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{{Short description|Game engine developed by LucasArts}}
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| name = Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion
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| screenshot caption = ''[[Maniac Mansion]]'' (1987) on the [[Commodore 64]], the game for which the SCUMM system was originally designed
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| designers = {{ubl|Aric Wilmunder|[[Chip Morningstar]]|[[Ron Gilbert]]|Brad P. Taylor}}
| developer = [[Lucasfilm Games]]{{efn|Later known as LucasArts.}}
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'''Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion''' ('''SCUMM''') is a video [[game engine]] developed at Lucasfilm Games, later renamed [[LucasArts]], to ease development on their [[graphic adventure game]] ''[[Maniac Mansion]]'' (1987). It was subsequently used as the engine for later [[LucasArts adventure games]] and [[Humongous Entertainment]] games.

It falls somewhere between a game engine and a [[programming language]], allowing designers to create locations, items and dialogue sequences without writing code in the language in which the game [[source code]] ends up. This also allowed the game's script and data files to be [[cross-platform]], i.e., re-used across various [[Platform (computing)|platforms]]. SCUMM is also a host for embedded game engines such as the ''Interactive MUsic Streaming Engine'' ([[iMUSE]]), the ''INteractive Streaming ANimation Engine'' ([[INSANE (software)|INSANE]]), CYST (in-game animation engine), FLEM (places and names object inside a room), and MMUCAS. SCUMM has been released on these platforms: [[3DO Interactive Multiplayer|3DO]], [[Amiga]], [[Apple II]], [[Atari ST]], [[Commodore CDTV|CDTV]], [[Commodore 64]], [[FM Towns]] & [[FM Towns Marty|Marty]], [[classic Mac OS|Macintosh]], [[Nintendo Entertainment System]], [[MS-DOS]], [[Microsoft Windows]], [[Sega CD]] (Mega-CD), and [[TurboGrafx-16]]/PC Engine. Several SCUMM games have been officially and unofficially ported to other systems through use of the [[open-source software|open-source]] [[ScummVM]] software.
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