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Is the JKhub dying?
2010-04-24, 8:38 AM #1
I visit the sister website from time to time and it looks like a ghost town. Is the JK realm all together dying?

:(
He who controls the spice controls the universe-
2010-04-24, 8:40 AM #2
nah, Star Wars as a whole is dying, until Lucas releases all 6 in 3D and another generation of dumb teenagers buys into his marketing
2010-04-24, 8:51 AM #3
JK is from 1997
2010-04-24, 8:56 AM #4
Well, TODOA's subtitle was "The JK Project To End All JK Projects OR Prove Me Wrong"

So yeah, JK's been dead for years and people are focusing their necrophiliac needs elsewhere.

When I started working on (what became) TODOA around July 2008, there were still a handful of people (Xzero and SM_Sith_Lord to name a few) working on relatively many JK projects but by the time it was released there was only... well, me and the contest editors (most of them had just jumped onboard for one final last JK editing attempt in September anyhow).

Last time I checked, #jkhub only had people talking about Left for Dead 2 or haxing, Zeq being a braindead yak, lucky_jackpot popping in now and then (:) :D) and various ping timeouts.
Star Wars: TODOA | DXN - Deus Ex: Nihilum
2010-04-24, 9:04 AM #5
Thats what I was wondering about, my project is almost finished (It will never top TODOA thats for sure) will never get a chance for a release or there will not be any community to take a glance at it. I know that JK is antiquated, but this will be my last creation from JK, and the project that Im making now since 2007 has dragged out too long and was not to be so large in the first place.:(
He who controls the spice controls the universe-
2010-04-24, 9:29 AM #6
Well, I always knew TODOA was going to have a miniscule audience but I still went through it since I figured out that if I had never finished any of my numerous endless JK projects I would have ended up reviving them again in a few years. I doubt the remnants of the editing community are going to last that long.

So you better finish what you have started. I'll surely be around to play it, I'd have to rig JK up for Windows 7 first, though... *shivers*
Star Wars: TODOA | DXN - Deus Ex: Nihilum
2010-04-24, 9:36 AM #7
*shrug* Ogel?
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2010-04-24, 9:46 AM #8
Don't forget OGEL'S ****IN' CITY, *****.
2010-04-24, 10:25 AM #9
This is what happens over a decade later, lol
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2010-04-24, 10:55 AM #10
I don't think it's great that JK's dying, I don't think it's bad, it's just inevitable, and not in some sort of sorrowful way... it just makes complete sense that after this much time, interest would wane. I don't get why this comes as a surprise to some.
2010-04-24, 11:00 AM #11
Its a surprise to me that JK has been around this long, I knew that its going to die some time, but I wish that I could of indulged myself in its realm a little sooner. Oh well thats life.
He who controls the spice controls the universe-
2010-04-24, 11:07 AM #12
Originally posted by FastGamerr:
TODOA


As a side note, TODOA is pretty dope, but on the 2nd level my game always crashes whenever I try to enter a room that proceeds to the rest of the level. It saddens me.
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2010-04-25, 1:03 AM #13
More like TODOA is dopefish

[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v215/garosaon/Dopefish.png]

But uh, anyhow, what room exactly? After or before the amazing turnable catwalk?
Star Wars: TODOA | DXN - Deus Ex: Nihilum
2010-04-25, 7:29 AM #14
Quote:
Well, TODOA's subtitle was "The JK Project To End All JK Projects OR Prove Me Wrong"


MDatDY mate :P
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2010-04-25, 7:56 AM #15
I still wish there was a better way to navigate JKHub...
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2010-04-25, 8:05 AM #16
I still play JK a few times each month & would probably play any new project that's released.
? :)
2010-04-25, 8:25 AM #17
I miss the hub :(
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2010-04-25, 8:38 AM #18
Everything dies, so yes it's dying.

Question is, does it matter? It will die when it is time for it to die. It's not like it'll contract internet cancer and die before its time.
2010-04-25, 12:53 PM #19
Originally posted by Goit:
MDatDY mate :P


I don't really count the contest levels, they started production before TODOA was finished and at one point they were meant to be released first anyhow.

(Then again it's just a silly subtitle anyhow but I'll keep my hopes up for a TODOA KILLER... wink wink... nudge nudge..)
Star Wars: TODOA | DXN - Deus Ex: Nihilum
2010-04-25, 1:08 PM #20
Originally posted by Cool Matty:
It's not like it'll contract internet cancer and die before its time.


What is #nar if not a cancer?
2010-04-25, 1:26 PM #21
Originally posted by FastGamerr:
I don't really count the contest levels, they started production before TODOA was finished and at one point they were meant to be released first anyhow.


I started it when the contest was announced. Three months baby. Just because you took years. Count it boy.

Everytime you pop up trying to say your level was.. the what? - "The JK Project To End All JK Projects OR Prove Me Wrong" - I always pop up. Ha :D
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2010-04-25, 1:48 PM #22
But the point of the subtitle is to emphasize that the chances of anyone making a JK project as overambitious as TODOA are slimmer than ever. For instance, there were a lot more folks around editing JK in 2008 (when I started the A/TODOA stuff) than there are now. And JK's corpse has gradually been withering away since 2002.

