Jake2 is a port of the GPL'd Quake2 engine from id Software to Java. Jake2 is distributed under the terms of the GPL (see LICENSE).
The port is implemented in Java, but some native libraries (LWJGL) are used for the visual rendering, input processing and audio playback (OpenAL) functionality.
Jake2 is still under development. Feel free to send bug report if you find one.
Currently, Jake2 supports every Java supported platform.
Requirements:
Please note that there is an issue with more recent java versions (17) on linux with lwjgl natives.
Jake2 client in its vanilla form is archived in jake2-legacy
branch and will not be maintained.
Even though one of the core ideas of this project was to reuse and improve (rather than reimplement from scratch) -
the client side code was particularly hard to maintain and develop.
Firstly, because it is written on top of the unmaintained and obsolete second LWJGL version,
which is incompatible with the current LWJGL version.
Secondly, jake2 rendering is implemented in OpenGL immediate mode and had to be rewritten on a modern shader pipeline anyway.
And lastly, there is a libGDX framework that can provide a lot of useful functionality, and ditch a lot of code (yes, Menu.java
, I am looking at you)
The client
and fullgame
modules are excluded from the build.
The new cake
module is introduced for the client side part (WIP).
TODO: update readme
from binary distribution:
bin
folder./fullgame
(or fullgame.bat
on windows)build from source:
gradle run
to build from source and run jake2gradle distZip
to build the distributionIf you don't have a gradle distribution you can use gradle wrapper, like ./gradlew run
.
If you run jake from an IDE:
gradle installDist
task before launch-Djava.library.path
VM option to point to the location of native libs (they are copied to the fullgame/build/install/fullgame
after the task mentioned above)Jake can autodetect steam installation. If it doesn't (when you have a non-steam version or when you install it to a custom location) pass basedir parameter to the game
+set basedir "/home/demoth/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Quake 2"
If you want to have the latest experimental features you can grab the latest Jake2 sources from GIT.
Jake2 is not compatible with the mods that have custom logic (game.dll).
Jake2 is network compatible with other clients, like Yamagi, Q2pro etc.
Jake2 is compatible with all map/models/sounds/textures as id Quake 2.
While Jake2 is a hobby project it is important to keep at least high level goals in mind:
At the moment of writing the goal N1 is achieved and goad N2 is in progress.
With accordance to the goals we can put a list of more concrete steps:
Jake2 uses: lwjgl Light Weight Java Game Library http://www.lwjgl.org openal Audio library http://www.openal.org
Use github issue tracker for bug reports and feedback.
have fun!
Daniil Bubnov bubnov.d.e@gmail.com - current maintainer (2019+)
Developed the project in 2003 - 2015