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Dink Smallwood is an action RPG video game, developed by Robinson Technologies, at the time consisting of Seth Robinson, Justin Martin, and Greg Smith. It was first released in 1998 before being released as freeware on October 17, 1999. The game has a small but constant fan following that continues to develop add-ons for the game more than 15 years after its release. The game is also notable for its humorous dialogue and surrealistic themes in various scenes between the gameplay.
Dink Smallwood is an action RPG video game, developed by Robinson Technologies, at the time consisting of Seth Robinson, Justin Martin, and Greg Smith. It was first released in 1998 before being released as freeware on October 17, 1999. The game has a small but constant fan following that continues to develop add-ons for the game more than 15 years after its release. The game is also notable for its humorous dialogue and surrealistic themes in various scenes between the gameplay.


The purpose of the task is to port the available sources of Dink Smallwood on top of ScummVM's framework and to make sure it also have a good support fan's MOD. (about 350 games currently)
The purpose of the task is to port the available sources of Dink Smallwood on top of ScummVM's OSystem framework and to make sure it also have a good support of fan's MOD. (about 350 games currently)
 
=== Dungeon Master engine ===
 
Technical contacts: [[user:strangerke|strangerke]], [[User:dreammaster|dreammaster]]
 
Difficulty level: Medium. Good C++ knowledge.
 
Dungeon Master was released on 15 December 1987 on the Atari ST, and by early 1988 was a strong seller, becoming the best-selling game for the computer of all time.
It then was ported to Amiga, PC DOS and many other platforms, with the same success. It's considered nowadays to be a reference in RPG game, possibly the title who made the genre popular.
 
The purpose of the task is to port Dungeon Master's engine and implement it on top of ScummVM's Osystem framework and to make sure it also have a good support of fan's MOD.


== Infrastructure Tasks ==
== Infrastructure Tasks ==

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