The Dark Pastime is a Single Player modification (or add-on) created by a group of fans for the Jedi Academy video game. Currently Part I has been released, the work continues on next chapters.
The story takes place in 17 ABY, several years after the original game and the events with Tavion Axmis and her Sith cult. The Jedi Academy became a large organization of peace-keepers, loyal to the New Republic with the capital on liberated Coruscant. Former Galactic Empire is weakened and is known as the Imperial Remnant, yet still has enough forces to fight both the Republic and the Jedi. By the time of TDP the struggle between the factions continued with a usual pace, until the incident in the system of Goura: somehow a Republic military base was destroyed with all personnel dead. Most would blame the former Empire for this vicious act, but new major figures might be pulling the strains so that everyone believed this way.
Mon Mothma, the president of the New Republic, asks the Jedi for help – once again - to find out what really happened with the Republic base on Goura and investigate any possible Imperial activities in that sector. So it happens that Kyle Katarn, an agent of the New Republic and now a Jedi Knight locates the likely Imperial culprit and chases the Imperial dreadnaught responsible for the attack.
The Imperial captain manages to leave his ship and flee to Ord Mantell, where he is later killed by a mysterious assassin. A new plot against the Jedi and the Republic itself is obvious. And Kyle Katarn is the only one to succeed in revealing the identity of the face behind the tenebrous game against the Galaxy...
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This could have been a much larger news update on the mod, but we don’t release major posts like this (obviously making a good material also requires time). I guess putting all the efforts into the mod itself is better than posting pictures and texts for the sake of posting.
The next chapter is larger than the first one and includes several planets. Two missions take place on Dantooine and Sulon (these are mostly complete), but Yavin IV, Coruscant hubs and several Anarmar levels will also be available. Currently the latter one is in progress.
After the attack on the Galactic Senate, the New Republic
is slowly restoring the seat of the Galactic Government.
Coruscant includes the Briefing area as before, but as you progress, you can visit other areas in the New Republic Intelligence HQ, for example a room for analysis and a feedback on the latest mission.
The Galaxy map is now a hologram instead of a screen,
and you can actually see different sections of space and Mission planets.
As mentioned above – you can check on your investigation in new parts of the HQ hub. Don’t forget to check your messages too! They will blink and send a sound, if something important arrived.
For this chapter and later missions, we created several characters/NPCs, including the new faction of the Force users. In the past they looked exactly liked Reborn (reskin), but I didn’t like the way it established a direct connection to the enemy from the Jedi Outcast game. Thus a new apparel was made, suggesting, that these are completely different followers of the Dark Side of the Force.
Guobbo is one of the local merchants on Rutana, which you can talk to in order to find the solution. This Toydarian deals in weapons, items and stuff… well, you know. Located in the Outer Rim the Rutana Spaceport is open to all kinds of trade. Added a few details to the original model by Hans Moleman (he was genius in making Watto this way for JO).
When travelling to the remote world of Uffel, you get a chance to come across Sayira (screenshot below), while chasing your true opponent on the planet. Being a historian she is also a local observer, who feels cautious towards all the outlanders, and for good reason! Specifically for her we created a new model, using a few elements of the Twi'Lek robe, but giving her a new haircut. This is in fact a third version of this character, with previous ones based on Mara Jade and Gwethenea (by HapSlash).
Other NPCs might assist Kyle in his quest, and in many cases their appearance was adapted or even a new one was created from scratch. This includes new enemies as well, but we’ll reveal them next time.
JK series is a long one, counting several games, as well as showing Kyle Katarn differently every time. Most players remember him as a bearded scoundrel or as a “Just-A-Guy” with a lightsaber and some questions. In earlier games his appearance was based on that of Jason Court, so this look was chosen for DP. However from now on you can actually choose his appearance between DFII and JO.
It was apparent from the start, that we needed more actors, but the dialogs were made in such a way, that we could use all the help we could get from our friends. However last year we made a breakthrough here, as we got a bunch of new voices for all the characters, including Kyle Katarn himself.
Kyle and Mon Mothma got new voices and lines in this Republic office,
redecorated in the traditions of chancellor Valorum.
Not only all the characters will have a new voice, often provided by professional or semi-professional actors, but their lines also got expanded. Previously silent NPCs also got their own unique MISC pack of sounds. In total more than 50 actors provided the voice for very different characters in the Dark Pastime mod.
The Dark Pastime Chapter I Update + News on Chapter II
News 2 commentsChapter I release + Update of the pack (French included) of The Dark Pastime. A minor look on Chapter II.
The Dark Pastime Chapter I is out
News 18 commentsAfter thorough testing and fixing, Chapter I of The Dark Pastime is finally ready for download.
Chapter I Testing
News 10 commentsDark Pastime Chapter for JA: Alpha testing almost complete. Beta testing planned.
New channel and new models
News 7 commentsIntroducing a few new characters for DP – the Sith master Darth Whirmah, hailing from the world of Dromund Kaas. The other one is the LEP Assistant...
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DP Chapter 1 Walkthrough
GuideSome people asked for help and tips for DP Chapter. If you're stuck, this guide might help you.
