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.

Getting started

The first thing you need to be able to do is compile ScummVM.
Some hints on debugging ScummVM.
Before you write/submit code, you must read about our Code Formatting Conventions. Patches which do not follow them will be rejected or at least delayed until they are cleaned up to comply to them.
Also, please read and respect the Portability Guide.
If you have write access to our repository, you are expect to have read and to comply to the Commit Guidelines.
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 Doxygen source code documentation may help you to get the big picture about ScummVM.
Also, you might want to check our list for current Platform Limitations

List of open tasks, with relatively detailed descriptions, and contact points. Some rather small ones, some bigger ones, take a look.
Small Devices Backend -- this is under development as part of the GSoC, but additional help is welcome.
Modular Backends -- partially implemented. More work needed.
Keymapping Improvements -- still in the design stage. Help is welcome.

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