Hi there everyone! I am MaceMadunusus, I started modding roughly 14 years ago on a game called Star Wars: Jedi Knight Jedi Academy. I joined the Movie Battles II team in order to create many new, unique, and interactive locations as well as to update some existing levels. I am currently working on Movie Battles II's spiritual sequel Eridan Crisis.

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Dev Diary - Twenty Years of Movie Battles 2
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Dev Diary - Twenty Years of Movie Battles 2

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Twenty years ago today, RenegadeOfPhunk released the first build (B14) of Movie Battles 2. Last year on the twentieth anniversary of the original Movie...

Dev Diary - Rend2
Star Wars: Jedi Academy

Dev Diary - Rend2

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Rend 2 is a more modern renderer being developed by SomaZ to add features such as: Physically Based Materials, HDR Rendering & HDR Lightmaps, Parallax...

Dev Diary - Manaan
Star Wars: Jedi Academy

Dev Diary - Manaan

Movie Battles II

Manaan is a new level based on the iconic location, 'Ahto City' from Knight of the Old Republic.

Dev Diary - Enclave Layout Update
Star Wars: Jedi Academy

Dev Diary - Enclave Layout Update

Movie Battles II

Enclave is a level that has been overdue for changes for about a decade. The southern, or right side route (from Rebel perspective) has always been too...

Dev Diary - A Beta and a Mandalorian
Star Wars: Jedi Academy

Dev Diary - A Beta and a Mandalorian

Movie Battles II

A look back at the original Movie Battles beta release 20 years ago and a preview of new Mandalorian content.

Dev Diary - CTF Resupply & Map Updates
Star Wars: Jedi Academy

Dev Diary - CTF Resupply & Map Updates

Movie Battles II

In the next update to Capture The Flag, Resupply Nodes are being added in order to give people opportunities to sustain the fight. These resupply nodes...

15 Years of Movie Battles
Star Wars: Jedi Academy

15 Years of Movie Battles

Movie Battles II 28 comments

15 years ago today the original Movie Battles released its first full version for Jedi Outcast. Hard to believe isn't it? On eve of the release of a new...

V1.4.8 Update Released & New Trailer!
Star Wars: Jedi Academy

V1.4.8 Update Released & New Trailer!

Movie Battles II 3 comments

A new update with Christmas variants of maps, new voice commands, model updates, bug fixes, and a new trailer!

Downtime, Cause and Consequences
Star Wars: Jedi Academy

Downtime, Cause and Consequences

Movie Battles II 2 comments

We are back again after almost two weeks of vanishing from the Internet. You have probably noticed that everything is different – the domain, the site...

Downtime Update
Star Wars: Jedi Academy

Downtime Update

Movie Battles II 6 comments

As most of the community knows, for the last week the website, and by extension the master server and the launcher have been down. There were recently...

Developer Diary - Ten years of JKA
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Developer Diary - Ten years of JKA

Movie Battles II 6 comments

As you already know, Moviebattles is already over ten years old. Now JKA is 10 aswell! Exactly 10 years ago on September 17th 2003, the game was released...

Developer Diary - Droideka & Smod!
Star Wars: Jedi Academy

Developer Diary - Droideka & Smod!

Movie Battles II

So, with V1 getting closer and closer, we're going to keep annoying you guys with previews of new things. If everything goes to plan, we'll all be playing...

Developer Diary - Soldiers, Wookiees, Duels
Star Wars: Jedi Academy

Developer Diary - Soldiers, Wookiees, Duels

Movie Battles II

Hey guys, here is another diary with a few new things. It's been a couple of weeks since the last diary, so we thought it was time to post another one.

10 Year Anniversary
Star Wars: Jedi Academy

10 Year Anniversary

Movie Battles II

Well - hard to believe, but it's been 10 years since I issued the first release of MB I! On the 15th May 2003 I released v1.0 of Movie Battles for Jedi...

