u/unixfan2001

Just thought I'd leave this here.

It's based on my personal ScummVM fork so I'm soon bringing it to other platforms and might try to get it merged into mainline ScummVM as well.

I also created my own SCUMM interpreter that features some quality of life improvements (improved controls in Zak McKracken, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and other early SCUMM games) I plan on porting to ScummVM as well (I initially created my own SCUMM v3/v5/v6 interpreter to support porting games to 3DO, Sega CD, Amiga 500/1000, TurboGrafx CD and other platforms where ScummVM isn't feasible).

https://www.patreon.com/posts/166833133

Lately, I've been working on a port of Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge to the Sega CD.
Yesterday then, somebody suggested I target the TurboGrafx CD next.

While I haven't yet written any engine code for it, I just got done with the resource converter so I thought people might appreciate it if I showed some comparisons between what a Sega CD and a potential TurboGrafx CD version look like.

I created my own SCUMM v5/v6 interpreter written in portable C89 and currently I'm adding v3 support as well so I'll eventually be able to port Zak McKracken and Loom to Sega CD (and the former of the two to TurboGrafx CD if things pan out, since you guys already got Loom on your system).

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I spent 5 years talking to this woman online, always hoping to meet her but always falling just short of it due to personal troubles.

In January I became unemployed and rather than just seeking unemployment, I tried powering through things at my own demise.

She discarded me almost a month ago after becoming tired of waiting, and after many episodes of her hoovering and discarding me.

I live in Switzerland. She lives in Canada, the land of my dreams.

She recently unblocked me on Telegram but leaves me on read and probably just collects "evidence". In her mind, she has convinced herself that I'm some abusive monster out to hurt her.

Even though I knew it wouldn't have been much different IRL, I still feel so regretful about everything.

She originally "saved" me from another BPD woman.

Now she says she's moving on with her life and only uses Telegram to forward love songs to her channel.

It all feels similar to our first fight in 2021. Although back then I didn't have these strong feelings for her so it was much easier for me. In fact, at one point I called her my "stalker" and she sent a gift to my mailbox. When I did the same to her, she freaked out and said she'd only keep the gift as potential criminal evidence.

I actually used to be proud of her and felt she was seeing a therapist regularly and take her meds, but now I believe she relapsed.

I'm in a really bad place, medically. I set up a Gofundme to pay for my medical expenses and every little bit of stress causes my kidney issues to get worse.

I just wish I could meet somebody new or that she would somehow remember me (last time we spoke was 4 days ago. Her voice sounded very different and she twisted reality with every word while refusing to engage with the past).

I really wanna go to Canada. I think just walking the streets and talking to people and taking in the nature would help me a lot.

Just thought I'd let you guys on here know that the demo to my game (which is currently seeking funding on Kickstarter, with just 8 days to go) is now live.

It's just a small demo that shows off some features not usually seen in point & click adventure games.

I've also posted my playthrough here:

https://youtu.be/dFBICenJN20?si=P9_JU_Ub6hX_7tKU

I've been in love with somebody with BPD for 5 years now.

We had our ups and downs but after last night's fight I feel I'll never get to talk to her again.

She lives in another country and is very protective of herself.

When we first met, I just wanted to be friends and was actually talking to another woman. She was in an abusive relationship at the time but really fell for me instantly. She never forgave me that it wasn't love at first sight (in a way it was. I loved her in so many other ways before we became romantically involved).

Last year my mom died and she reacted very harshly and told me to see a therapist (mind you, this was the very night my mom passed. Literally while my neighbors were driving me to the hospital and just hours before the machines were turned off).

At every point prior to that, I always blamed her "BPD Demon" (as we liked to call it) but that was one moment I couldn't forgive easily. We didn't talk for a few weeks and I briefly started talking to somebody else, after mutual friends were telling me that she was seeing somebody else (which turned out to be untrue at the time).

We eventually found our way back to each other and I was gonna take a flight to see her. Had everything planned last September and then my former bosses threatened to fire me if I don't cancel my planned vacation (they fired me anyways, two months later. Even stole my bonus).

