{"id":16,"date":"2017-05-11T13:03:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T13:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/joefish-gsoc\/?p=16"},"modified":"2022-05-21T14:09:23","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T14:09:23","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/joefish-gsoc\/2017\/05\/11\/introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"

There have been many games I enjoyed over the last decades and some of them\u00a0would have been already lost if it weren’t for enthusiasts writing emulators\u00a0or go as far as rewriting engines themselves.
\nPersonally, I haven’t done much in that regard other than poking memory for\u00a0infinite gold or a simple reversing challenge. However, when the organizations\u00a0for this year’s GSoC were announced one particular project caught my attention.
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\nI have fond memories diluted by nostalgia, of point and click adventures like\u00a0Day of the Tentacle, Loom and others. Despite the genre’s revival it has been\u00a0mostly off of my radar for quite some time.\u00a0So far it has been a great experience contributing to the project. Not only can\u00a0I finally put my DOS knowledge and reverse engineering to use but the community\u00a0has been welcoming, helpful and overall a great place.\u00a0The ScummVM project ports point ‘n’ click and since recently also RPG game engines\u00a0to their ecosystem so that they can be played on a\u00a0variety of platforms<\/a>. (shoutout to criezy going through 30 revisions of my PR deep into the night…)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> I have been fortunate to be selected to port\u00a0Mission Supernova<\/a>\u00a0over the summer and translate the game from German to English. Anyone interested in the progress of my work, keep an eye on my\u00a0repo<\/a>\u00a0and this blog where I will write about the progress of the project, its difficulties and technical details I find interesting.<\/p>\n

Thanks again to the ScummVM team and Google for giving me this amazing opportunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There have been many games I enjoyed over the last decades and some of them\u00a0would have been already lost if it weren’t for enthusiasts writing emulators\u00a0or go as far as rewriting engines themselves. Personally, I haven’t done much in that regard other than poking memory for\u00a0infinite gold or a simple reversing challenge. However, when the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/joefish-gsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/joefish-gsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/joefish-gsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/joefish-gsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/joefish-gsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/joefish-gsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/joefish-gsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/joefish-gsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/joefish-gsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/joefish-gsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}