Mohawk & Scumm engines: Similarities or Differences?

HumongoRad · Post by **HumongoRad** » Wed Apr 02, 2014 6:43 pm

Are there any similarities or differences between the Scumm engine (which carries LucaArts & Humongous Entertaiment games) and the Mohawk engine (which carries Broderbund games like Living Books)?

clone2727 · Post by **clone2727** » Wed Apr 02, 2014 6:48 pm

This isn't really an answerable question. What about them do you want to know? They're designed by two different companies for two completely different purposes.

HumongoRad · Post by **HumongoRad** » Wed Apr 02, 2014 6:57 pm

clone2727 wrote:This isn't really an answerable question. What about them do you want to know? They're designed by two different companies for two completely different purposes.

I'm just wondering why the games that are from the "Mohawk" engine are brought to the "Scumm" virtual machine, I mean couldn't there be a MohawkVM?

md5 · Post by **md5** » Wed Apr 02, 2014 7:00 pm

HumongoRad wrote:
clone2727 wrote:This isn't really an answerable question. What about them do you want to know? They're designed by two different companies for two completely different purposes.
I'm just wondering why the games that are from the "Mohawk" engine are brought to the "Scumm" virtual machine, I mean couldn't there be a MohawkVM

Eh? ScummVM isn't only about the SCUMM engine anymore. A lot of other engines have been implemented, which are created by different companies (e.g. AGI and SCI by Sierra, AGOS by Adventuresoft, gob by Coktel Vision, kyra by Westwood etc). Mohawk is one of these engines.