Developer Diary - Some progress!
Star Wars: Jedi Academy

Developer Diary - Some progress!

Movie Battles II 2 comments

Since it has been quite some time since our last release, we decided to start showing some progress. The idea is to show short developer diaries every...

UDK Tutorial - Customizable Lightsaber
Movie Battles III

UDK Tutorial - Customizable Lightsaber

Movie Battles III Textures

A tutorial made by our very own MaceMadunusus which details and explains the process behind texturing and the creation of materials and material instances...

Movie Battles II goes LEGO!
Star Wars: Jedi Academy

Movie Battles II goes LEGO!

Movie Battles II 8 comments

Ever since we released V0.1.2 we've been hard at work to make an update that will change how we all experience the mod. Without further teasing, here...

Death Star Announcement and Lightsaber Customization Concept
Movie Battles III

Death Star Announcement and Lightsaber Customization Concept

Movie Battles III 5 comments

Here we announce our Death Star level and a concept for Lightsaber Customization using Luke Skywalker's ROTJ hilt as a base.

Balance of Power Announced!
Star Wars: Jedi Academy

Balance of Power Announced!

Movie Battles II 2 comments

Balance of Power is not a gametype you see often at all. In our variant the map relies on a single central capture point similar to those used in Conquest...

Conquest Announced!
Star Wars: Jedi Academy

Conquest Announced!

Movie Battles II 6 comments

The conquest gametype has been around for quite a long time, and probably the major game series everyone recognizes it from is Battlefield. However, due...

It's a Sith! Blast him!
Star Wars: Jedi Academy

It's a Sith! Blast him!

Movie Battles II 2 comments

Anyways, moving onto what you want to see, here’s the first new gameplay feature that I have created. Well, I say new, it’s more of an enhancement...

Now with less bugs!
Star Wars: Jedi Academy

Now with less bugs!

Movie Battles II

...and many new features! Here are some details of the new features included in V0.1

Battle Over Coruscant
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Battle Over Coruscant

Movie Battles II 1 comment

Now that RC and other maps are released, I have focused on finishing up Battle Over Coruscant started by Darth Norman. I do have to say, that it is one...

Newest Feature Set
Movie Battles III

Newest Feature Set

Movie Battles III 7 comments

Here is a list of some of the newest features and updates since our latest video log.

v0.0.3 Server Side patch
Star Wars: Jedi Academy

v0.0.3 Server Side patch

Movie Battles II

We have a small patch for you to fix some exploits that have become popular as of late.

Scoreboard, Class Screen, Achievements, and Movie Battles III?
Star Wars: Jedi Academy

Scoreboard, Class Screen, Achievements, and Movie Battles III?

Movie Battles II

Nope, MB2 isn't dead guys. I'll just talk about the new features related to me (Ace-Ventura)in the next release. This includes Scoreboard, Class Menu...

Community Map Pack - v6.0 Release!
Star Wars: Jedi Academy

Community Map Pack - v6.0 Release!

Movie Battles II

The newest version of the Community Map Pack has been released, check it out now!

Movie Battles II V0.0.1 & V0.0.2 Patches Released!
Star Wars: Jedi Academy

Movie Battles II V0.0.1 & V0.0.2 Patches Released!

Movie Battles II 14 comments

The next two updates to Movie Battles II are here, featuring a number of fixes found in the V0 release. However, expect even more in the future!

Installing Movie Battles II & Troubleshooting Guide
Star Wars: Jedi Academy

Installing Movie Battles II & Troubleshooting Guide

Movie Battles II Starting a mod 43 comments

This is an in depth guide to installing Movie Battles II. This guide will explain how to install Movie Battles II on Windows machines and Macintosh machines...

Nations Cup 2010, New Website and Forums
Star Wars: Jedi Academy

Nations Cup 2010, New Website and Forums

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The Nations Cup is back for its second year! The nations cup is a community grown tournament where countries set up teams based off their residency and...