OpenJK
A community-maintained open-source engine for Jedi Academy and Jedi Outcast with bug fixes, performance improvements, and multi-platform support.
What is OpenJK?
OpenJK is an open-source game engine maintenance project for Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy and Jedi Outcast. It fixes bugs, improves performance, and adds modern platform support while ensuring full backwards compatibility with the original games and modifications.
Players of Jedi Academy and Jedi Outcast who want improved stability and cross-platform support, and mod developers seeking a clean, maintained codebase for creating new game modifications.
Developers choose OpenJK because it provides a community-supported, stable engine foundation with multi-platform compatibility and a focus on preservation, allowing mods to run reliably without altering core gameplay.
Overview
Community effort to maintain and improve Jedi Academy (SP & MP) + Jedi Outcast (SP only) released by Raven Software
Use Cases
Best For
- Playing Jedi Academy on modern operating systems like Linux and macOS
- Running Jedi Academy multiplayer with improved stability and bug fixes
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