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

• perfunctory 15y ago
  Does anybody know the name of this game, please?! http://static.arstechnica.com/scummvm-history/scummvm-android.jpg http://static.arstechnica.com/scummvm-history/scummvm-androi...
  • madmoose 15y ago
    It's Gobliiins: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobliiins http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobliiins
    • perfunctory 15y ago
      Thanks. I loved it when I was a kid.
• lusr 15y ago
  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.
  • huskyr 15y ago
    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.
  • yvdriess 15y ago
    Reminded me of another super-coder: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard