My second week of GSoC is over and has been full of different activities: I wrote two news items, took screenshots for qdEngine and SLUDGE games, started working on a new engine (WAGE) and had a video meeting with my mentor.
As I wrote in my previous posts, the main work on qdEngine is done, but few things were needed before the announcement: preparing screenshots, creating wiki pages for the games and writing the announcement post itself. And I started the week this those tasks. Taking the screenshots turned out to be quite useful as I discovered the regression caused by one of commits. In particular, when playing “Wait for it! Issue 3. Song for a Hare” I found that the game went black screen and stalled after playing a video. After probing the packets with ffprobe, I found that it happened because of a packet with invalid timestamp, which I did not consider in my PR. I quickly fixed the issue, and the videos are playing normally now. After the screenshots, I created a wiki page for the newly added games and I wrote a news item to announce the full support for qdEngine.
Following the qdEngine, I did the same kind of tasks for the SLUDGE engine. Again, taking the screenshots were useful as I discovered that I did not cover one case with save/load system – autosaves. By that time, I was very comfortable with the saves, so it was an easy fix.
After the SLUDGE, I started working on WAGE engine. This engine is also very close to completion with only a few small things left to be done. However, to properly implement the leftover features and fix the bugs, I needed to compare with the original, which wasn’t that easy to set up due to intricacies of the file system of Macintosh. But that wasn’t that big of an issue, thanks to ScummVM project leader and my mentor – Eugene (sev), who kindly guided and explained every step for me in video call.
Right now I am continuing my work on WAGE. I’ve already fixed a couple of bugs, and there is only problem with the text (About dialog) left for now. After that, I plan to redump the games which is also part of the tasks for this engine.