So while it's quite likely that there won't be any major new JK (SP) releases in the near future, I still have this wish that somebody's going to prove me wrong and make a nice new JK/MotS adventure for us to play. Not that I'm refreshing JKHub every 2 minutes expecting something like that to pop up, but it'd still be nice.

Yet as a comparison, Wolfenstein 3D is really going strong. Or at least going on. There must have been more updates on that site this year than in whole Massassi since 2007!
Star Wars: TODOA | DXN - Deus Ex: Nihilum
2010-04-25, 3:27 PM #23
Originally posted by FastGamerr:
More like TODOA is dopefish


But uh, anyhow, what room exactly? After or before the amazing turnable catwalk?


Before I guess. When the level starts off, you enter a big room, and to the left there is a control room with a couple troopers in it, and there's a control for the big hanger door on the other side of the big room. When you enter that room and kill all the baddies (one armed with a rocket launcher), the only place to really go is on the left hand side. You enter into an empty room that has a drop in part of the floor, and there is a turret that fires at you through the doorway of another room or hall or something. When I approach the room/turret, I crash. I've tried holding various weapons and being in 1st/3rd person, and I tried it on 800x600 once, but it always just crashed.
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2010-04-25, 3:50 PM #24
Has anyone else read the topic and thought "Woah, JKhub is alive?"
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2010-04-25, 11:25 PM #25
Originally posted by UltimatePotato:
When I approach the room/turret, I crash. I've tried holding various weapons and being in 1st/3rd person, and I tried it on 800x600 once, but it always just crashed.


Hmm, it's the area where you have to blow up the door to activate a switch to move on.

When the player reaches a certain radius (or sector, can't remember if JK was sophisticated enough for the former), a sound will be triggered from the other side of the door so that might cause the crash... I guess it's computer specific.
Star Wars: TODOA | DXN - Deus Ex: Nihilum
2010-04-26, 11:04 AM #26
Originally posted by FastGamerr:
But the point of the subtitle is to emphasize that the chances of anyone making a JK project as overambitious as TODOA are slimmer than ever.


This would be fine if it wasn't your own level... you divert jk topics to talk about your own stuff which is a little annoying especially when you give it that subtitle. TODOA was good but self proclaiming it as "The JK Project To End All JK Projects OR Prove Me Wrong" just makes you look arrogant and puts all other work released afterwards down.
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Magrucko Daines and the Vertical City (2016)
2010-04-26, 11:10 AM #27
I've been working on my map.. well actually it took a back seat because for some reason I cannot get the unofficial JK patch working correctly and it's kind of hard to test the map when it requires it.

I do get on JKHub every once in a while to see progress on any projects though.
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2010-04-26, 11:20 AM #28
Originally posted by Goit:
This would be fine if it wasn't your own level... you divert jk topics to talk about your own stuff which is a little annoying especially when you give it that subtitle. TODOA was good but self proclaiming it as "The JK Project To End All JK Projects OR Prove Me Wrong" just makes you look arrogant and puts all other work released afterwards down.


You know, I can actually see what you're meaning, I'm sorry about that. Though of it more like a light jab akin to "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb".
Star Wars: TODOA | DXN - Deus Ex: Nihilum
2010-04-26, 11:24 AM #29
Originally posted by Goit:
This would be fine if it wasn't your own level... you divert jk topics to talk about your own stuff which is a little annoying especially when you give it that subtitle. TODOA was good but self proclaiming it as "The JK Project To End All JK Projects OR Prove Me Wrong" just makes you look arrogant and puts all other work released afterwards down.


Think of it as a challenge, a means of trying to get someone to release something great once more. "My project is definitive, please release something great to prove me wrong so that we can all enjoy that new release."
Looks like we're not going down after all, so nevermind.
2010-04-26, 11:44 AM #30
Originally posted by FastGamerr:
You know, I can actually see what you're meaning, I'm sorry about that. Though of it more like a light jab akin to "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb".


I'm glad you didn't take it the wrong way - because you easily could have. I'm overwhelmed with respect for you now.
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Magrucko Daines and the Dark Youth (2010)
Magrucko Daines and the Vertical City (2016)
2010-04-26, 11:45 AM #31
Well, you could say you already proved him wrong anyway, yours came out after his, and won the SP contest :P
2010-04-26, 12:20 PM #32
Thank you, Goit!

Quite true, CM, quite true.
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2010-04-26, 12:38 PM #33
Awww, let's hug a wabbit. :D
幻術
2010-04-26, 12:40 PM #34
But in all seriousness, all this winning-level-making from you guys does time to time tempt me with the idea of re-installing JK.

MASSASSI JK EDITORS FTW.
幻術
2010-04-26, 1:55 PM #35
I'm just going to ***** about moving on to another game, but I'd be guilty of not moving. I've messed with hammer and stuff. I'm just no good at making levels anymore.
2010-04-26, 3:48 PM #36
or ever
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2010-04-26, 3:59 PM #37
I'm still plugging away at my jed like editor when I have the chance, but there is no game to edit with it.
2010-04-26, 4:13 PM #38
Market it to iphone devs, they need something easy (& cheap) to make levels with.
2010-04-26, 4:25 PM #39
written in c# and xna :smug:
2010-04-26, 4:56 PM #40
Silly Jon. You can only write in Objective C, the best language ever to be given to us by Steve Jobs (MAY HE LIVE FOREVER).
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