BIbirdculture·May 19, 2026Submission
Raven Software Released Jedi Academy Source Code in 2013 Amid Dev Crunch Rage
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Jedi-Academy
C++2015–2026
grayj / Jedi-Academy
Jedi-Academy
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
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What it is
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
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Where it is used
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HN mentions by year4 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2015-07-09 14:59:28 UTC to 2026-05-19 12:55:52 UTC.
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Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesA fun entrypoint to discovery into that repository is https://github.com/grayj/Jedi-Academy/search?q=FIXME&unscope... .
In Game Source Code CollectionSome of my favorites are not listed. Notably, Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy had some of the best gameplay of all time. I played through a couple of months ago and the lightsaber combat is still amazing by modern standards.
https://github.com/grayj/Jedi-Academy
In Game Source Code CollectionThere's a few.
ID software[0] open source their games, but require the assets to actually build and run the game (which you obtain by buying the game).
Epic [1] have open sourced Unreal Tournament (note I'm not sure on the licensing, just that the code is available).
Natural Selection [2] source code was released
Star wars Jedi Knight [3] had the source released.
Note that all the AAA games that I'm aware of that have been open sourced are older games, I don't know of any in development AAA games that are open source.
[0] https://github.com/id-Software
[1] https://github.com/EpicGames/
[2] http://unknownworlds.com/ns2/natural-selection-source-code-r...
[3] https://github.com/grayj/Jedi-Academy
In An unexpected benefit of open-sourcing our code