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Technical contacts: [[User:Strangerke|Arnaud Boutonné]], [[User:Sev|Eugene Sandulenko]].
Technical contacts: [[User:Strangerke|Arnaud Boutonné]], [[User:Sev|Eugene Sandulenko]].


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 (WME) is a set of tools for creating and running graphical adventure games. This idea involves integrating the game runtime engine into ScummVM - this would make the games far more portable. Since there is a free SDK, it would allow people to directly develop 2D games that would run in ScummVM, which is a regular request from ScummVM users.


This idea involves integrating the Wintermute runtime engine into ScummVM - this would make the games far more portable, and since there is a free SDK, it would allow people to directly develop 2D games that would run in ScummVM, which is a regular request from ScummVM users.
While the original runtime itself is LGPL, there is also a portable version of the runtime called ''WME Lite'', which already runs on Windows, iOS and MacOS. It only supports the 2D games, but since the 2.5D/3D games are outside the scope of ScummVM, that is ideal.


There is a portable version of the runtime called ''WME Lite'', which runs on Windows, iOS and MacOS. It only supports the 2D games, but since the 2.5D/3D games are outside the scope of ScummVM, it is ideal for integration into ScummVM.
The important part of the task would be the actual integration; using ScummVM subsystems for graphics, audio, input, etc, and reworking the code to follow our portability/style guidelines. If there's enough time, it would also be possible to add some missing WME Lite features: for example, video support (which is probably most important) and sprite frame mirroring, rotations and blending modes.
 
The important part of the task would be the actual integration; using ScummVM subsystems for graphics, audio, input, etc, and reworking the code to follow our portability/style guidelines.
 
If there's enough time, it would also be possible to add some missing WME Lite features: for example, video support (which is probably most important) and sprite frame mirroring, rotations and blending modes.


See [[OpenTasks/Engine/Wintermute]] for more details.
See [[OpenTasks/Engine/Wintermute]] for more details.
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