OpenJK
Community effort to maintain and improve Jedi Academy (SP & MP) + Jedi Outcast (SP only) released by Raven Software (by JACoders)
dxx-rebirth
Descent-Rebirth and Descent II-Rebirth (by dxx-rebirth)
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| OpenJK | dxx-rebirth | |
|---|---|---|
| 16 | 38 | |
| 1,937 | 457 | |
| 1.4% | 3.9% | |
| 8.2 | 9.7 | |
| 10 days ago | 5 days ago | |
| C++ | C++ | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
OpenJK
Posts with mentions or reviews of OpenJK.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-08.
- Microsoft could cram more ads into Windows 11 – this time in the Settings app | Recent moves with the Start menu are now being echoed within the Settings panel in testing
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JK-XR: Outcast - The Standalone VR port of Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
JK XR is a VR port of the Jedi Knight games using OpenXR (the open standard for virtual and augmented reality devices) and is based on the excellent OpenJK port, originally forked from: https://github.com/JACoders/OpenJK
- What old video game would you like to see get a remake or a sequel?
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Available on MacBook?
Although you'll probably need to install OpenJK anyway afterwards.
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Jedi Academy: Enhanced v1.1 Trailer - While you wait for JEDI: Survivor, check out lots of customization options, Force Powers and even lightsaber dismemberment option for Jedi Academy
It's still active.
- When I was a kid, I imagined the sequels would be something like that. Oh well...
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[Prime Gaming/Twitch Prime] Prime Day: Mass Effect Legendary Edition (Origin), Need for Speed Heat (Origin), GRID Legends (Origin), STAR WARS Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy, STAR WARS Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast, STAR WARS Republic Commando (Included with Amazon Prime/Prime Gaming membership)
Pro tip the source code was released a few years ago and some fans made some updates: https://github.com/JACoders/OpenJK you only need to download the files from Amazon and then execute from the openjk to enjoy the game fully on modern systems, works with mods too.
- Vanilla or mods?
- ELI5 What are all the Microsoft Visual C++ 20005, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2015-2019... different versions currently on my Windows computer for?
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New @ Steam
There's the OpenJK engine for those. Same way people can play them on the Pi.
dxx-rebirth
Posts with mentions or reviews of dxx-rebirth.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-11.
- Descent: A classic 3-D first-person shooter (2012)
- Show HN: Play Descent I from 1995 in the browser
- PC Ports, Decompilations, Remakes, Demakes, Fan Games, Conversion Mods, Texture Packs!
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Descent was WAY ahead of its time. First fully 3D FPS ever made.
And that's the first level of Descent. :) I literally just started a brand-new game yesterday of Descent. DX-Rebirth.
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32-bit software on a 64-bit OS
Find a remake of the game ported to a modern engine. https://www.dxx-rebirth.com/ appears to be a port of Descent 1 and 2 to the Source engine. It won't help with you running the 3DFX version, of course, but this might actually be better?
- What old video game would you like to see get a remake or a sequel?
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One of the best multiplayers I grew up on.
I loved this game. You can still play it with DXX Rebirth
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Does anyone know if the physical expansions work on the Steam versions?
I would look at DXX rebirth, https://www.dxx-rebirth.com even if you just want to add the expansions to your steam version, you should be able to use its instructions to add the levels to your version.
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Do native Linux Games that are listed as unsupported on Steam Deck still run?
Descent 2 - so long since I last played any Descent game I forgot how the experience was, but hey there's a source port!
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What dial up sounded like
Or if you still want to play the originals, the DXX Rebirth mods also make it easy to play on modern computers!
What are some alternatives?
When comparing OpenJK and dxx-rebirth you can also consider the following projects:
OpenClaw - Reimplementation of Captain Claw (1997) platformer
crispy-doom - Crispy Doom is a limit-removing enhanced-resolution Doom source port based on Chocolate Doom.
OpenRA - Open Source real-time strategy game engine for early Westwood games such as Command & Conquer: Red Alert written in C# using SDL and OpenGL. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD and Mac OS X.
Cortex-Command-Community-Project-Source - [ARCHIVED] Cortex Command - Open Source under GNU AGPL v3 (no game data included)
daggerfall-unity - Open source recreation of Daggerfall in the Unity engine
cdogs-sdl - Classic overhead run-and-gun game
OpenLara - Classic Tomb Raider open-source engine
OpenTESArena - Open-source re-implementation of The Elder Scrolls: Arena.
vkQuake - Vulkan Quake port based on QuakeSpasm
etlegacy - ET: Legacy is an open source project based on the code of Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory which was released in 2010 under the terms of the GPLv3 license.
REDRIVER2 - Driver 2 Playstation game reverse engineering effort
UnderworldExporter - Updated Release 27th Oct 2018 Unity based port of Ultima Underworld I and II. Download under releases
OpenJK vs OpenClaw
dxx-rebirth vs crispy-doom
OpenJK vs OpenRA
dxx-rebirth vs Cortex-Command-Community-Project-Source
OpenJK vs daggerfall-unity
dxx-rebirth vs cdogs-sdl
OpenJK vs OpenLara
dxx-rebirth vs OpenTESArena
OpenJK vs vkQuake
dxx-rebirth vs etlegacy
OpenJK vs REDRIVER2
dxx-rebirth vs UnderworldExporter