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=== Description of the Organization=== | === Description of the Organization=== | ||
<span style="color:red">Since 2014, ScummVM is an GSoC umbrella for its sister project, ResidualVM.<span style="color:red"> | <span style="color:red">Since 2014, ScummVM is an GSoC umbrella for game preservation projects, such as its sister project, ResidualVM.<span style="color:red"> | ||
ScummVM is a collection of | <span style="color:red">ScummVM is a collection of game engines for playing classic graphical point-and-click adventure games on modern hardware.<span style="color:red"> | ||
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 reimplementations in C++ of the engines used in the original games. The development team works either by 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 and ScummVM is able to run more than 200 games. 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 also runs on popular game consoles (Wii, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, Dingoo and more), smart phones and PDAs (Android, WinCE, 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 45 currently active developers (out of an all-time pool of over 110), working together on a codebase of 2, | 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 reimplementations in C++ of the engines used in the original games. The development team works either by 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 and ScummVM is able to run more than 200 games. 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 also runs on popular game consoles (Wii, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, Dingoo and more), smart phones and PDAs (Android, WinCE, 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 45 currently active developers (out of an all-time pool of over 110), working together on a codebase of 2,400,000 lines of code. In addition ScummVM has many non-developer contributors, and a huge and highly active community. ScummVM is among the top ranking projects hosted on sourceforge.net with over 100,000 monthly downloads and ~10 million project web hits per month. ScummVM has been regularly designated SourceForge project of the week in 2014 and 2015, and was elected SourceForge project of the month February 2015. | ||
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ResidualVM has a productive team of about 20 currently active developers (out of an all-time pool of over 40), working together on a codebase of nearly 300,000 lines of code. | ResidualVM has a productive team of about 20 currently active developers (out of an all-time pool of over 40), working together on a codebase of nearly 300,000 lines of code. | ||
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RogueVM is another sister project of ScummVM and was created this year. It shares the common code with ScummVM, as well as some developers and mentors. | |||
RogueVM is a multi-platform collection of game engines for playing 2D RPG games. The game engines are complete reimplementation of the games in C++, based on Reverse Engineering analysis. | |||
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