2-1B Surgical Droid Model
Player ModelThe team of Dark Pastime Modification proudly presents the first of our models to be released - 2-1B Medical Droid.
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NumberWan, what are the means used to make a mod so popular? I'd like to know, because JKD lacks popularity...
Adverts. Adverts everywhere. :D
Hey Number Wan can you record a demo or something of one of your maps cause they are aweesome
I wait to release the mod! :Dthe mod is very cool!
А будут такие враги как мандалорцы?
Мандалорцы будут, но я больше ничего не скажу. =)
Долго наблюдаю за Dark Pastime и накопилась пара вопросов!
1. Будут новые способности в силе?
2. Будет новое огнестрельное оружие?
3. будет новая анимация и новая модель Кайла?
Спасибо за вопросы. =) Постараемся ответить.
1. У главного героя не будет новых способностей. У врагов будут.
2. Мы думаем об этом. Есть идеи, но пока не удается осуществить это.
3. Будет новая анимация. Модель Кайла старая, но можно выбирать одежду.
A question, as your team seems to be Russian (apologies if I got it wrong), will there also be an English version or is that the initial goal of your project.
The work you and your team have done so far is very impressive and I really like the looks of the alien cities.
The New Republic/Jedi Knight games is one of my favorite eras in the SW setting.
Yes, our team is Russian, and the voicing will be in Russian (except for aliens :) ). However we create both Russian and English subtitles. A friend of ours is thinking of creating a German version as well (no voicing, sorry), and we wanted to make a Spanish one as well. I don't speak French, but it would be great to create subtitles for our French Friends and Fans too. :)
Subtitles isn't the only thing to be translated - menus and datapads will be in different languages as well.
I'm glad You like the locations we've shown so far. We try to make them as vivid as possible. They do have Star Wars feeling, but that's yet to be seen by the Fans.
I also like the New Republic/Jedi Knight series. I don't know why. But it has something unique in it just like KOTOR or the movies.
The imperial world reminds me of the Fortress Worlds mention in Wookieepedia Starwars.wikia.com
Is this such a world?
I also like it that we get to explore more alien cities and world that we haven't seen in much detail or are completely new. (its to easy to do Coruscant or Tantooine all the time)
But will we also get to explore imperial bases, stations and ships?
I like the New Republic/Jedi Knight era as it is a period of transition from the Galactic Empire to a new republic, with the Empire now basically forced in the role of the Galactic Alliance, desperate to get their control back.
I never cared for the Clone Wars era.
The Imperial world in DP is actually one such Fortress-planet, though such a status won't be mentioned in the plot per se.
As for alien worlds - there won't be Kamino or Felucia for instance. Some planets are the creation of our own, but, as we stated before, such planets correspond the SW canon in one way or another. Coruscant makes a cameo actually, but no Tatooine this time. However there are a lot of alien species in DP.
Several Imperial bases and one ship as mod levels. And there are other enemies besides Imperial forces.
As I said - I like JK epoch of SW too. But in DP there will be other fractions other than the New Republic, Remnant forces, the Jedi and the Sith. Clone Wars era is interesting from a perspective as the future Galactic Empire is taking shape. Some of the events of that time will be mentioned in DP, though the mod takes place in 17 ABY.
>Coruscant makes a cameo actually, but no Tatooine this time. However there are a lot of alien species in DP.
Heh perhaps I was not clear but I actually find it a good thing that your project doesn't focus to much on already known worlds ;)
>And there are other enemies besides Imperial forces.
Nice, as you may know, the intro of Jedi Knight 2 mentioned that there were various armies now seeking to take control of the galaxy since the fall of the Galactic Empire, I was always curious what these other factions next to the New Republic and Empire were.
Introducing them brings in some new dynamics, will they for example also fight each other when they don't notice you?
Perhaps its best that the games are subtitled as I can not imagine another voice actor for Kyle Katarn than Jeff Bennett. (yes I know it were different actors before ;) )
How many people worked on the storyline for DP?
>"Nice, as you may know, the intro of Jedi Knight 2 mentioned that there were various armies now seeking to take control of the galaxy since the fall of the Galactic Empire, I was always curious what these other factions next to the New Republic and Empire were.
Introducing them brings in some new dynamics, will they for example also fight each other when they don't notice you?"
Yes, the fractions will be at odds with each other. Bounty hunters are now hired by someone else, and there are different groups of them. Besides these be ready to participate in "aggressive negotiations" with local gangs, tomb robbers, powerful corporations and religious fanatics among others.
I agree - Jeff Bennett sounds like Kyle Katarn. But obviously he won't be involved in DP =)
Two people worked on the original story of DP, though the idea of creating this new mod belongs to me. My friend Wuhan was the one who actually told me about the modifications, I never thought it was possible to create smth of your own, but it was in 2003 or 2004 I think... In any case the story belongs to two people, but there are also side-quests, that were developed by the team, which includes those who wrote scripts (4-5 people), maps (3-4 mappers, as some created maps and then gave up mapping, but later new members joined the project), models (a lot of team members, but we gained permission from others to use the models available in the Internet), voicing (about 20 different people), texturing (3 people), etc.