We are a little late at covering this, but following the less than cheery news that Disney had closed down the venerable LucasArts in favour of licensing out their famous franchises to other developers instead, Raven Software has decided to actually make something good of this and as such has now released the source code to Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy under Version 2 of the GNU General Public License.
Both games were based off the already free Quake III engine and were also likely to run reasonably well with WINE, but it is of course nice to be able to have them potentially run natively through a source port, as well as all the opportunities this allows for hobbyist developers and modders. The source code for both of the games was uploaded to Sourceforge and can be found here and here. There is also already work on a proper source port entitled OpenJK which can be found here.
I have never actually played these particular games myself, but I have played some of the earlier games in the same series and found them to be enjoyable. So here is hoping that we can all experience some Jedi goodness once some of the ports start to mature. It does also make me wonder if we are going to see more source code releases out of Raven, such as for the Soldier of Fortune or Elite Force games. One can always hope... Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Both games were based off the already free Quake III engine and were also likely to run reasonably well with WINE, but it is of course nice to be able to have them potentially run natively through a source port, as well as all the opportunities this allows for hobbyist developers and modders. The source code for both of the games was uploaded to Sourceforge and can be found here and here. There is also already work on a proper source port entitled OpenJK which can be found here.
I have never actually played these particular games myself, but I have played some of the earlier games in the same series and found them to be enjoyable. So here is hoping that we can all experience some Jedi goodness once some of the ports start to mature. It does also make me wonder if we are going to see more source code releases out of Raven, such as for the Soldier of Fortune or Elite Force games. One can always hope... Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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