In fact, LucasArts developed their own engine for the game in which they introduced new features to the genre, like atmospheric effects, animations, shading and most importantly, the ability to display rooms on different floors, all on top of each other. Star Wars Dark Forces is an FPS (First Person Shooter) developed and distributed by LucasArts for DOS and Macintosh in 1995 and a year later, ported to the Sony Playstation.Ĭalling Dark Forces a Doom clone isn’t fair because it doesn’t use the Doom engine. … Well, I suppose I should tell you more about it.
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?! GO AND PLAY IT! In fact, you do just that right on the first level of Dark Forces (which was basically the demo). But in the old canon (before Disney bought the rights to Star Wars and decreed the Expanded Universe as non-canon) those plans were stolen by perhaps the most famous Jedi outside the movies: Kyle Katarn. It’s freaking STAR WARS after all!Īs you all know, Rogue One is the story of how the Rebel Alliance got their hands in the Death Star plans. Next there is a list of known formats and their purpose: ExtensionĬontains all the game files in a packed wayĬontains an animated multi-directional spriteĬontains a MIDI song (it's a MIDI format 2 based file)Ĭontains a sound (it's a Creative Voice Sound file)Ĭontains a textual description of the geometry of a levelĬontains a LucasFilm DataFile? It usually contains backgrounds and moviesĬontains a textual description of the objects of a levelĬontains settings or saved state (DARKPILO.CFG, JEDI.Show of hands! Who’s here has already seen Rogue One, the new Star Wars movie? Wow, all of you? I shouldn’t be surprised. are more challenging because they're binary and they're not known formats like. Star Wars: Dark Forces uses a series of custom file formats, some of these files are really easy to parse, mainly because they're text-based file formats but others, like sprites, bitmaps, sounds, etc. To reimplement Dark Forces I've been doing some reverse engineering of DARK.EXE and doing a lot of speculation on how the engine It is a work in progres so there are a lot of
This is a reimplementation or remake of the 1996 classic Star Wars: Dark Forces.
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