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Adventure / Point-and-Click / Narrative Games

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New SCI decompiler takes all the guesswork out of poking around old Sierra games (youtu.be)
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ScummVM dev Sluicebox just blew the doors to the Sierra kingdom wide open. He wrote a decompiler that annotates the decompiled scripts flawlessly so there's no more guesswork as to "uh, I wonder what 'global34' does."

A real game-changer for code-spelunkers!

Check the attached video from OneShortEye for a brief explanation, or go straight to the source: https://www.benshoof.org/blog/sci-scripts

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