I kept trying and trying. Finally started growing my own business, working 18 hours a day just to fix my life and make hers a tad sweeter.

Yesterday we started fighting again and she blocked me after I brought up her BPD, telling me that it was hurtful to bring it up/blame it for the outcome.

She kept telling me that I only wanna talk to her whenever it feels convenient and accused me of treating her like a soundboard. While it's true we have been talking less and less, that's mostly because I'm in dire straits and don't wanna share my own misery with a person I feel has her own cross to carry already. When I work 18 hour days and feel depressed by not making enough headway, I not only don't wanna unload it onto another person but I feel a sense of dread even thinking about the idea of sharing my depressive thoughts with somebody whom I love and don't want to stress.

Before blocking me she told me that I shouldn't waste my money coming to her country and that we would never have worked out IRL because of the aforementioned accusation of treating her like a mere soundboard.

Like I said. This isn't the first time and usually we find our way back to each other but in recent days she has also started talking to other men.

I honestly feel like I'm making too many excuses for her just because she's BPD. There's moments she is really loving and supportive and others she's distant and driving me crazy.

For those interested, I just made ScummVM4DOS free and open source for everybody.

I'm also currently running a Kickstarter for a Leisure Suit Larry-like point and click adventure that will also release on DOS if funded.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/156009827

I just realized I somehow never posted about this here before (at least I can't find anything when searching for Day of the Tentacle) but I'm maintaining a SCUMM v6 engine build for 3DO that I posted a short portion of a while ago.

I'm currently busy trying to make my Kickstarter succeed but I'd really love to eventually produce fully playable releases of Day of the Tentacle and Sam & Max Hit the Road for 3DO owners.

I've received some valuable pointers from Brad Taylor (of LucasArts/Humongous) so the final build should be performing much better than this really short recording in the beginning of my YouTube video.

It's very buggy and there's no music yet (I do have a version with music but that one tortures both the PS1's SPU and the listener's ears) but maybe it's of interest to some PS1 owners or DuckStation users.

Obviously still requires a legit copy of the game as my offering only includes the basic engine binary. Build instructions are in the Patreon post.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/154930474

Just thought I'd share it here, as well.

Been working on this for a week straight, after having plans for it for the past year.

This IDE will power all my future game development endeavors and I'll eventually open source it all.

At 16:30 in the video you can see me import Day of the Tentacle.

Thought I'd make this post an AMA for the technically inclined

A good friend of mine invited me to Nablus. Right now I don't have the money to go anyways (I lost my job a few months ago and I'm trying to make my own business a success through Kickstarter funding. But currently I'm failing at that) but once I have the means, I'd like to evade Israel.

Has anyone gotten any experience going to occupied Palestine through Jordan? I'm a German passport holder.

Just thought I'd create a new post to share my progress.

After having been sick with the flu most of last week, I spent all of Sunday and Monday working on GLAND (my engine is called SCUNK and its mascot is a skunk. So the naming convention just fit, while also staying true to the tradition established by the fine folks at LucasArts with SCUMM, BYLE, CYST, FLEM, MMUCAS and the unreleased SMEGMA), a new IDE for developing (primarily*) point and click adventure games that can be run in both ScummVM and a custom bytecode VM I maintain for ports to more exotic or lower end systems (Atari ST, Amiga 500/1000, 3DO, Sega Saturn, PS1. You name it, I probably got it).

The main goal in developing GLAND is to create a user-friendly development system that enables non-developers to contribute to indie game development and even complete laymen to start (and hopefully finish) their own little games.

The final release will ship with the ability to both package and test games in emulation (for Amiga, Atari ST, PS1, Sega Saturn, N64 and 3DO) as well as transfer the final binary to the target hardware via common USB debug protocols.

The final release of GLAND will be made available completely free-of-charge.

That being said, I still need help getting my game funded so I can work on this care-free.

* Technically, the scripting language is Turing-complete so you're not really limited to just point and click adventure games. In fact, I have made several non-adventure games in that engine and GLAND will include non-adventure templates as well.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/happy-ferret/tomas-king-of-rejection/posts/4695183

Kind of short notice but is anybody gonna be at Fantasy Basel (Swiss Comic Con)?

