Lord Horrible has sent you on a quest to kill the Queen of Everything, playing the role of the horribly disfigured Phlegmwad you will have the chance to choose how to (not?) fulfill this quest of epic proportions. With great help from game developer Deirdra Kiai and Wintermute developer Jan Nedoma the ScummVM Team is pleased to announce support for our first Wintermute game: [*Chivalry is Not Dead*](http://www.deirdrakiai.com/my-games/). So, download a copy of the game and start playing in the [latest daily build](/downloads/#daily) of ScummVM and help us with testing this open-ended game. How many endings can YOU find? As usual, all bugs should be reported to [our bug tracker](http://bugs.scummvm.org/milestone/Wintermute/). You can find a list of data files in the [data files page](http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Datafiles#Chivalry_is_Not_Dead) on our wiki. Of particular note is the need for a copy of arial.ttf (or a similar replacement, for instance FreeSans from [GNU FreeFont](http://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/).) For further information, check out the [bug submission guidelines](/faq/#question.report-bugs).
You are Jerome Lange, a Bogart clone private eye who's received an invitation from an old friend to join her at Mortville Manor to help with a desperate situation. With a name like Mortville you might suppose something is seriously wrong and, yes, you're right. Your old friend Julia has already departed to Deadsville. So... Who did dunnit? Based on the sources provided by DotEmu and by Lankhor founders and developers, the ScummVM Team is pleased to announce support for France's 1987 Game of the Year: [*Mortville Manor*](http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/mortville-manor). Only the DOS versions are supported, and ScummVM is bringing to you the first DOS English translation. So, grab your disk and copy the files, then start playing using the [latest daily build](/downloads/#daily) of ScummVM and help us testing it. As usual, all bugs should be reported to [our bug tracker](http://bugs.scummvm.org/milestone/Mortville%20Manor/) following our [bug submission guidelines](/faq/#question.report-bugs). While you play through the game, we would also love it if you could take some [screenshots](http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Screenshots) for us.
 For the seventh year in a row, we have been accepted as a Google Summer of Code project. Perhaps it is because both our project and the program have unusual letter casing? The world may never know, but we are thrilled to be accepted again and welcome fellow students to join our team and work on awesome 2D point-and-click adventures. If you are an eligible student for the GSoC and want to contribute to your favorite open-source project, take a look at [our project ideas](http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/GSoC_Ideas), but you always can offer your own. But, please, no Digger support: it's not an adventure!
 We are very excited to announce that we are going to be doing things a little differently this year. In addition to our own participation in Google Summer of Code, ScummVM will also be acting as an umbrella organization for our sister project, [ResidualVM](http://www.residualvm.org/). Both projects will be working hand in hand with students and mentors over the coming months. The first obvious sign of this collaboration can be found in our [merged GSoC ideas page](http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/GSoC_Ideas). So if you're interested in being a GSoC student this year, please take a look at the ideas page and come and talk to us. We love to welcome potential students on IRC and the ScummVM and ResidualVM mailing lists are also splendid places to start! We have a lot of exciting things to suit a range of skillsets and we also warmly welcome task proposals other than those on the list if you feel so inspired!
**Happy April Fools' Day! Much thanks to LordHoto for the *mock* achievement dialog code and for the Hand of Fate and Zak McKracken quotes. Thanks to ST, DrMcCoy, and Strangerke for all their input.** Due to high demand, ScummVM is extremely proud and thrilled to announce the introduction of achievements to various games. Games really have no replay value without achievements, so we hope that our loyal users will enjoy finally being able to play them again the way they've always meant to be played. They're finally ready for the 21st century! The ScummVM team managed to put together a huge list of achievements that we wanted to see in various games, including some not-yet-supported ones. From there, we just plugged in our simple dialog and achievement tracking code, and were able to add it to all engines easily. Soon integration with the forums will be complete and you will be able to share all your achievements there. LordHoto was really excited to work on this feature saying, "This is the coolest feature I've added to The Legend of Kyrandia." "First Steam's achievements came to Linux and now this? Linux gamers should be thrilled for all the achievements they can now earn!" added DrMcCoy. We've gathered up some screenshots of some of our favorite ones: [*Full Throttle* Screenshot](/data/news/20140401_1.png) [*The Legend of Kyrandia: The Hand of Fate* Screenshot](/data/news/20140401_2.png) [*The Curse of Monkey Island* Screenshot](/data/news/20140401_3.png) [*Geisha* Screenshot](/data/news/20140401_4.png) [*Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers* Screenshot 1](/data/news/20140401_5.png) [*Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers* Screenshot 2](/data/news/20140401_6.png) [*Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers* Screenshot 3](/data/news/20140401_7.png) [*Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders* Screenshot](/data/news/20140401_8.png)
**Happy April Fools' Day! Unfortunately, we haven't really got a new developer... though pull requests are welcome!** We do not normally announce new developers here, but we have an unusual and talented developer recently join the team, Edward Snowden. When we first got the e-mail from a dot-ru address which we will not be disclosing, we were skeptical. However upon verifying his PGP key, we are convinced that this is not some kind of April Fools joke and are happy to welcome a talented software developer with enthusiasm to the team. He is apparently a big fan of point and click adventures, especially *Beneath a Steel Sky,*, *Dreamweb*, *Woodruff and the Schnibble of Azimuth*, and *I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream*. His collection allowed him to pass a long stopover at an airport last year and he decided then, once he had sorted some personal issues to get around to contributing some code to ScummVM. As an avid fan of Larry Niven, he will be initially working on the TSaGE support for *Return to Ringworld* along with Strangerke, and will be using the nickname "crazyeddie" Please can we ask the other developers and users not to bother him about any issues outside of ScummVM and not to send any irrelevant e-mails to his ScummVM address at "crazyeddie@scummvm.org" Thanks!
