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I've seen this before but have always wondered how they made the bytecode part of the game. Did they have an editor or just plot things out on paper and then test in the virtual machine?

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I found details about the editor that Eric Chahi designed to make the game here: https://youtu.be/2PLLDpzwwUI?t=615

I don't know about "Another World", but at least LucasArts had a compiler (written with Yacc and Lex) for their adventure games on SCUMM engine.

What language did they write in? What kind of features does the language have? I'm curious how you would design such a language.

Some internal LucasArts documents have recently been put online by Aric Wilmunder.

Here's the official manual for SCUMM: http://wilmunder.com/Arics_World/Games_files/SCUMM%20Tutoria...

And the official tutorial: http://wilmunder.com/Arics_World/Games_files/SCUMM%20Tutoria...

There are several post-mortems about Maniac Mansion that go a bit into the creation of SCUMM: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNpjGvJwyL8 * http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014732/Classic-Game-Postmortem...

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