xoreos
A reimplementation of BioWare's Aurora engine (and derivatives). Pre-pre-alpha :P (by xoreos)
OpenJK
Community effort to maintain and improve Jedi Academy (SP & MP) + Jedi Outcast (SP only) released by Raven Software (by JACoders)
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| xoreos | OpenJK | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 16 | |
| 1,068 | 1,939 | |
| 0.7% | 1.5% | |
| 5.9 | 8.2 | |
| 20 days ago | 10 days ago | |
| C++ | C++ | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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.
xoreos
Posts with mentions or reviews of xoreos.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-15.
- Xoreos – Reimplementation of the Aurora Engine (Dragon Age, the Witcher etc.)
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GemRB 0.9.1 released! (Life is strength edition)
And let's not forget their next Engine (Aurora) also has an in-progress implementation : https://github.com/xoreos/xoreos/
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what is the dark (technical) side of the game?
If you can read C++, you can read the reimplemented stuff in the xoreos-tools or xoreos itself. There's also a similar reimplementation project just for KotOR, reone.
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Open source re-implementation projects and game clones.
Xoreos - Neverwinter Nights
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.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing xoreos and OpenJK you can also consider the following projects:
OpenLara - Classic Tomb Raider open-source engine
OpenClaw - Reimplementation of Captain Claw (1997) platformer
reone - Game engine capable of running KotOR and TSL
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.
KOTOR_Party_AI_Restorer - An armband mod that can toggle party AI back on
daggerfall-unity - Open source recreation of Daggerfall in the Unity engine
gemrb - GemRB is a portable open-source implementation of Bioware’s Infinity Engine.
K1_Community_Patch - K1 Community Patch
vkQuake - Vulkan Quake port based on QuakeSpasm
xoreos-tools - Tools to help the development of xoreos
REDRIVER2 - Driver 2 Playstation game reverse engineering effort