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Any chance of a release on other retro platforms? Would love to have this on Amiga or Sega Genesis. Would gladly help porting it there, too (I'm a software engineer/game designer myself).

A couple days ago I saw an archived Reddit post from what looked like ScummVM devs talking about the situation.

I'd love to know more myself. And yes, it would open tremendous possibilities.

Multiple console ports have been made with ScummVM, AFAIK. The Humongous game ports come to mind.

Anyhow. To this day ScummVM team members claim that they offered NightDive a way to relicense, for a fee they thought reasonable.

Apparently, even for those. The ScummVM team offered a proprietary license to Nightdive when they remastered Blade Runner. Nightdive refused, unfortunately.

ScummVM can be used commercially

I created an unofficial Mac port of the demo. The .dmg is a bit broken unfortunately (no background image, unlike in the screenshot on my site) but I'm fixing that soon.

The demo currently only works on Intel Macs with MacOS 10.13 and up (it might work through Rosetta 2 on Apple Silicon. I don't have a device to test it though).

I'm releasing a universal binary for MacOSX 10.9 (Intel) and up and MacOS 11 (Apple Silicon) and up respectively soon.

https://markusbkk.github.io/Gobliiins5-MacDemo/

I contacted you on Kickstarter. If you need some additional expertise, I'm here. I already got a working MacOS build (still finetuning it though. Had some issues with the background image in the .dmg file and it currently only runs on MacOS 10.13 and up, and only on Intel Macs. I can  get it to work on Apple Silicon and even the old PPC models though)

Walk behinds are one of the weaknesses of AGS. It's incredibly difficult to use the paint tool, so I'm not surprised.

I spent more time bundling this than I spent hacking on ScummVM, but hopefully this should work and not run into any installation issues.

https://markusbkk.github.io/Gobliiins5-MacDemo/

Oui, ça peut absolument fonctionner sous GNU/Linux.
Cela pourrait aussi fonctionner sur Amiga ;=)

Hi Lebostein (is that the same Lebostein from Adventure Treff? If so, I inboxed you again. ;=) )

Yea. The game runs pretty well on Mac. Just a minor script bug due to different engine versions.

I'm almost done building an app bundle for the demo version.

I hope Pierre gets back to my Kickstarter message. This game has so much potential and would make a great game on consoles, too.

Talking about bugs, I ran into plenty on ScummVM's end when trying to bundle the game.

I don't think the documentation is up to snuff in that regard. It says that, on Mac, to drop the game files into "MyGame.app/Contents/Resources/game". That didn't work for me. I ended up having to create a scummvm-autorun file in the Resources folder and hardcode the path to "/Applications/MyGame.app".

Furthermore, the preferences are always saved as "~/Library/Preferences/ScummVM Preferences", no matter what change the bundle identifier in the Info.plist to.

That being said, I'm almost done with a first version of the MacOS demo app bundle. Gonna upload it tomorrow, once I have an icon for it and tested it on another Mac.

Would be great if Pierre saw that and picked up my work so we could have an official Mac build.

Here's a short playthrough of the demo in ScummVM, btw. After I commented out two lines to sidestep the Character.Animate repeat issue.

It would be better to either fix the scripting bug (RepeatStyle should be either 0 or 1, no other value) or add an exemption based on game_id.

Just ignoring it altogether, for every game, can lead to bugs, memory leaks or segmentation faults.

There are these tools to read/write TRA files like the one that ships with Gobliiins 5, although that's very unofficial.

https://github.com/Taktloss/AGS_TranslationEditor
https://github.com/Jibun/ags-translation-editor

Surprisingly, an Amiga version should be possible. Although it would require a fairly beefy Amiga with an accelerator and additional RAM.

I'm almost through with the demo on MacOS High Sierra, using ScummVM (haven't tried the official AGS runtime and I think ScummVM would be a better way to port the game to even older platforms as well as consoles)

There's one little bug in the script that required me to recompile ScummVM with a Character.Animate check in the AGS engine disabled. Otherwise it seems to work fine.

Would love to help porting this game, as well.

https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/blob/842a52fd42c23d0290af768bf2593634008467ba/engines/ags/engine/ac/character.cpp#L168

The relevant line in ScummVM.
I'll take a look at it for you.

Will report back once I've found a workaround (although this looks like a coding mistake on Pierre's part, maybe. Been a while since I messed with the AGS engine. RN, I work on reviving ScummC, so that maybe one day people can develop another game with a SCUMM compatible engine).

EDIT: I simply commented out the if-statement, recompiled ScummVM and restarted the game. No error message thus far.
My suspicion is that the AGS engine inside ScummVM is somewhat more strict than the default Windows AGS interpreter and that Pierre set an animation value that is out of bounds for the AGS engine inside ScummVM.