Jedi Knight Galaxies is an immersive, competitive and innovative multiplayer shooter, played out in the Star Wars universe. Currently a full conversion mod (soon to go standalone), the project was originally based on and modified from Raven Software’s Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy. Jedi Knight Galaxies is available completely free of charge. We aim to develop the project into a Large Multiplayer Online game, crossing traditional RPG (role playing game) elements with the fast paced excitement of an FPS (first person shooter). The game is supported by its community and developers, contribution is encouraged and newbies are welcome. The current development team comes from a variety of backgrounds, countries, and age, united by our desire to make a great game. Welcome to Jedi Knight Galaxies, where we break the limits!

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The 28th Developer Diary, a teaser on the second minigame by BobaFett in Jedi Knight Galaxies, Slice. Slice is a single-player minigame for slicing computers and bypassing security alarms. This can be done for several reasons: to access quest information, opening a door, shutting down a droid or turret system, etc.

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Hello all! Guess what? We've got a 28th Developer Diary for you! Still not quite as soon as we'd like it, but I guess this will work. So, what will they bring this time, you might ask. The answer to that - a teaser on the second minigame by BobaFett in Jedi Knight Galaxies, Slice. We revealed a glimpse of it in diary #26. Initially we were going to make a video in the style of our Pazaak teaser, but we had some technical difficulties getting the raw videos into an editor. So for this time around, we'll all have to settle with screenshots.

Slice is a single-player minigame for slicing computers and bypassing security alarms. This can be done for several reasons: to access quest information, opening a door, shutting down a droid or turret system, etc. Slicing consists of a group of colored boxes. This represents the system's security grid. The size of this grid can vary from 1x1 to 8x8, and does not have to be square. Each node on this grid is initially blue, meaning the node is inactive. Left-clicking on a node activates it, revealing what kind of node it is and activating its effect.

Developer Diary #28 - Slice

The goal of the minigame is to activate all access nodes for each of the up to 5 security levels, without triggering any alarm nodes... To your help your slicing computer provides several programs to help you, the most important being the Probe. Probing the security grid reveals the amount of alarms (in the red field) and total "value" (in the green field) of each row.

Developer Diary #28 - Slice

The value indicated for each row is the sum of all access nodes - which have a value of 1 plus the node's security level - relay and reset nodes. You can mark unrevealed nodes either blue or red by right-clicking them, for example if you suspect the node hides an alarm.

Developer Diary #28 - Slice

Some programs raise the Warning level higher than others, and should be used sparingly. Scanning nodes makes them flash either green (for safe nodes) or red (for alarm nodes) for a few seconds, during which you have to memorize or mark which nodes are safe and not.

Developer Diary #28 - Slice

Once all access nodes have been activated, the highest security level is accessed. Should you choose to stop slicing after unlocking a lower level some of the possibilities unlocked become available, and you can go back to continue slicing the grid any time you want. Mind that it might have been reset once you get back though...

Developer Diary #28 - Slice

Should you fail to avoid the alarm nodes though... Then you'll have to do things the hard way.

Developer Diary #28 - Slice


As you already might have guessed, the GUI is still very basic Work In Progress (as are some parts of the concept itself... Remember that what you see from this mod is always subject of change). However, notice the new cursor by Jake. Adz is working on a beautiful, new interface for the minigame. Here's how it might come to look like as it gets closer to being finished.

Developer Diary #28 - Slice

With that being said, that's all we'll bring you for this time. I promise that we'll have something hot cooking up for you (pun intended) in the Effects area though, so stay tuned on ModDB and the site!

- The Jedi Knight Galaxies Development Team

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Beskamir
Beskamir

Great!! this mod will be epic!!!!! it will definitely be better then star wars galaxies (never actually played star wars galaxies but i know enough about it to say that it wasn't that good) also maybe you guys might make a better mmo then the old republic; i've gotten selected for beta testing so i'm so excited about friday:)

GOOD MOD BTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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ADTeam™
ADTeam™

Go play SWG a little and then come back and comment. JKG is based in many SWG systems and KOTOR features.

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jedi_hm2
jedi_hm2

Creative, innovative and well done. Great job. ;)

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anakin2505
anakin2505

can be some way of automatic slicing like in fallout .because i was never good with this minigames

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Expack
Expack

I don't know why, but the slicing minigame screams "minesweeper clone" to me. However, the methods for detecting the 'alarm' nodes will certainly be rather useful! Nice job on the minigame overall!

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XaviorTrikiri
XaviorTrikiri

Lol... this will support like what... 16 players? Not really an MMO.

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Jeff_Katarn
Jeff_Katarn

Quote from the mod summary:
"Jedi Knight Galaxies is a Multi-Player Modification for Jedi Academy designed for RPG gaming amongst a group of 100 - 200 players across several servers, each being a new planet. This is a full-scale modification with new & customised characters, maps, weapons, gameplay, force powers, menu systems, music, animations, effects... and much much more."

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silverfang22 Creator
silverfang22

64 players, it's considered an LMO, not an MMO.

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TheOneandOnly
TheOneandOnly

Soooo... it's Minesweeper?

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silverfang22 Creator
silverfang22

I've played slice about a hundred times and not once did I think "minesweeper" while playing it lol

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TheOneandOnly
TheOneandOnly

Fair enough, just seemed a little similar from the description. Not that there's anything wrong either way.

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silverfang22 Creator
silverfang22

Plus, minesweeper is about finding the mines like the alarm nodes, slice is about unlocking security nodes and avoiding alarm nodes :P

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