Gob

Gob
Engine developer	DrMcCoy, eriktorbjorn, sev, strangerke, wjp
Companies that used it	Coktel Vision
Games that use it	See Games
Date added to ScummVM	2005-04-05
First release containing it	0.8.0

Games

Engine to run adventure games created by Coktel Vision:

• Adibou Games
• AJ's World of Discovery
• Bargon Attack
• Croustibat
• Fascination
• Geisha
• Gobliiins
• Gobliins 2
• Goblins 3
• Inca II: Nations of Immortality
• Lost in Time
• Once Upon A Time: Little Red Riding Hood
• Playtoons 1 - Uncle Archibald
• Playtoons 2 - The Case of the Counterfeit Collaborator
• Playtoons 3 - The Secret of the Castle
• Playtoons 4 - The Mandarine Prince
• Playtoons 5 - The Stone of Wakan
• Playtoons Limited Edition - Bambou le Sauveur de la Jungle (English title unknown)
• Playtoons Construction Kit 1 - The Monsters
• Playtoons Construction Kit 2 - The Knights
• Playtoons Construction Kit 3 - The Far West
• The Bizarre Adventures of Woodruff and the Schnibble (known as Woodruff and The Schnibble of Azimuth in Europe)
• The Last Dynasty
• The Prophecy (known as Ween: The Prophecy in Europe)
• Urban Runner

Note: Inca 1 also uses the same file formats as the other games, but it uses a different engine

Status

• Gobliiins, Gobliins 2, Goblins Quest 3, Ween: The Prophecy, Bargon Attack, Lost in Time, Woodruff, Fascination, Urban Runner, Bambou, Geisha, Little Red, Adibou 2 (Environment, Read/Count 4/5 + 6/7) are completable
• Inca II:
  • Completeable
  • Hard-coded space shooter not implemented
• Adibou 1 / A.J.'s World:
  • Mostly playable
  • No access to Read/Count applications (missing opcodes)
  • A few missing opcodes (e.g. fill a zone in Paint game)
  • No saving
  • A few graphical glitches
  • Some versions (a German Version of A.J World / ADI Jr.) exhibit bigger graphical issues (broken display with scattered pixels)
• The Last Dynasty:
  • Somewhat playable
  • Segmented VMD resources don't work
  • Hard-coded space shooter is missing
• Playtoons
  • Story mode works
  • Construction mode broken
• Adibou 2 / Addy Junior
  • Environment CD and Read/Count 4-5 years & 6-7 years completable without known issues
  • No printing support
  • Extensions "Nature/Sciences", "English", and "Music" not supported (yet)
• ADI/Addy
  • Lots and lots of missing opcodes
• Adibou 3 / Adiboo 3
  • Huge work ahead (uses a new script system)

Technical Information

• MultiMediaWiki page on VMD format: https://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php/VMD
• Misc doc about configuration files found in Coktel games: mdo.ini Information mdo.dbg Information mdo.def Information
• Misc doc on differences between "DEV" engine versions (DEV being "Gob" actual name): Dev6 Information Dev7 Information Debug Menu for Dev7Games

Resources

• TODO page
• Bugs: List of bugs that occurred in the original versions