I'm going there today. Would love to meet other indie devs.

I'm quite desperate. After getting fired in January and burning through most of my savings in an attempt to find a new job, I finally bit the bullet and used a life insurance payout to found my own game studio.

Things were going great on the marketing front. I dispersed 500 flyers across two countries, gained a small but loyal following on YouTube and Bluesky, and have a dozen people who signed up to be notified when my Kickstarter would launch.

Fast forward to a few hours ago and I've been met with a handful of demands by Kickstarter as well as the insinuation that I used AI (I checked it myself and, funnily enough, one screenshot is being detected as human created whereas the other is claimed to be AI. The only difference between them is a big ole textbox with some dithering I drew on top of the background). They demand I declare my project as using generative AI as one of the requirements to proceed. I feel this would unfairly penalize me. NVM the other demands which include more digital rewards and fewer physical rewards, which is really not sensible for a retro point and click adventure game on Dreamcast, N64, Saturn, 3DO and other platforms my engine supports.

Is there any somewhat profitable alternative to Kickstarter and any "hack" to inform people who are subscribed to the Kickstarter prelaunch page?

I accidentally used a paid service when creating the QR code for my flyers but at least that part could turn out to be a boon now because they seem to allow changing the URL associated with the QR code.

Was hoping to promote my game at Fantasy Basel this week so I really hope I can find a way forward.

I've been in this spot where plans never work out and effort is never rewarded.

Back in 2023 I was launching my own small retro gaming brand, only for my "father" (I don't wanna call a "man" who mercilessly beat his wife after cheating on her for 5 years, burglarized my apartment and paid somebody to rough me up my father, because that's not how anybody should treat their own flesh and blood) to destroy everything and ruin my family.

Fast forward to 2026. My mom passed last year, our family cat Garfield joined her soon after (the little fellow wasn't the same after her passing) and, having lost my job in January, I decided to use my last savings to found my own company the proper way.

I spent the first few weeks building a small but dedicated social media following, handed out a total of 500 flyers, went to all sorts of local video game events (I was gonna head to Fantasy Basel next week to further promote my game. Now it all seems for naught) and proudly stared at the follower count on my Kickstarter pre-launch page ticking upwards.

This was gonna be my chance to make my life better. I know I could have succeeded.
I put everything into that project. All my money and all my energy.

Now Kickstarter has decided I'm apparently not "worthy" of creating another campaign because the campaign I created in 2023 (which raised 1,283 euros. It was a hobby project. Not something I intended to do full time back then) remains unfulfilled.

My plan was to fulfill it this Christmas, after having secured enough financial stability to actually work on things full-time. I get Kickstarter wants to protect its customers (I've been scammed on that platform often enough myself) but I think it's unrealistic and unconscionable to block a larger project over a very small thing that still receives regular updates as well.

I don't really know what I'll do now. This was really my only plan and I don't even have enough money to pay rent at the end of the month anymore. At this point I'd accept a predatory loan just to stay afloat a while longer.

What depresses me even more is that my mom was right about all the things she had to leave behind at the old house. On her last day, mere hours before she collapsed, she kept talking about how she was sure my "father" had already sold or destroyed all her belongings.

The fact that my lawyer is being ignore whenever the topic of my mom's belongings comes up kind of confirms that to me. Mind you, I'm her only heir and all I have in terms of an inheritance thus far is paying off her debt (which I also can no longer afford to do now).

I'm tired of humanity. I'm tired of a world in which good people always lose because bad people are free to scam, abuse, deny and steal while the rest of us have our hopes and dreams crushed at every turn.

Curious. I'm a small indie game developer who specializes in 2D point and click adventure games. I also love porting ScummVM to new platforms (I'm kinda shocked at how lackluster the FM Towns port of Monkey Island 2 is, compared to the DOS version. Would love to fix that while also enabling other Lucas Arts games to run on FM Towns).

Is there any widespread community interest for new games for the FM Towns? What particular machine would be the best one to target?