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Most importantly, we'd like you to join our community. There are many previous GSoC participants who are still involved in our project, and whether or not you participate as part of Summer of Code, we'd love for you to get involved too. | Most importantly, we'd like you to join our community. There are many previous GSoC participants who are still involved in our project, and whether or not you participate as part of Summer of Code, we'd love for you to get involved too. | ||
You should come to our [[ | You should come to our [[Discord Server]] and introduce yourself in the #scummvm-gsoc channel! We're friendly, and it's often the easiest way to ask questions about the tasks and the code in general. The channel is the main form of everyday communication for the project, and there will almost always be developers there who can discuss your project ideas, answer questions and help out. | ||
You can find more information about what we expect from you before you apply at [[GSoC Application]]. | You can find more information about what we expect from you before you apply at [[GSoC Application]]. | ||
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== Tasks == | == Tasks == | ||
General contacts: Our | General contacts: Our Discord server our mailing list, or contact [[User:Sev|sev]], [[User:DJWillis|John Willis]], [[User:Strangerke|Arnaud Boutonné]] | ||
The ideas here are meant to be just that - '''ideas'''. We hope they help inspire your proposals, but you should also consider suggesting your own completely new project ideas. Pick something you really want to see improved/fixed, and come and talk to us about it! | The ideas here are meant to be just that - '''ideas'''. We hope they help inspire your proposals, but you should also consider suggesting your own completely new project ideas. Pick something you really want to see improved/fixed, and come and talk to us about it! | ||
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== Game Tasks == | == Game Tasks == | ||
Technical contacts: Our | Technical contacts: Our Discord channel, our mailing list, or contact [[User:Sev|sev]], [[User:DJWillis|John Willis]], [[User:Strangerke|Arnaud Boutonné]], [[User:Md5|Filippos Karapetis]], | ||
If you already have reverse engineering experience, you could consider working on one of the external in-development game engines, or even on support for a new game. However, doing this kind of work is very difficult and time-consuming - you would have to convince us that you have the necessary skills to actually be sufficiently productive, probably by demonstrating some actual progress first. | If you already have reverse engineering experience, you could consider working on one of the external in-development game engines, or even on support for a new game. However, doing this kind of work is very difficult and time-consuming - you would have to convince us that you have the necessary skills to actually be sufficiently productive, probably by demonstrating some actual progress first. | ||
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[[Director/Games|Many 90s-era adventure games]] were developed using the Macromedia (now Adobe) Director tool. It would be nice to be able to play these games in ScummVM! We have a WIP engine in ScummVM tree, but it requires much more work in order to implement all hundreds of Lingo commands. | [[Director/Games|Many 90s-era adventure games]] were developed using the Macromedia (now Adobe) Director tool. It would be nice to be able to play these games in ScummVM! We have a WIP engine in ScummVM tree, but it requires much more work in order to implement all hundreds of Lingo commands. | ||
=== Enhance SAGA engine === | === Enhance SAGA engine for supporting Amiga Inherit the Earth === | ||
Technical contacts: [[User:Sev|sev]] | Technical contacts: [[User:Sev|sev]] | ||
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We have been supporting the [[Inherit the Earth]] game for a long while. However, Amiga versions are not yet supported by this target. We have the original source codes, and the main difference is the data bundles format. | We have been supporting the [[Inherit the Earth]] game for a long while. However, Amiga versions are not yet supported by this target. We have the original source codes, and the main difference is the data bundles format. | ||
=== SAGA2 engine === | |||
Technical contacts: [[User:Sev|sev]] | |||
Difficulty level: High. | |||
We have full sources for [[Halls of the_Dead: Faery Tale Adventure II]] game. This needs to be refactored and brought to ScummVM's OSystem framework. This task requires a decent knowledge of C++ and some x86 assembly (relatively little). | |||
Beware, that the task is ''very'' big, you will have to deal with 90k lines of code and must make the game at least playable. If there is not enough time within GSoC, you would need to spend some time after the program and reach the milestone of playability. | |||
=== Bring your own Adventure or RPG === | === Bring your own Adventure or RPG === | ||
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== Smaller Tasks == | == Smaller Tasks == | ||
=== | === Icon based game view and game grouping/filtering === | ||
Technical contacts: somaen | |||
Difficulty: Easy | |||
The current game list in ScummVM is a flat, but searchable list of games. Since these are games, most, if not all of them at some point came in boxes with fancy box art, and awesome logos on them, | |||
and that art is a bit more appealing than a simple list of game titles. We currently allow for something a bit prettier for savegames, where we allow for showing a grid of screenshots. This concept | |||
could be taken to the game list as well, allowing for replacing the list of titles with a grid of logos/box art. The logos themselves can be scraped from a variety of places online (perhaps Mobygames | |||
or GoG?), or supplied by the end user manually. To signal the language of each title we would allow for putting a little flag on each title. | |||
Difficulty: Easy. | Another point that could be worked on with the game list, is the grouping. Currently the list is sorted by title, some people with larger libraries might prefer to group by company, or game engine instead, | ||
similar to how a file-browser allows you to select what to sort by. Perhaps also allow for foldable groups (per engine, or per company?), similar to how folders work in a file-browser. Further ideas to | |||
allow for better library management are also welcome. | |||
=== Add Text To Speech (TTS) to more games === | |||
Technical contacts: criezy | |||
Difficulty: Easy | |||
ScummVM includes text-to-speech capabilities that are currently used to improve accessibility in the GUI, and to add speech to a few games. More games could benefit from it and the task will be to add text-to-speech to those. | |||
=== Add Keymapper to more games === | |||
Technical contacts: sev | |||
Difficulty: Easy | |||
ScummVM includes a global fully configurable keymapper, but this requires engines to be adapted to use it. The feature documentation: [[Keymapper]], some reference implementations: Wintermute has [https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/blob/master/engines/wintermute/keymapper_tables.h per-game keymaps]; [https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/pull/2428 a pull request] with adding keymapper to HDB engine; [https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/commit/cce713ee4c73504e97eba8b0ca9190e47d279e69 a commit] with adding Keymapper to a simpler engine, Griffon. | |||
=== Support Unicode input in GUI === | |||
Technical contacts: [[User:Sev|sev]] | |||
Difficulty: Medium | |||
Last year we enhanced our GUI for supporting Unicode output. Now we need to enhance our input system, so Unicode input is supported as well. This includes RTL support (we have FriBiDi employed for output). | |||
== Infrastructure Tasks == | == Infrastructure Tasks == | ||
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Difficulty: Medium | Difficulty: Medium | ||
ScummVM uses software scalers for graphics enhancements. In 2012 we were running GSoC for turning them into plugins. [https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/pull/271 That work] | ScummVM uses software scalers for graphics enhancements. In 2012 we were running GSoC for turning them into plugins. [https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/pull/271 That work] It was recently merged in ScummVM but could require some more love like adding xBRZ scalers. | ||
Modern systems often have OpenGL with shader support. RetroArch project shaders are standard for them in open source gaming. LordHoto started work on adding support for those to ScummVM. His unfinished work could be found here: https://github.com/lordhoto/scummvm/tree/libretro-shader | Modern systems often have OpenGL with shader support. RetroArch project shaders are standard for them in open source gaming. LordHoto started work on adding support for those to ScummVM. His unfinished work could be found here: https://github.com/lordhoto/scummvm/tree/libretro-shader | ||