Robert Ripley, a famous traveler and collector of rarities. One day, during a trip in Egypt, Ripley is attacked by mysterious Chinese assassins. The trail will lead him and his Chinese girlfriend Mei Chen on a chase around the world, in a race against time to prevent the greatest theft of all time, the First Emperor's seal, which could plunge the world into chaos.

The ScummVM Team is pleased to announce full support for Ripley's Believe It Or Not! The Secret of Master Lu, the other classic game, besides Orion Burger, by Sanctuary Woods. As with Orion Burger, it adds a few niceties that the original didn't have, such as mouse wheel handling, and using the spacebar to skip walk animations.

Help us test the game by grabbing a daily build. Read through our testing guidelines. The game's logic was all hardcoded, and proved even more complicated than that of Orion Burger, so we really need people to try all sorts of weird actions, and make sure the game handles everything correctly and matches the original implementation. And please take some screenshots along the way.

Good luck. If you fail to prevent the seal falling into evil hands, it could be used to unite all Asia under a single ruler, thirsty for conquest.

Are you ready for more sleuthing with everyone’s favorite teenage detective? We’re excited to announce that Nancy Drew: Secret of the Scarlet Hand and Nancy Drew: Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake are now ready for public testing! Furthermore, it's now possible to enable the ScummVM save/load screens instead of the original ones, to take advantage of additional features when saving or loading.

In Nancy Drew: Secret of the Scarlet Hand, Nancy takes on the role of an intern at a Washington D.C. museum, where a mysterious theft sets off a series of clues leading deep into the secrets of ancient Maya artifacts.

In Nancy Drew: Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake, Nancy finds herself investigating a haunted cabin surrounded by eerie howls and ghostly canine apparitions.

The games are available for purchase through HeR Interactive’s website or Steam. Or if you already own a CD copy of the games, their English and Russian variants will also work. To play them with ScummVM, you will need a daily development build. As always, if you encounter any issues, please submit a bug report to our issue tracker.

This is yet another exciting year for the ScummVM project as we have five GSoC contributors joining the project this summer.

• Ellen Moon will be continuing work on adding Text-to-Speech to more engines. This will increase accessibility for those games that were missing voice-overs. This task will be presented on Ellen's GSoC blog.

• Aun Noman (known as Prime) will, at the same time, be adding Keymapper to the remaining engines. Only about 45% of ScummVM-supported engines have this feature. The current list can be found on our Wiki. And the relevant task blog will eventually be hosted at Aun's GSoC blog

• Malhar Badve (aka SuperLemon) is our Director contributor for this year. He has already added more improvements to QTVR, but our overall hope for this year is to add movie saving capability, which is required by many titles. You will be able to follow the progress for this task on Malhar’s GSoC blog.

• Shivang Nagta will pick up work on a system for verifying game file integrity, validating their checksums against those present in a central database. It will also let users contribute the checksums of game files not on the database. You can follow the progress for this task on Shivang’s GSoC blog.

• Alikhan Balpykov will help us with completing the qdEngine implementation this year. You can follow the progress for this task on Alikhan GSoC blog.

Please give them a warm welcome, and visit our Discord server if you want to discuss those projects. After a four week Community Bounding period, the coding period will start on June 2, and you can expect regular updates on these projects on their respective blogs. The team is very excited about the upcoming summer – and we hope you are as well.

Siamo entusiasti di annunciare che i giochi di avventura classici della Dynamix The Adventures of Willy Beamish e Heart of China sono pronti per la fase di test pubblica!

Nell'omonimo titolo, Willy Beamish, impersoni un monello di nove anni che abita a Frumpton, USA. Non vuoi fare altro che giocare al Nintari e ritrovarti con gli amici, ma i tuoi genitori continuano ad assegnarti compiti... e come se non bastasse, delle potenti forze oscure e sinistre aleggiano nella tua cittadina. Non avrai un attimo di respiro!

In Heart of China inizi l'avventura nel ruolo di Jake "Lucky" Masters, un aviatore della prima guerra mondiale, in congedo. Dopo una diatriba con il manager E.A. Lomax a Hong Kong, spinto dal tuo senso del dovere (e da una montagna di debiti!) decidi di aiutarlo a ritrovare la sua figlia rapita. Affronta una trama a persorsi multipli con tre personaggi giocabili, risolvi i puzzle e riporta Kate a casa.

Questi due giochi, insieme al precedentemente annunciato Rise of the Dragon, completano il ristretto gruppo di giochi Dynamix che utilizzano il motore DGDS.

Per testare questi titoli, avrai bisogno delle versioni DOS (entrambi sono disponibili su GOG) e un daily build di sviluppo. Assicurati di dare un'occhiata alla wiki per informazioni aggiuntive, e per favore segnala eventuali malfunzionamenti al nostro bugtracker.

Dark Seed, un'avventura horror punta-e-clicca anni '90, con la direzione artistica di H.R. Giger, è pronto per la fase di test pubblica!

In questo gioco impersoni Mike Dawson, un aspirante scrittore che si è appena trasferito in una bellissima villa isolata. Presto ti accorgerai che il luogo nasconde oscuri segreti, e avrai solo tre giorni di tempo per sfuggire a un destino peggiore della morte...

Sono supportate le versioni DOS floppy e CD. Il motore supporta anche le traduzioni in Spagnolo, Francese, Tedesco, Coreano e Cinese.

Attualmente la versione floppy è priva di effetti sonori, ma tutte le altre funzionalità dovrebbero essere presenti.

Se possiedi entrambe le versioni, il motore dispone di un'opzione per riprodurre la musica ("teoricamente" migliore) della versione floppy anche quando giochi la versione CD.

Per partecipare al test, procurati una daily build di sviluppo. Come sempre, ti invitiamo a segnalare eventuali malfunzionamenti al nostro bugtracker.