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.]] SCUMM stands for '''Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion''' and is a scripting language developed at LucasArts (known at the time as Lucasfilm Games) to ease development of the graphical Adventure Game '' Maniac Mansion ''. It is somewhere between a , Amiga , Apple II , Atari ST , CDTV , Commodore 64 , Fujitsu Towns & Marty , Apple Macintosh , NES , MS-DOS / PC-DOS , Microsoft Windows , Sega Mega CD , and TurboGrafx-16 / PC Engine . HISTORY The original version was coded by Aric Wilmunder and Ron Gilbert in 1987 , with later versions enhanced by Aric Wilmunder (a.k.a. the ''SCUMM Lord'') and various others. SCUMM was subsequently reused in many later LucasArts adventure games being both updated and rewritten several times. There are at least 10 known versions of the SCUMM engine, numbered as "version 0" (for the original Commodore 64 version of Maniac Mansion), "version 1", "version 1.5" (for the NES version of Maniac Mansion), and "version 2" up through "version 8". LucasArts finally abandoned the SCUMM engine in 1998 when they switched to GrimE for the game '' Grim Fandango ''. DESIGN Most SCUMM games feature a Verb-object Design Paradigm . The player-controlled character has an inventory, and the game world is littered with objects with which the player can interact, using a variety of verbs — a large collection of these featured in the early games, but by '' The Curse Of Monkey Island '' these had been whittled down to "Look at", "Use" (which was context sensitive and could produce various actions — Pick up, push, pull, etc.) and "Talk to". Puzzles generally involve using the right verb action with the appropriate object — "use biscuit cutter with another rubber tree", for example. "Talk to" produces dialogue sequences, in which the player selects from a list of pre-defined questions or comments, and the character they are talking to replies with a pre-defined response. The notable exception to this general paradigm is '' LOOM '', which does not use the standard verb/object paradigm, but does feature dialogue sequences. VERSIONS Version 0
Version 1
Version 1.5
Version 2
Version 3
Version 4
Version 5
Note: The IMUSE technology was first implemented in this version of SCUMM. Also at this point, the SCUMM system branched off when developer Ron Gilbert licensed it for use in the games created by his company, Humongous Entertainment . The SCUMM system continued to grow there on a separate track up to version 11. Version 6
Version 7
Version 8 TODAY ScummVM is an Open Source project to make a free, portable, SDL library based, C++ coded SCUMM engine client. This allows many of the SCUMM engine games to be played on systems where the original versions will not work or have trouble operating including modern Windows systems, Macintosh , GNU/Linux , PalmOS , PocketPC , Sega Dreamcast , Xbox , Playstation 2 , Playstation Portable , and Nintendo DS platform. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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