Difference between revisions of "Kyra"

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Kyra
Engine developer	cyx, LordHoto, vinterstum
Companies that used it	Westwood Studios
Games that use it	The Legend of Kyrandia, Hand of Fate, Malcolm's Revenge
Date added to ScummVM	2004-04-09
First release containing it	0.9.0

Status of the Kyra engine

The Legend of Kyrandia

The current Kyrandia engine in the ScummVM SVN repository can play through The Legend of Kyrandia (some graphics glitches still occur). The data file (kyra.dat) needed can be found in the SVN section "engine-data" (kyra.dat for latest ScummVM SVN, kyra.dat for the latest ScummVM Release).

Hand of Fate

There is some in-game support available for Hand of Fate in ScummVM SVN.

Malcolm's Revenge

Also ScummVM SVN is capable of showing the Malcolm's Revenge main menu and playing the introduction sequence and parts of the intro.

Status of the Source Release

Negotiations for the release of the source to Kyrandia (and possible freeware release) have been conducted with Electronic Arts LA. The original code and assets from the Westwood-era have been confirmed to still exist on backups.

Action has stalled, mostly due to confusion over the franchise ownership and licensing. As of the last update, EA has reconfirmed their ownership of the rights.

Games using this engine

The Legend of Kyrandia (1992)
The Legend of Kyrandia: Book Two: Hand of Fate (1993)
The Legend of Kyrandia: Book Three: Malcolm's Revenge (1994)

TODO

Complain if no game data was found in specified directory instead of assert() and producing bunch of useless warnings.
make sound working properly (MIDI sound has some problems)
Reduce kMD5FileSizeLimit from 1MB to e.g. 80 kb (this might require recomputing some MD5s, but is faster, and good enough for finger printing)

Tech info

The items and the map lists include tips for the game, do not look at them if you want to play the game on your own.

Kyrandia 1

Kyrandia 2: Hand of Fate

Kyrandia 3: Malcolm's Revenge

External links

ftp://ftp.westwood.com/pub/kyrandia1/ - Kyrandia 1 - update, demo, sample music, screenshots

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 == Status of the Kyra engine ==
+=== The Legend of Kyrandia ===
 The current Kyrandia engine in the ScummVM SVN repository can play through [[The Legend of Kyrandia|The Legend of Kyrandia]] (some graphics glitches still occur). The data file (kyra.dat) needed can be found in the SVN section "engine-data" ([http://scummvm.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/scummvm/engine-data/trunk/kyra.dat kyra.dat for latest ScummVM SVN], [http://scummvm.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/scummvm/engine-data/tags/release-0-11-1/kyra.dat kyra.dat for the latest ScummVM Release]).
-Also ScummVM SVN is capable of showing the [[The Legend of Kyrandia: Book Three: Malcolm's Revenge|Malcolm's Revenge]] main menu and playing the introduction sequence and parts of the intro and very little in game support is available for [[The Legend of Kyrandia: Book Two: Hand of Fate|Hand of Fate]].
+=== Hand of Fate ===
+There is some in-game support available for [[The Legend of Kyrandia: Book Two: Hand of Fate|Hand of Fate]] in ScummVM SVN.
+=== Malcolm's Revenge ===
+Also ScummVM SVN is capable of showing the [[The Legend of Kyrandia: Book Three: Malcolm's Revenge|Malcolm's Revenge]] main menu and playing the introduction sequence and parts of the intro.
 == Status of the Source Release ==