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A point and click engine in PICO-8, inspired by the SCUMM engine

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Firstly, I'd like to thank you for taking the time to give feedback on my project (both positive and otherwise). :o)

With regards to the naming; I can see your point about the potential to "mislead" (which I attempted to negate right off the bat with my ReadMe).

However, the reason that I personally (and I understand this IS subjective) felt justified to incorporate the SCUMM name in the title is because I deliberately kept my API as identical as possible to the original SCUMM API (within reason - some functions/properties really needed modernising or weren't applicable).

There is also plans to be even closer to the original SCUMM design by distilling generated output (from a new Editor that I'm currently working on) to something akin, but not quite, OP-codes. If only to allow more game content to reside in the heavily-restricted space available in PICO-8 carts.

Again, thanks for all the valuable feedback (I have NO idea how my post got linked here), but I'm grateful all the same.

All the best,

Paul.

Go play Thimbleweed Park (Ron Gilbert's new adventure game) if you liked the classics. It was released a couple of weeks ago.

> it is only (heavily) "inspired" by the SCUMM engine, not a true replica - for that you'll want good ol' SCUMM-VM.

Not cool to use the name.

Lighten up. It's a forum post about a goofy project for a toy VM. It isn't a commercial product. Nobody's making money off it. Heck, the limitations of PICO-8 practically guarantee you won't be able to make a full-length game with this SCUMM engine.

Deleted a comment here about that because I read the github too hastily; you are right, not cool.

I would say it would need to run at least Manic Mansion and Monkey Island to be called a Scumm something.

It's not like SCUMM is synonymous with the orginal Scumm instruction set emulator. It's more an umbrella term for "simulating old school adventures" (See here: http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Engines). I don't see why this shouldn't work the other way around.

I am disappointed, there is no key below the door mat ;)

pretty amazing work!!!

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