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=== Hyperspace Delivery Boy ===
=== Hyperspace Delivery Boy ===
Technical contact: [[User:sev|sev]]
Technical contact: [[User:sev|sev]] or [[User:DJWillis|DJWillis]]  


Difficulty level: Medium to hard. Good knowledge of C++ and some knowledge of Lua are required.
Difficulty level: Medium to hard. Good knowledge of C++ and some knowledge of Lua are required.
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=== Mission Supernova games ===
=== Mission Supernova games ===


Technical contacts: [[User:Strangerke|Strangerke]] or [[User:Criezy|Criezy]] - <span style="color:red">Criezy will most likely not be available</span>
Technical contacts: [[User:Strangerke|Strangerke]] or [[User:Criezy|Criezy]]


Difficulty level: Medium. Good knowledge of C++ and basic knowledge of C and ASM is required. Some knowledge of German language would also help.  
Difficulty level: Medium. Good knowledge of C++ and basic knowledge of C and ASM is required. Some knowledge of German language would also help.  
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Finally, there's always plenty of other practical tasks on our wishlist!
Finally, there's always plenty of other practical tasks on our wishlist!


=== Improve Android port <span style="color:red">(To be confirmed)</span>===
=== Improve Android port</span>===
<span style="color:red">Fuzzie is certainly not available. Is there a mentor for this one?</span>


Technical contacts: [[User:Fuzzie|Fuzzie]]
Technical contacts: [[User:Sev|Sev]]


Difficulty level: Medium/hard. You'll need some knowledge of C++, Java and ideally Android development and OpenGL. Access to at least one Android device is probably also necessary.
Difficulty level: Medium/hard. You'll need some knowledge of C++, Java and ideally Android development and OpenGL. Access to at least one Android device is probably also necessary.
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Our current Android port is in need of improvement, especially combined with modern versions of Android. We'd like to improve the GUI and the input code in particular, but hopefully you also have your own ideas if you've tried the port (if you haven't: do so!). There are some patches already available, and it should be possible to merge code from other projects (such as SDL 2). A native configuration GUI could also be an option.
Our current Android port is in need of improvement, especially combined with modern versions of Android. We'd like to improve the GUI and the input code in particular, but hopefully you also have your own ideas if you've tried the port (if you haven't: do so!). There are some patches already available, and it should be possible to merge code from other projects (such as SDL 2). A native configuration GUI could also be an option.


=== Game packaging system <span style="color:red">(To be confirmed)</span>===
=== Game packaging system ===


Technical contacts: [[User:Sev|sev]]
Technical contacts: [[User:Sev|sev]] or [[User:DJWillis|DJWillis]]  


ScummVM offers 8 freeware games for download, but they need to be downloaded and installed manually. It would be great to develop a universal system which would let us descibe a game, e.g. provide screenshots, game descriptions, metadata, and package it for different platforms, so we could put them to different applicaiton distribution systems.
ScummVM offers 8 freeware games for download, but they need to be downloaded and installed manually. It would be great to develop a universal system which would let us descibe a game, e.g. provide screenshots, game descriptions, metadata, and package it for different platforms, so we could put them to different applicaiton distribution systems.
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Examples are: Linux packages, Google Play, Apple App Store, Steam, ForgeTV store, and anything beyond that.
Examples are: Linux packages, Google Play, Apple App Store, Steam, ForgeTV store, and anything beyond that.


=== Support for shaders and arbitrary scalers <span style="color:red">(To be confirmed)</span>===
=== Support for shaders and arbitrary scalers ===


Technical contacts: [[User:Sev|sev]]
Technical contacts: [[User:Sev|sev]]
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We need to have it tested on desktops and at least Android, but preferably also Windows and iOS.
We need to have it tested on desktops and at least Android, but preferably also Windows and iOS.
=== Text to speech <span style="color:red">(To be confirmed)</span>===
Technical contacts: Our IRC channel, our mailing list, or contact [[User:Strangerke|Arnaud Boutonné]] or [[User:criezy|Thierry Crozat]] - <span style="color:red">Criezy will most likely not be available</span>
We have two suggested tasks in the direction of text-to-speech:
'''Adding text-to-speech support in Mortville Manor'''
Difficulty: Easy (depending on how you want to approach the task); just knowledge of C++ and some experience programming should suffice.
The original [[Mortville Manor]] game used a speech synthesis system based on PC Speaker.
Our hope for this task would be to replace this obsolete speech synthesis with an external dependency which would allow the implementation of modern text-to-speech generation, in (at least) French, German and English. We have some ideas for which libraries would be suitable, but we're also open to suggestions (and offering the option of platform-specific APIs is also a possibility).
'''Adding speech synthesis of on-screen text for people with reduced sight or for learning to read'''
Difficulty: Medium. You'll need to be comfortable enough with C++ to be able to (quickly) understand enough of the existing engine code in order to add this functionality.
Using the same library used in the previous task, it would be nice to have similar text-to-speech generation for other games. The challenge here would (hopefully) be to add the necessary interfaces for providing the text, and any needed other information (such as timing), to individual game engines. Part of your preparatory work would be working out (with our help) which engines to target.
This task would allow people suffering from sight issues to play more games in ScummVM, and it could also be very useful to help people who are learning to read.
Alternatively (or additionally), you could consider adding other accessibility features.
DJWillis
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