Thanks for your support!
As of today, I have finished recoding 23 scripts, and only have three more to finish recoding. All three are mostly recoded, and just need some touching up! I should be able to release the template game binary tomorrow or the next day. The first release will just be the binaries, no sources, as I still need to document it and clean the code up. I don't want to release a messy template that no one can understand. Most of the variables names are still temp123 or local245

I've had nothing but support from those I've talked to who worked at Sierra. This includes all the authors of the most popular games, and some others.
AGI Studio and SCI Studio are far easier to use than Sierra's original tools. For example, Sierra wrote their scripts in generic text editors like notepad, and used a DOS command line compiler to compile them every time.
You'll be making SCI games VERY VERY soon!