Hey Violet! Always good to see a familiar name.

I've been reading up on JJ2+, and it sounds incredibly impressive. I always thought we'd need to get the source code to be able to do things like that.

Are people still playing JJ2 online games?

I really wonder why Epic seems to want to bury their rich history. I grew up on Epic MegaGames shareware, and saved up my allowance to buy their games back when I was in Elementary School. This was one of the first communities on the internet that I ever joined. Epic has Unreal up on GOG - I always figured the rest of their classics were soon to follow, but it's been years and nothing. I can't imagine that CliffyB is ashamed to have made something other than a dude-bro shooter, the Jazz series are fantastic games.

Also, a few years back I got the chance to try the Jazz 3D demo, and was amazed at just how good it actually was. I think the gaming landscape would be quite different if it had come out back when it was initially under development - the early days of 3D platformers (Mario 64, Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, etc.) - it could've been huge. I see someone in the community also made a patch for that to fix some of the issues, I'll have to try that if I can dig up my copy!

Any other oldies still hanging around? I was impressed to see the news that EvilMike and ET were part of the team that made Ori and the Blind Forest. I'll have to pick that up when I get an Xbox One later this year.

~AJ2f