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=== Describe your organization. === | === Describe your organization. === | ||
ScummVM is a collection of Virtual Machines which allow a variety of commercially available graphical point-and-click adventure games to run on modern hardware, often with improved features. Supported games include favorites such as Monkey Island, Simon the Sorcerer, Space Quest, and many more. To this end, the Virtual Machines (called Engines) are complete reimplementation of each supported game engine in a structured fashion using the C++ language. The development team works by either reverse engineering game executables (usually with the permission of creators of the game), or by using the original source code of the games provided by the creators. The number of engines is constantly growing thanks to a very agile and diversified development team. | |||
The VM approach followed by ScummVM results in efficient code, which has been ported to numerous Operating Systems. Besides running on all mainstream desktop environments, namely Windows, Mac OS X and most Unix variants (Linux, *BSD, Solaris | The VM approach followed by ScummVM results in efficient code, which has been ported to numerous Operating Systems. Besides running on all mainstream desktop environments, namely Windows, Mac OS X and most Unix variants (Linux, *BSD, Solaris), ScummVM works on popular game consoles (Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable and more), smart phones and PDAs (WinCE, PalmOS, iPhone or Symbian based), and even on many not-so-mainstream systems (like BeOS, AmigaOS or OS/2). | ||
ScummVM has a highly productive team of about 35 currently active developers (out of an all-time pool of over 60), who work together on a codebase almost 650,000 lines of code. In addition we have many non-developer contributors, and a huge and highly active community. ScummVM is among the top ranking projects hosted on sourceforge.net with well over 100,000 monthly downloads and ~10 million project web hits per month. | |||
=== Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2008? What do you hope to gain by participating? === | === Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2008? What do you hope to gain by participating? === |