google code and have to say the progress up to this point is really impressive. It's good to see that there's quite a few people contributing.

Keep up the great work, guys.

maximus · Post by **maximus** » Sun Aug 09, 2009 11:37 pm

skid wrote:So how's it going alex?

Been following the progress since you moved the project to google code and have to say the progress up to this point is really impressive. It's good to see that there's quite a few people contributing.

Keep up the great work, guys.

It's always good to know there's interest in the project

I spoke with Alexandre, and I think we'll release a build once the first scene is completable so that people can try it out and we can get some feedback.

If you're interested in contributing though, just shoot one of us a PM

Crimsonskies · Post by **Crimsonskies** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 2:20 am

I've also been checking your progress almost everyday and it's great to see that you guys are still working on it, that doesn't happen often with these types of projects. Usually people give up halfway

. I know I already made a post in this topic a couple months ago but I just wanted you guys to know that I'm still excited for this to be completed, so don't give up!