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Hahaha...that's great, Jedi Knight was my first real exposure to programming. Great times trying to make more and more sophisticated modifications of the game f
by marvin 14y ago
Hahaha...that's great, Jedi Knight was my first real exposure to programming. Great times trying to make more and more sophisticated modifications of the game files...either legitly (custom levels, mods) and to use in unsuspecting multiplayer games on MSN Gaming Zone. I remember some members of the modding community ending up becoming serious level designers or game developers.
You could actually make more complicated hacks by making deeper modifications to the weapon/force power scripts. The game had a simple checksum on the client-side script files where it did a rudimentary count on the number of statements (method argument: one statement, pair of parentheses: one statement), and if you had a count identical to the server file, the rest of the contents of your script didn't matter. So you could basically do a lot of stuff as long as you were careful to keep the script file statement count intact: Change the properties of the levels or surfaces, give yourself all sorts of superpowers, freeze or insta-kill opponents, teleport yourself or others, etc etc etc. The scripting language was somewhat C-like and carried over pretty easily to more traditional programming.
- walexander 14y ago> Jedi Knight was my first real exposure to programming. Yeah, I was in middle school at the time. I think between hacking that game, HTML on angelfire, and the TI-83 calculator, my trajectory for life was set.
- teamonkey 14y ago> I remember some members of the modding community ending up becoming serious level designers or game developers. I was one of them. COG scripting was my intro to game modding. I'd been writing small games until that point, but COG made the game a platform to develop for and that was different to anything I'd seen before.
- zacharycohn 14y agoDid you ever hang out on Massassi? I still frequent it, it's always fun to hear people talking about JK and find out that you knew them 10 years ago...
- marvin 14y agoI was hanging out at Massassi at one point, username Gandalf the Gray. Was a period of maybe 2 years around 2000 I was reasonably active. Was probably around 15 at the time.
- zacharycohn 14y agoAhahahah... I totally remember you. Happydud here. :)
- marvin 14y agoHaha, that's awesome :D
- andrewingram 14y agoI know you now dud.
- teamonkey 14y agoI lurked for a while but never posted there.