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ScummVM

Adventure and RPG preservation project

ScummVM is a game preservation project with a quickly growing code base since more than 20 years. Originally focused on 2D Point&Click adventure games, its scope widened in 2016 to RPG thanks to successful GSoC students and to 3D games in 2020 after the merge with its sister project, ResidualVM. The purpose is only to replace the game executable, not to enhance or replace the game assets.

python
opengl
c++
assembly
sdl

games
game engines
software preservation
software archeology

Project ideas

13 ideas on its 2026 ideas page; of the 13 that state a difficulty: 2 easy, 4 medium, 7 hard. Sizes: 5 medium, 8 large.

Reworking GUI for Touch Devices large hard
Macromedia Director medium medium
Amnesia: The Dark Descent and A Machine for Pigs (HPL2 engine) large hard
Finishing implementation of incomplete engines medium hard
Porting ADL to ScummVM large hard
Porting ACK engine to ScummVM large medium
Porting Ambermoon/Amberstar engine to ScummVM large hard
Porting iBASS engine to ScummVM large medium
Porting Skeldal engine to ScummVM large hard
Bring your own Adventure or RPG Reimplementation (only existing games) large hard
Add Keymapper to more games medium easy
Add Text-to-Speech to more games medium easy
Porting ALIS engine to ScummVM medium medium

Read the ideas page. Ideas are for scope reference; never copy one into a proposal.

History

In GSoC since 2016, 11 years. Projects per year: '16: 3, '17: 2, '18: 3, '19: 3, '20: 4, '21: 5, '22: 3, '23: 4, '24: 2, '25: 5, '26: 4.

On GitHub

10 repositories pushed to in the last year. Main languages: C++ (3), Python (2), C (1), HTML (1), PHP (1), Ruby (1).

Links and channels

Website: https://www.scummvm.org/
Ideas page: https://www.scummvm.org/gsoc-2026-ideas
Contributor guide: https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/GSoC_Application
Source code: https://github.com/scummvm/
Chat: https://discord.gg/4cDsMNtcpG
Mailing list: https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Summer_of_Code/GSoC_Contact

go deeper in your terminal

git-into-gsoc org "ScummVM" --shortlist
git-into-gsoc repos "ScummVM"
git-into-gsoc issues --org "ScummVM"

or ask your assistant:
"Which ScummVM repositories merge
newcomers' pull requests, and which beginner
issues are still free?"

Those commands read live data: which repositories merge outside pull requests, and which beginner issues nobody has claimed. Install in two minutes.