Maniac Tentacle Mindbenders: ScummVM's unpaid coders keep adventure gaming alive(arstechnica.com)

Maniac Tentacle Mindbenders: ScummVM's unpaid coders keep adventure gaming alive

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2012/01/maniac-tentacle-mindbenders-of-atlantis-how-scummvm-kept-adventure-gaming-alive.ars/1

3 comments

lusr15 anni fa

The most impressive part of the story for me: "Strigeus, who left in early 2002, went on to develop several more open-source projects, most notably OpenTTD—a remake and expansion of Chris Sawyer's classic sim game Transport Tycoon Deluxe. He also authored BitTorrent client µTorrent, which was purchased by BitTorrent, Inc. in 2006, and was chief architect of the Spotify beta."

It appears as though the only significant piece of software written by this guy which I haven't used extensively is Spotify, and that's just because it isn't supported in South Africa yet.

yvdriess15 anni fa

Reminded me of another super-coder: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard

huskyr15 anni fa

Didn't know that. That's a pretty impressive list of big software projects :)

The Spotify client is really good too. It's very fast, rarely crashes on me, and strikes a nice balance between features and simplicity.

perfunctory15 anni fa

Does anybody know the name of this game, please?!

http://static.arstechnica.com/scummvm-history/scummvm-androi...

madmoose15 anni fa

It's Gobliiins: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobliiins

perfunctory15 anni fa

Thanks. I loved it when I was a kid.

crystalis15 anni fa

Kept adventure gaming alive? There have been plenty of great adventure games since 2001, but this article was mostly about life support...

(It's also always worth mentioning the continuing interactive fiction, the precursor for adventure games. http://pr-if.org/play/ is a good starting place.)