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Hi

I'm planning on doing a SCUMM like adventure game using Slick, so expect some new on this project soon!

I've researched if there were any useful available library/framework that may help but didn't find any, if anybody happen to know something, let me know!

Might be try to get in contact with these guys:

http://www.innoveware.com/projects.html

They seem to have started a SCUMM VM port to Java. However, suspiciously no news and some odd comments in the news section about porting individual games :/

Sounds like a great project, can't wait for Sam and Max!

Kev

I've checked the site, but the author says it won't reveal any source code until the project "is finished"... so I can't expect much from it, besides the lack of news about it (It's called ScummScott or something)

Ah, one of them, fair enough :/

Spose you could always go to the ScummVM original stuff and port that - doesn't seem to be much doc for the Scumm format itself around.

If you need anything new from Slick just let me know

Kev

Scumm was a script engine but they switched to Lua scripts (http://www.lua.org). The first LucasArts release without Scumm was Grim Fandango.

Yes! In fact SCUMM means Script Creation Utility (for) Maniac Mansion

I'm planning on using jRuby for the scripting part, altough I'm not sure if it will be necessary

manic

maniac
See here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maniac_Mansion

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This is the architecture diagram of the new "Untitled SCUMM Project" or USP from now on.

I'll build a "Room & Actors API" that deals with the game and graphics, using Slick and whenever necessary (hopefully never) direct access to LWJGL.

The idea is then to code the game/s using a scripting languaje. I'll use JRuby but also program the API so that it can use any JSR 233 scripting language.

Ideas and/or comments requested!

Looks sound, not got any idea about the scripting JSR so I guess it'll be doubley interesting from that point of view.

If you need any help, giss a shout

Kev

I would be very interested in any experience you'll gain and want to share with JRuby / JSR 233.

I did one project at work with BeanShell which was a) quite some fun and
b) very successful as it exactly did the job the way we wanted it (hardcoding generic behavior and specializing details via BeanShell script).

But as Ruby sounds interesting as a script language and the generic scripting interface seems to be a very good approach I would definitely be interested in any "hands on" experience [/url]

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Thanks for the feedback!

The good news is that almost everything for the "Rooms & Actors API" is already implemented somewhere (A* and stuff) so it will be porting and enhancing

As with JRuby, so far I did a "hello world" app (with Java 6) and it seems very easy... will keep you guys posted