Developer Central

The purpose of this page is to give a link to all kinds of resources that contain information valuable to current and future developers of ScummVM.

Writing code

The first thing you need to be able to do is Compiling_ScummVM.
If you write Code, please absolutely make sure to read about our Code formatting conventions. Patches which do not follow them tend to be rejected or at least delayed until they are cleaned up to comply to them. Code_Formatting_Conventions
If you have write access to our repository, please make sure to read the Commit Guidelines first!
If you want to provide a new Engine for ScummVM, check out our Engines HOWTO.
If you want to port ScummVM to a new platform, check out our Backends HOWTO.
Our release guideline for ScummVM Release HOWTO
Our release testing status for the latest stable release Release_Testing
Our Doxygen source code documentation may help you to get the big picture about ScummVM.

To see a generic list of tasks that need to be done, check out the ScummVM TODO file.
Gob_TODO
HE_Progress
Residual_TODO
SAGA_TODO
Simon_TODO