Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy source code released in tribute to LucasArts
While Star Wars games have become increasingly shoddy over the years, they were once consistently pleasing. In memory of the late, great LucasArts, shut down by Disney, Raven has released the source code of two such games from the Jedi Knight series, Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy. If you missed them in the early noughties, they were the first solid ways to have decent multiplayer lightsaber battles.
While Star Wars games have become increasingly shoddy over the years, they were once consistently pleasing. In memory of the late, great LucasArts, shut down by Disney, Raven has released the source code of two such games from the Jedi Knight series, Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy. If you missed them in the early noughties, they were the first solid ways to have decent multiplayer lightsaber battles.
"We loved and appreciated the experience of getting to make Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy for LucasArts," Raven said in a statement provided to Kotaku. "As a gift to the persistently loyal fanbase for our Jedi games and in memory of LucasArts, we are releasing the source code for both games for people to enjoy and play with."
The source code, based upon id Software's Quake III: Team Arena engine, is released under the GNU GPLv2 license for anyone. Given what typically happens when developers release engine source, we can most likely expect to see updated versions with fixes and support for fancy modern graphical effects, at a minimum.
Download the the Jedi Outcast source code here and Jedi Academy's there. Raven does note that it may take some tinkering to get things working with the finished game's assets. Which, by the way, have not been open-sourced, so no, the games are not now free.
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replyAlice O'Connor posted a new article, Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy source code released in tribute to LucasArts.
While Star Wars games have become increasingly shoddy over the years, they were once consistently pleasing. In memory of the late, great LucasArts, shut down by Disney, Raven has released the source code of two such games from the Jedi Knight series, Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy. If you missed them in the early noughties, they were the first solid ways to have decent multiplayer lightsaber battles.-
alright! can't wait to see the incoming mods.
g_saberRealisticCombat for life.-
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That animation was cool.
G_saberrealisticcbat 1
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Yeah, it was super OP at launch.
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I was in one of these. Wrecked face on a daily basis.
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maybe e can fix that now
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I just grabbed Jedi Outcast on Steam so I could play this ladder mod
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I53Dh_28hg again - it's been years since I have.
I actually found the download link for it:
http://www.massassi.net/levels/files/1959.shtml
And I also found the Enyak Multilator mod as well:
http://jediknight3.filefront.com/file/;2173
Will be fucking up some jedi tonight!-
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Oh also, the story goes that they had already done all the work to make the light sabers work like that in the game, cutting stormtroopers in half, but then LucasArts saw it and said "no, we can't have that..." and so they had to go in and disable it. But they left it in there as console command. Sort of thing you could get away with pre-Hot Coffee.
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More JK2 files: http://www.jediknight.net/jk2files/
Looks like most of the subdomains at http://www.jediknight2.net are broken, but if you just add them as a directory they mostly work, depending on how the links were written. -
This looks awesome.
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And the first priority? Make the Storm Troopers look better in the game. For some reason they've always looked odd in Jedi Outcast, Jedi Academy vs. other Star Wars games.
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Get it working with your engine, STAT!!
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