ScummVM

The votes for SourceForge.net's second annual Community Choice Awards are in. Check back for the results on July 30th.

We made the cut to the final ballot of SourceForge.net's second annual Community Choice Awards! Thanks a bunch to everybody who voted for us. Now the final ballot is waiting for your votes. ScummVM is in the running for best project for gamers and best project!!! Just go to the Community Choice Awards and cast your vote.

Finally, here it is! Our long awaited, best-ever new release, ScummVM 0.X.0 (or 0.10.0, for those roman numeral challenged amongst you), code named "Tic-tac-toe edition", has arrived today. Now available in stores, err, on download servers ... [More] worldwide! "What's new? What's in it? Can I open it up yet?" - Hah, I can already see you shifting impatiently on your seats. But before you run, let me shed some light on the details of this latest installment of the successful ScummVM series: Several new engines and thus new games supported: Sierra AGI engine: Space Quest I & II, King's Quest I-III and many more, including a vast number of fan-made games, Cinematique evo 1 engine: Future Wars, GOB engine: Bargon Attack, Gobliins 2, Goblins 3, Ween: The Prophecy, AGOS engine: Simon the Sorcerer's Puzzle Pack, Parallaction engine: Nippon Safes Inc., Touche: The Adventures of the Fifth Musketeer engine. DXA movies (higher quality than MPEG2) can be compressed better now and can be used for the Broken Sword cutscenes. Added 'Mass Add' feature to the Launcher, which allows you to scan for all games in all subdirectories of a given directory (to use it, press shift then click on "Add Game"). Many nice improvements to our ports. And as usual a gazillion small fixes, tweaks and improvements. So, what are you waiting for? Go and grab your free copy of the best-ever ScummVM while it's still hot! P.S.: The SourceForge.net download mirrors are a bit slow when it comes to syncing, hence it can happen that your download fails or is corrupt after the first try. Don't give up, just try to download from another mirror! [Less]

Once again, SourceForge is holding a vote to see which projects are most loved by the community. Last year, ScummVM nearly won in the gaming category, losing the first place to the Xbox Media Center project (which, we may add, does not allow you ... [More] to play classic adventure games on your Xbox). Everyone should quickly login to their SourceForge account (or create one if they haven't got one yet) and go to the voting page to vote for ScummVM! After you're done clicking, choose the "Best Project for Gamers" category. Feel free to do the same in the "Best Project" category. Note that this is only the first round of the election. The projects which get most votes now in each category will be selected for a second and final election round. Happy voting! [Less]

Nippon Safes, Inc., the first exciting instalment of the Parallaction engine, is now supported in current SVN builds (which can be found under "SVN Builds" on the downloads page) and open for testing and bug reporting via the ScummVM bug tracker. ... [More] Are you smarter than an experienced safe cracker? Are you sexier than an explosive lap dancing bombshell? Are you dumber than a punch-drunk Italian former boxer? No matter how you answer, you are bound to end up in jail in the first 5 minutes. Don't worry, though. You might be paroled or somebody might help you and provide the bail, but not for free*. Help Dough, Donna and Dino in paying their - real or imaginary - debt, but be warned: accepting a job from a hideous misfit in a trench may lead to unexpected results. Don't miss the playable demo you can find here, and don't forget to submit some sexy screenshots. *You might think you owe something even if you were parolled, but that's restricted to the slight case you really are a punch-drunk boxer. [Less]

Hello there ScummVM users! It's that time of year again where we ask you to test your games while we gear up for a new release, and this time it's for 0.10.0. While the official Big Testing Season(TM) begins on May 23, we ask that you begin testing ... [More] games now, except for AGOS games (Simon the Sorcerer series, Feeble Files) and Nippon Safes. There are several new games for 0.10.0 including Touche: The Adventure of the Fifth Musketeer and Future Wars. In addition, DrMcCoy has been extra busy and dealt us Gobliins 2, Goblins 3, Ween: The Prophecy and Bargon Attack. Also, Nippon Safes will be included in this release. This release will also feature the AGI games from the merge with Sarien. There are detailed instructions on how to perform testing in a helpful way. You will find them at our Wiki page. Please, stick to those and report on our mailing list, on #scummvm or in our forums. The current list of tested games can be found here. [Less]

The blazingly fast addition of Goblins 3 was gracefully performed thanks to the not-so-big differences from Gobliins 2. For you, an average peasa... adventurer, that means that YOU can reach an agreement between King Bodd and Queen Xina. Will you ... [More] succeed? Find out by grabbing your old copy of Goblins 3 from your dusty shelves, combining it with a shiny new ScummVM 0.10.0svn (check the build date, it has to be after April 21, 2007, yes, 2007). Read our bug submissions guidelines and enter any bugs into the bug tracker. P.S.: Please make a couple of screenshots along the way. The screenshots submission guidelines are here. [Less]

Google has announced the final allocations of students to the projects participating in the Summer of Code program this year. So far, it has been a tremendous success, with over 6200 applications being submitted and over 900 students being ... [More] accepted. ScummVM received 37 applications and was finally awarded 7 slots for students who will work on a variety of tasks, under close and relentless supervision by _sev, Fingolfin, lordhoto and Jubanka. So Kari, David, Timothy, Sean, Andreas, Serhiy and Zbigniew welcome aboard! Competition was fierce, we had to drop several good applications, so for those of you who did not make it, don't despair. If you still believe your proposed task was cool, it should be done but just didn't make the final cut, and if you feel up to it, you can coordinate with us and go ahead with it anyway. ScummVM always welcomes code contributions! After all, that's the whole point of SoC: Getting people involved in open source :-) [Less]

You think RTS and ScummVM don't fit together? Of course they do! As you know, we have support for The Legend of Kyrandia for some time now. Now, after some work, we have parts of Dune 2 working with extensions to our Kyrandia code. However, there are ... [More] only a few things working correctly. At least the introduction sequence works like a charm by now (check the screenshots). Also the mentat is basically working, although it misses some animation sequences. Last but not least, the only in-game support we have so far is map loading, but there are some other things that you can't see on screenshots now. So stay tuned and wait for the first RTS supported by ScummVM! As the code is still a work in progress, it has not been committed yet. But, look for it within the next couple of days when LordHoto has a bit more working. Screenshot 1 Screenshot 2 Screenshot 3 Ok, so we all know this is an April Fool's joke. But, truthfully, Dune 2 does share several of the resources of the Kyrandia games. Furthermore, parts of the screenshots seen here were extracted using a Kyrandia tool (as LordHoto says). This still doesn't mean support will be added though. [Less]

Deadline for applications extended to March 26th! So, where are you going to spend the summer*? Some exotic beach? Perhaps Mêlée IslandTM? Well if you are a student and want to make a buck this summer (more accurately $4500 US ... [More] of them), Google is organizing the absolute Open Source recruitment drive, also known as the Google Summer of Code! The program is designed to create an incentive for students to participate in Open Source projects, by providing guidance and economic support. What's more, your favorite project ScummVM is proud to be participating! Think about it. Have you ever thought about contributing to a large Open Source project like ScummVM but were intimidated to do so? With the Summer of Code opportunity, you can put your skills at work under close cooperation with our mentors. They'll help you ease in the team, plan the task ahead of time with you and guide you all along. To get things started, you have to pitch us your idea. Take a look at our Open Tasks page for some suggestions. Then visit the Google Summer of Code website, read up on the FAQ and check out the application guide. Now, hurry up! You've got until March 26, so get cracking! *: Summer in the northern hemisphere definition :-) [Less]