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So cool! How long do you think it will take 'till we can

  apt-get install jedi-games

from a major repository?

Thank you, Raven! It'll be fun to read the code.

Edit: Not sure I ever expected to have a 'jawa' directory on my computer....

Edit2: Just one more gem.

   // Just give him normal pain for a little while

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Forever. They only released the source code without assets.

Well, perhaps someone will create some assets :D

Mandatory plug for freedoom: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&#...

Off the top of my head, I know Heretic and Doom have custom models and textures from the Doomsday guys, I know there is a high res quake texture pack, there is a high res Jedi Knight pack, but none of those include levels / models / sound / etc, so they are all addons to the base games.

Freedoom is the only total conversion of a FOSS'd major game engine with FOSS assets that is actually playable that I know of. If anyone knows another, let me know, I'd love to play them.

I'm not sure, but wouldn't it be possible to get the assets from an original installation of the game ?

Yes, but they're presumably still owned by LucasArts or something along those lines.

Sure, but how would apt handle that? Releasing an apt package with the assets would be copyright infringement.

All ID games suffer from the same problems.

Separate data and engine packages, engine package distributed by Debian, data left as the responsibility of the user. That way the iD games are in debian too.

eg. http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/quake

It could be packaged, without assets, but with an "installer" that prompts for a cd/source to copy from (along the lines of what ttf-mscorefonts-installer does, for instance -- or freecraft[1] for a more similar example: "FreeCraft needs a lot of data (maps and artwork), that can come from WarCraft II CD, or from the FreeCraft Media Project, codename fcmp, that has support for almost all the data present in WarCraft II. (...) WarCraft II is a registered trademark of Blizzard Entertainment.").

[1] http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/dapper/man6/freecraft.6....

The assets are relatively easy to get -- Steam has both games. You could either pay $9.99 for each of the games, or buy the Jedi Knight Collection, which includes Jedi Academy and Outcast, plus the Dark Forces games as well as Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith for $19.99.

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/2103/

Probably not long, considering the Outcast series were a spinoff story, and the community is brimming with assets to re-create players, lightsabers, and maps from the films

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