Game engines

This is a list of known game engines

Before Diving in
The LGASVM tab tracks the Likelihood of an engine getting added ScummVM. This tab is here because ScummVM is the main active engine recreation project (there's almost no other project like it)
The LGASVM tab is broken down like this High: has a high chance of getting added because it has many high profile games, as wells as, many games that don't break rules and polices of ScummVM. Low: The chance of this engine getting added to ScummVM is low Medium: While these engines may not take top priority, there is a good chance of it getting added. None: These engines will likely never get added ScummVM.
The following letters denotes: A: The engine was use mostly for adult games that brake ScummVM's rules and/or policies B: Under ScummVM's current rules, and/or polices, this engine will never get added C: Circa D: The engines no longer being developed and/or has been discontinued E: The engine (as far as anyone can tell) is still being maintained and/or developed by the engine developer. G: This engine will never get added because it doesn't suit ScummVM's current project goals. H: The engine has historic significance. N: The engine lacks notable games T: The engine is too new to benefit from a engine recreation.

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Engines

Name	Released	LGASVM	Letters	NOG	Description, SVM Support & Other Recreation Projects
Atlas	1994	High	HD	47+	Developed by Davidson & Associates, It was used make many kids games and oddities like What's Her Face!, Superstar Rivals and the 2002 adaptation of American Idol. It place in Video game history is in edutainment, Atlas was used to make entries in classic franchises like the Davidson's Learning Center series, Blaster series, and the JumpStart series. it was used to make quite a few Fisher-Price games as well.
CineActive	1995c	Medium	D	3+	An engine developed by Peter Marx for FMV games. There are only three game currently known to of used this engine: Terror T.R.A.X.: Track of the Vampire, Johnny Mnemonic and the windows version of Capcom's Fox Hunt.
ExEn	2000	None	GD	125+
Magnus	????	Low	D	14	Engine developed by Ivanoff Interactive A/S.
Mascot Capsule	2001	None	GD	600
Mophun	2002	None	GD	310+
Mugen	1999	None	G
OpenBOR	2005	None	G
Ren'Py	2004	Low	E
Titan	????	Low	D	22	Titan was developed by Compedia, They used this engine to make under thirty educational games, before moving to Macromedia Director for all their games.
Unity	2005	Low	E

