Upon it’s closure yesterday, LucasArts has given out the source code of two popular games in the Star Wars franchise. Those games are “Jedi Outcast” and “Jedi Academy”. The source code is being released for free to anyone who wis hes to download it. It can be found here:

Jedi Outcast: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jedioutcast/

Jedi Academy: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jediacademy/

The source code has been freely released to the public, but under a GNU GPLv2 license.

Also, in continuation to yesterday’s post, I edited it to say that in the deal was also LucasFilm as a whole. I didn’t realize that at first, and that it was $4B for Lucasfilm and all branches. In addition, LucasArts is not 100% gone forever – just they are gone as a studio. Disney will continue using it, but as a liscence name. If they release a Star Wars game, they would license it as LucasArts. Furthermore on the development of Star Wars 1313, which has recently been cancelled as it was a LucasArts production, a third party person gave their opinion on the future of the game to popular gaming news site Kotaku. The person said that they felt that the chance that the game could be continued on at another company was very small.

Will we ever see anything more of the classic LucasArts games, like another remaster of something? Or, will Disney throw the classic game licenses to the side of the table? I hope not. A Lego Star Wars remastered collection would be nice. Very nice.

Sadface. Another classic game developer, LucasArts, the video game branch of LucasFilm, has shut down only 154 days (approximately 5 months) after being aquired by Disney for approximately $4 billion dollars. EDIT: LucasFilm was also bought by Disney. Their current projects have also been cancelled – like “Star Wars 1313”.

But, for people who were anticipating “Star Wars 1313”, I predict that they could make a deal with another development company to continue on the project. Why would they fork out $4 billon dollars for a large game development company, only to shut it down 5 months later? Maybe, their idea was, buy the company, make a bit of money off of it for a few months, and shut it down and sell the highest paying and most popular games/game series rights to other companies. Think how many companies would pay to buy some of the LucasArts game franchises – Disney would probably at least break even on that, if it worked at all.

LucasArts also created the “Monkey Island” series, as well as ScummVM, and Grim Fandango – along with many other classics. I don’t see why Disney would shut them down – why not just sell the company for even more that they paid Lucasfilm for it? Even if the buyer would catch on that they didn’t pay that much for the company when Disney bought it – it’s LucasArts we’re talking about here. In a buyer’s eyes, it would be worth it.

Disney should have kept open LucasArts. The company still could have made money – they came out with “The Force Unleashed” Star Wars series – and they made money from it. They could still have made money, they just needed some fresh ideas. But, I’m sure Disney has their reasons.

I personally think that Lucasfilm shouldn’t have made that deal with Disney in the first place unless if LucasArts was going bankrupt. If that was the case, then why would Disney want it? Lucasfilm should have kept the company, I think. Look at it this way – other than from merchandise, how much money does Lucasfilm make from other things? LucasArts was one of their main money makers, if I’m correct. Maybe it’s just me, though.

Farewell, LucasArts. The gaming community will miss you.

–by Gavin Trutzenbach, Owner

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