r/jediknight

🏆 ANNOUNCING: The Jedi Knight 30th Anniversary Level Creation Contest! 🏆

To mark 30 incredible years of Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II, we’re throwing a year-long level building contest for the entire multiplayer community!

🗓️ Deadline: October 9th, 2027 (Jedi Knight's 30th Birthday!)

💵 Starting Prize Pool: $300 (Seeded personally!)

Whether you're a veteran level designer or picking up the editor for the first time, you have 1 full year to build something awesome.

📋 Quick Rules Overview:

• Game: Jedi Knight or Mysteries of the Sith

• Vanilla Compatibility: Maps MUST work on original/vanilla JK or MotS (cannot require OpenJKDF2 or SMITH) so every player can join in on the 30th birthday games!

• Type: Multiplayer maps only (Deathmatch, CTF, KTF, Co-Op, Assault, KOTH)

• Capacity: Must include 32 walk players for big games

• Quality: Must be fully playable and crash-free

• Fresh Starts: Must be a brand new project built from scratch

• AI Policy: AI assistance is allowed, but levels cannot be 100% AI-generated

💰 Become a Judge & Grow the Prize Pot!

Don't build maps but want to get involved? Anyone who donates to the prize pot earns a spot on the judging panel! 100% of donations go directly to the winners:

🥇 1st Place: 50%

🥈 2nd Place: 30%

🥉 3rd Place: 20%

Fire up your editors and let's see what you can create! May the Force be with you! 🌌⚔️

https://discord.gg/E4tYSRvgZ

Hello there !

It's been a while, and I've searched for a long time a community where to share what I've made with this game.

I've been playing this game since its release, and modding it for 19 years !

Basically, what I'm about to share is the fifth installment of my serie (Epic Challenge Mods), but the only one that has a real "Star Wars feel" about it.

It's called "Epic Challenge Mod V : Edge of the Force" : https://jkhub.org/files/file/4446-epic-challenge-mod-v-edge-of-the-force/

"Not long after Jerec's demise, Kyle and his apprentice Mara Jade are sent with Luke Skywalker to investigate a cosmic temple invaded by the remnants of the Empire. But they were unable to understand what they found at this time. They only knew it was a sort of holocron of the Light Side. But today, a cult of the Force called The Order of the Lost Flame is growing, and in a bold move, they have managed to steal the artifact from Luke Skywalker's hands. For the Jedi Order is not what it once was. The temple has burned, many apprentices were killed following a tragic betrayal, and few defenders of the Order and justice in the galaxy remain active. Kyle Katarn is no longer one of them. A lone wanderer, our veteran is now sixty years old. Yet, a vision from the Force puts him back on the path. The galaxy is in danger. One last stand will lead our heroes, along with a new generation, to uncover the truth behind the acquisition of the holocrons—revealed to be forgotten deities of the Force. Past, present, and future are intertwined, and a long, dark journey awaits Kyle, linked to the Clone Wars, higher realities, and many other secrets…"

Enter in a world between old adventure games and Star Wars lore, face cults and golems, and learn to use your new weapons, and force powers (Destruction, Elements).

I have put my hands in the code to improve force powers, create new content, new AI classes. Claude has helped me to settle things, but I was already doing code since the third installment long before the rise of LLMs.

A total of 14 new levels, If I remember correctly.

Teaser of the mod : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnVQ8i7FJkw

Now, some ingame pictures :

https://preview.redd.it/agnfhdjsymth1.png?width=1368&format=png&auto=webp&s=172e9e188b8bda834a1d29252a6860542abdf900

Lizards throwing exploding crystals at you, but you can launch an energy sphere to ripost !

https://preview.redd.it/z5sck7lxymth1.png?width=1363&format=png&auto=webp&s=a9ff0e6d4c5876edc43385e36d2063122d52072d

Facing an Ice Guard in a creepy snowy planet.

https://preview.redd.it/l4e80bpzymth1.png?width=1366&format=png&auto=webp&s=999536873dff8630eb477d43eec5fe2cf02ce383

Talking with your old padawan jaden with some SpaceEngine made sky.

https://preview.redd.it/1nw5dx82zmth1.png?width=1362&format=png&auto=webp&s=177a3194b4cd787df9734aeff2c9033b0bd96b81

Freeing Luke Skywalker from Flame Warriors, a Cult of the Force.

https://preview.redd.it/d0bdzys6zmth1.png?width=1366&format=png&auto=webp&s=e9f65b4c94ab12322862f5000ef4b35625ab79eb