Visual Novel engines

Main article: The Visual Novel Problem

Name	Released	LGASVM	NOG	Letters	Description, SVM Support & Other Recreation Projects
ADV98V	1991c	Low	70	AHD	An engine designed for the PC-98 series of computers.
ADVIZ	1992c	None	7+	BHD	An engine developed for the PC-98.
AGS	1993	None	6	BHD	This is not that AGS, it a much older engine developed by C's Ware for the PC-98 that was use to make 90s classics like Eve ~Burst Error~, Desire and Love Potion. these games are some of the most impotent games in video game history, with of them being some of, if not, the first visual novels to get an English translation.
AI \ AI4	1989	None	80	BHD	Custom engines designed for the PC-98 series of computers used to make some of the earliest games made by the ELF Corporation.
AI5	1991c	Low	20+	AD	An engine designed for DOS, PC-98, FM Towns and the Sharp X68000.
AVG32	1993c	Low	25+	AHD	Although it's unknown how many games were made with AVG32, the engine was vary popular with 90s VN developers. This engine was used to make classics like Air, Kanon and Gakuen Heaven.
BlueGale	2003	None	8	BND	A custom engine developed by and named after BlueGale, a developer of adult visual novels.
CatSystem	1998	Low	100+	AD
CodeX RScrip	2002	Low	70	EA	Custom engine developed and used by Liar-soft.
Comic Maker	1998c	Medium	180+	D	This hard to research engine was mainly used by dōjin developers, an engine recreation would help preserve many Japanese indie games.
Director	1985	Added	160+	HD	While ScummVM has support for Macromedia Director, there is no official support for almost all of the VN's made with Director and there likely never will be, even when the versions of Director they run on are supported. there are roughly less then 15 VN's that fit their rules and policies If you want an unfiltered look at visual novels currently work in ScummVM, you can go to the Director Database for that info.
Ethornell \ BGI	2004	Medium	90+	E
Hot Soup Processor	1994	Medium	35	EH	HSP is a scripting language popular in Japan. its unlikely to get added to ScummVM because of the 35 visual novels made with it (since almost all of them have adult content) It would get added to preserve Japanese indie game history, dōjin titles and the many school projects made with HSP, that said, games made HSP are poorly documented \ archived,so a lot more research would be needed before it could be added.
Interheart FPK	1999	None	4	BD	A custom engine developed by Interheart that was used to make a few of their games.
KaGuYa	2001	None	55	B	Named after the company that develop it, this engine is used by almost every game by Atelier Kaguya.
KiriKiri	1998	High	3500+	HD	One of the most widely use used engines, It has been used make classics like Fate/stay night, Witch on the Holy Night, 1999ChristmasEve and many other gems.
LiveMaker	2003	High	1100+	HD	Mostly used by indie devs, it was to make dōjin classics like Shigatsu Youka, Dear My Abyss and Lemures Blue no Gozen 2 Ji. this
Main System	2002	Low	5	AD	An engine almost entirely only used by BL game developer, Vivid Color.
Majiro Script Engine	2004	Low	118	AD
Malie	2001	Low	56	AD
MAPL	1995	None	30	BD
N2System	2003	Low	12	AHD	A custom engine developed by Nitroplus, it was used for many visual novel classics such as CHAOS;HEAD, Steins;Gate, and DRAMAtical Murder.
NScripter	1999	High	1100+	HD	Widely used by both commercial and dōjin developers. NScripter gave us classics like Ever17, Kurai Nichiyoubi, Memories Off 2nd and the When They Cry series (Ciconia, Higurashi, Umineko)
QLIE	2005c	None	68	BD
RealLive	2001	Medium	100+	D	The successor to AVG32, it was used to make of the genres most well known classics such as Little Busters, Clannad, & Planetarian
SaiSys	2000	None	60+	BD	A custom engine made by Aqua House and used by them and their subsidiaries.
Shiina Rio	2000	Low	150+	AH	An engine developed by Foster and used by WillPlus and their subsidiaries,
System	1988	Low	150+	AH	Dating all the way back to 1988. Every game AliceSoft has made runs on a version of this engine. They currently use System 4.x to develop their games. While they have released some all ages games, most aren't, so the chance they will add support for this engine is low and if they do add support, its unlikely they will any version beyond version 1.0, aka, the historic version that put AliceSoft on the map.
System-98	1993	None	11	BHD	A custom engine made by Excellents for the PC-98 and used by them and their subsidiaries.
System-NNN	2000	Low	110	AD
TMR-Hiro ADV System	2005	None	25	E
TyranoScript	2015	None	3000+	ET	TyranoBuilder is an engine designed for making visual novels.
Wolf RPG Editor	1998	Medium	140+	E
YU-RIS	2001c	Low	400+	E

VN Engine Ports

Engine	REL	LGASVM	NOG	Description
WADVIZ	1997c	None-B	9+	The Windows 9x port of the ADVIZ engine
AI5Win	1997c	Low-A	25+	The Windows 9x port of the AI5 engine

Engines Added to ScummVM

Name	Released	Support	Description
Access	1991c	Decent
ADL	1980	Good
Adventure Game Studio	1997	Decent
AGI	1984	Good
AGOS	1989	Decent
Composer	1995	Good
Cryomni3D \ Cryo	1995	Low
DGDS	1990	Low
Director	1985	Low
Freescape	1987	Decent
Glk	????	Good
Gob	1990c	Decent
GrimE	1998	Decent
Groovie	1993	Decent
Hadesch	1998	Low
HDB	2001	Good
Hopkins	1998	Good
Hugo	1990	Good
Hypno	1995	Decent
Illusions	1997	Low
Kingdom	1995	Decent
Kyra	1991	Decent
Legend	1990	Preliminary	ScummVM git fork
MADE	1992	Decent
Mohawk	1993	Decent
MADS \ M4	1992	Low
mTropolis	1995	Low
Nancy	1996	Low
QdEngine	????	Decent
Ring	1999	Preliminary	ScummVM git fork
SAGA	1994	Decent
SCI	1988	Decent
SCUMM	1987	Decent
SLUDGE	2003	Preliminary
Tetraedge	2001	Low
Tinsel	1995	Decent
TsAGE	1992	Low
Ultima	Various	Low
Wintermute	2003	Low
Yaga	2002	Preliminary

Also See

Game engine recreations and source ports

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