And so it has come to this, all things must end. But it is nothing to be sad about for me, this has been a great addition to my experiences and I welcome the change for it has been something short of 3 and a half months that I’ve been working on DM. Not that I won’t be working on it from now on, but I’m definitely taking a few days off, lest I come to dislike it for looking at the codebase for too long.
The pull request to merge the engine is due next week as it still doesn’t compile with GCC (strangerke has been working on it relentlessly (think 127kbs of error log reduced to 9)). Relatedly, the code is not particularly compliant with the coding conventions at ScummVM (strangerke is working on it, I’ll soon start feeling ashamed and will have no choice but to help him).
As for the future of this blog, it is possible that I will post updates for when something major gets incorporated into the engine (think support for other versions).
Almost forgot about the new stuff, if I remember correctly it’s convenient loading/saving from the launcher and from the inventory. And also there are debugger commands like godmode, noclip, set pos/map and the aptly named, gimme, which spawns items. Entering the commands without arguments will output their usage, call ‘help’ for a list of them.
Gimme can be used like this: call ‘listItems’, if you are looking for something enter any part of it in caps like this ‘listItems OF FEAR’. Once you found what you are looking for, call gimme with its name: ‘gimme HORN OF FEAR’.
Setting the map is slightly broken. For best results, teleport to an adjacent map, then use pos to set your position next to some stairs and off you go. Avoid using noclip.
PS.: So long, and thanks for all the fish