{"id":10,"date":"2013-05-31T12:41:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T12:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/richiesams\/?p=10"},"modified":"2022-05-22T19:50:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T19:50:00","slug":"obligatory-hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/richiesams\/2013\/05\/31\/obligatory-hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Obligatory “Hello world!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello world!<\/p>\n

Welcome to my new blog: ‘RichieSam’s Adventures in Code-ville’. This will be the place I share the coding experiences have and learn while working on my various projects. With that said, who am I and what am I working on?<\/p>\n

I’m a 21 year old, fourth year student studying at The University of Texas at Austin. I’m majoring in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Computer Science. I thoroughly enjoy programming, both the thrill of gettting something to work and the science\/math of algorithms and data structures. The majority of my programming projects have revolved around games. The first major project I did was creating an application that tracked guild currency for my guild. My latest project is a suite of tools to let users install, modify, and create game asset modifications of the game League of Legends. It required reverse engineering quite a few file formats and learning how to hook the game process in order to allow run-time asset swapping.<\/p>\n

The two big projects I’m working on right now are The Dargon Project and Z-engine for ScummVM. The Dargon Project is the aforementioned suite of applications. Z-engine is my project for Google Summer of Code.<\/p>\n

Z-engine:<\/p>\n

The Z-Engine is used in the games Zork Nemesis and Zork Grand Inquisitor. Marisa Chan created a C implementation of the engine, but it is only for desktop and requires configuration files. The project aims to create a ScummVM engine using Marisa Chan\u2019s implementation code as a guide into the Zork file structure and engine design. That is, it will not simply adapt the current implementation to the ScummVM engine structure. Rather, it will create a new engine, using the file structures and event implementations in Marisa Chan\u2019s code as a reference. ScummVM will allow these games to be played on a variety of platforms and a redesign will remove the need for configuration files. Lastly, it will mean that ScummVM will support all of the Zork point’n’click adventure games.<\/div>\n
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I’m absolutely thrilled be one of the lucky people to be a part of Google Summer of Code. ScummVM is an amazing group of developers and I’m really looking forward to being a part of that.<\/div>\n
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Well, I guess that’s it for now. My next post will most likely be about that start of GSoC.<\/div>\n
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Until then,<\/div>\n
-RichieSams<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello world! Welcome to my new blog: ‘RichieSam’s Adventures in Code-ville’. This will be the place I share the coding experiences have and learn while working on my various projects. With that said, who am I and what am I working on? I’m a 21 year old, fourth year student studying at The University of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/richiesams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/richiesams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/richiesams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/richiesams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/richiesams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/richiesams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/richiesams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/richiesams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/richiesams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/richiesams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}