Difference between revisions of "GSoC Ideas"

The Wintermute Engine (WME) is a set of tools for creating and running graphical adventure games. It was originally only for Windows, letting users create 2D, 2.5D (using 3D characters in a 2D environment) and 3D games for free. The Wintermute Engine has a free SDK, so this would allow people to directly develop 2D games that would run in ScummVM, which is a regular request from ScummVM users.

Recently, a WME developer (Mnemonic) created the WME Lite runtime, to try and make WME games run on more platforms. It "only" supports 2D and 1st person games - so not the 2.5D/3D games outside the scope of ScummVM - and is missing some features, and runs on Windows, iOS and MacOS. The engine should be backward compatible, and development since the last version (v1.9.1, on 1/1/2010) has been slow, so it's a good time to work on the integration of WME Lite into ScummVM, using the code available from [http://code.google.com/p/wmelite Google Code].

The important part of the task would be to ''integrate the WME Lite sources into ScummVM'', making use of ScummVM subsystems for graphics, audio, input, etc, and reworking the code to follow our portability/style guidelines. This would provide enhanced portability of the engine, and add Free sound support.

After that, the target would be to add and test support for a number of WME 2D and 1st Person games, taking into account the limitations of WME Lite (see list [http://res.dead-code.org/doku.php/wmelite:start#unsupported_and_changed_features here]).