 The accepted Google Summer of Code proposals have been announced yesterday, and we are pleased to say that ScummVM will be mentoring two students, for projects with a Polish theme. *Peter Bozsσ (a.k.a. uruk), who you may remember from last year, will work on an engine (and translation to English) of the Polish game ***Sfinx***. *Lukasz Watka (a.k.a. lukaslw) will work on an engine (and translation to English) of the Polish game ***The Prince and the Coward***. Additionally, ScummVM is acting as an umbrella organisation during GSoC for our sister project ResidualVM. They will be mentoring three students: *Stefano Musumeci (a.k.a. subr3v) will be working on refactoring and optimizing the ***TinyGL software renderer***. *Joni Vδhδmδki (a.k.a. Akz) and Joseph Jezak (a.k.a. JoseJX) will both be working on improving the ***Escape from Monkey Island*** engine, tackling bugs and missing features from two different angles. We expect it will be a productive and interesting summer!
After more than two years since the original freeware release, the ScummVM Team is announcing an update for the *Dreamweb* packages. Thanks to the work of Simon Sawatzki we have the game manuals as well as the *Diary of a (Mad?) Man* available in text and HTML format for the majority of our releases, so you can use your preferred text-to-speech program to read them as your bedtime story. All releases now include these documents and are marked as version 1.1. Of course, the previously available high resolution scans will stay on the download page as well. Additionally we have taken the opportunity to release the Italian version of the game. All packages can be downloaded from our [Games page](/games/#dreamweb).
Or, the "Better late than never" announcement. It was pointed out to me today that although we merged Voyeur into the master branch some months ago, we never actually called for an official testing period. So this announcement seeks to remedy that. Take on the role of a private investigator. A powerful CEO with aspirations for the presidency has invited his family to his home for the weekend. There are suspicions of corruption, and you've been hired to find out his secrets, and determine just what he's hiding. The ScummVM Team is proud to announce that [Voyeur](http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/voyeur) is now playable in ScummVM using the latest [daily builds](/downloads/#daily), and ready for testing. As usual, all bugs should be reported to [our bug tracker](http://bugs.scummvm.org/) following our [bug submission guidelines](/faq/#question.report-bugs). While you play through the game, we would also love it if you could take some [screenshots](http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Screenshots) for us.
The forthcoming 1.7.0 release of ScummVM is almost here! This time around, we have a total of five newly supported games: **Chivalry Is Not Dead* **Mortville Manor* **Return to Ringworld* **The Neverhood* **Voyeur* But before we can release the latest and greatest version of ScummVM, we need help testing out all these new games. Besides the aforementioned new games for this release, the DOS floppy versions of *Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade* and *Loom*, require testing running with our AdLib emulator. You can always check out which games still need testing on [our wiki](http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Release_Testing/1.7.0). There are also a few other old classics on that list that could use another run through. A [daily build](/downloads/#daily) is all that is required to get started. If you happen to find any bugs, please report them on the [bug tracker](http://bugs.scummvm.org/). After completing one of the games, please let us know on [the forums](http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=13639) so we can post the results up on the [wiki page](http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Release_Testing/1.7.0). Be sure to follow our guidelines for release testing, which can be found [on the wiki](http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Release_Testing) as well. And while you play through these newly supported games, please submit some [screenshots](http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Screenshots)!
