And one more thing. Waiting 60 minutes is just suicide. I wouldn't want to weight that long. Cut it back to 15 minutes or something. And yes. In chapter one just make it so that one push of the button will well.........lets just say we'll need more that shaman. That way you can still make jazz panic but at the same time cut back on that long cut scene.

ok the reason that the play has to wait is that there are sub missions you can do at the same time. so the player can get better at hand-to-hand combat also if the player finshs the sub missions they get a chance at lori's sub quest where you only get to use lori jazz and spaz wait behind so they arn't there to help you and if you finsh it you get lori's hidden crystial. that's why you wait 60 min.
um it's ment to be a long cut seance like in final fantsy or something. look the point is it's ment to be long if people want i may cut it down a little bit but that will take longer and chapter 3 will be on hold longer. it's a good thing my holidays start to so after school i can think about the story but i'm not working on it 24/7 i have a life you know.

Great, This thread was a big dissapointment, although I guess I should have expected it.

Few points to point out.

1.Epic is NOT going to make a JJ3. Jazz Jackrabbit doesn't make them money. JJ1 made money.
JJ2 didn't make as much.
JJ2: TSF was an attempt to save it, but didn't make much money.
JJA was the last attempt and didn't make them money.

THEN! There was a pitch last year, (Mentioned by Cliffy I believe.) And look how far that has come. ....It's still a pitch or less by now.

2. As said before, Epic would hire their own writers.

3. EPIC WON'T MAKE ANOTHER JAZZ JACKRABBIT GAME! (Unless they feel led to make JJ1 for XBLA. Unlikely.)

you forgot the christmas edition.

Originally Posted by NeonPSY

JJ2: TSF was an attempt to save it

It may have started that way, but I doubt what became the final product became was meant to save JJ2.

ok NeonPSY if you have nothing good to say don't say anything i see a lot of holes in your post anyway.
1Epic would hire their own writers) yeah and if i post this story then the writers didn't write it so they don't have to pay the writers money.
2 i will get them to chance there mind think for a sec if the proplem is that jazz dosn't make money that's why i want you guys to back me up on this story i am writeing with your help. because the more people i get to sign up on it the more likely epic will make the game because there are more people that want it so more people to go out and buy the game so epic will make money and we get the game we want.

From what I heared Jazz2 was one of the best selling playformers of it's time.

I can start a thread and get names on people who want Jazz3 to come?

*hits head on desk*
I'm sorry Cool, but I don't think you understand who we're dealing with. We're dealing with a company who is alive thanks to unreal, so they would have no reason to want to "restart" Jazz Jackrabbit. In their minds, they just would see no profit.

Now, here's the thing: Keep going. I have an idea of making this into a Jedi Knight Academy mod, so the story would be good to have by then...

Just shut it plz. If we have no hope of course this will never work. We have to have faith that something will happen.

ok SonicNathan 1 you can make your own forum to see how many people would like to sign up on my story.

Hello all!

I'm a JJ fan and I skimmed through this post - I'm aware that bringing back a game from the ashes is a tough job - I tried it myself with another game. Problem is you need to start from scratch, make a storyline, create models, textures then code etc.

(I hope that what I'm about to say isn't common knowledge, otherwise I'll look like a right (-)(-)(-))

Today, I managed to download the unreleased demo of Jazz Jackrabbit 3. As far as I understand, this is the demo that World Tree Games showed to Epic, to try and raise interest in the game.

The demo contains a fair few areas of the game, a couple of baddies and 2 weapons. From playing the demo, it's clear that the game is a modification of the game Unreal (even some of the enemies behave the same), and also comes with UnrealEd.

This demo will quite possibly be a big boost for the JJ3 efforts, because now instead of having to make everything yourselves, you have a solid foundation from which to work on - an already working game, based on well known technology (Unreal) and loads of assets and an editor.

I've just finished uploading the demo to RapidShare - it's 100MB and split into 2 parts. You'll need WinRAR to extract the parts.

To run the game, just extract and then in the game folder go to System/Jazz3d.exe. The only niggle is that loading saved games doen't work - but maybe once people have a look at this, someone might be able to fix it.

The editor is located under System/Jazz3ded.exe. However, before you run the editor there's 2 things you need to do.

First, download the file TABCTL32.OCX (download link here), copy it to your WINDOWS\System32 folder, then go to Start->Run and type in regsvr32 tabctl32.ocx. This will prevent the editor from crashing when you try to rebuld the level.

Secondly, in order to test your levels (File->Play Level), you need to make another copy of Jazz3d.exe and rename it to UnrealTournament.exe.

That's it - I hope this contribution will help you guys make something we can call Jazz Jackrabbit 3. I'd be happy to help myself - have some experience in mapping and a bit of scripting for the Unreal engine.

~~Hoplite

Stijn: Spreading Jazz Jackrabbit is illegal by law and on this board.

Spreading the leaked Jazz Jackrabbit 3 demo is not legal, Hoplite. You may not offer download links on this forum.

If you want to know more about the demo, perhaps you'll find this page interesting.

And welcome to the forums

Maybe I should have named my post something other than "what if". it seemed appropriate at the time.

Um, by the way.... Velocity is female.

Originally Posted by ShadeJackrabbit

*hits head on desk*
I'm sorry Cool, but I don't think you understand who we're dealing with. We're dealing with a company who is alive thanks to unreal, so they would have no reason to want to "restart" Jazz Jackrabbit. In their minds, they just would see no profit.

Now, here's the thing: Keep going. I have an idea of making this into a Jedi Knight Academy mod, so the story would be good to have by then...

I think oyu are misunderstanding A HUMAN BEING IS TRYING TO HELP JAZZ JACKRABBIT OUTTA HIS HEART , HES DOING THIS FOR ALL OF US AND I FULLY SUPPORT HIM EPIC WILL MAKE THIS OR ELSE IM GONNA GET A CAR NUMBER PLATE AND THROW IT AT THEM THEN IM GONNA SAY MAKE THIS GAME OR ELSE , THEN IM GONNA GET INTO UNREAL SERVERS AND BRING EM DOWN THEN WHEN ....

Forget some of that but i will throw a car plate at them , if they don't so anyway everyone look in your hearts thats the one thing we never do thease days look into are hearts and follow them , my heart tells me oh s0 his trying to write a game for epic thats sssssssoooooooooo nice , i should apprecait this ,

LOOK INTO YOUR HEARTS AND FOLLOW THEM

keep up the work penutbutter jelly time its penutbutter jelly time wayit wayit XD well thats a funny song

Keep it going il support you all the way.

... You aren't serious.

Ah come on Shade, what's wrong with people having dreams? A little less pessimism wouldn't hurt.

Originally Posted by Ryder

LOOK INTO YOUR HEARTS AND FOLLOW THEM

I tried once and I hurt my eyes, then my face when I "followed" into a steel sign post. >_<

Originally Posted by Stijn

A little less pessimism wouldn't hurt.

You know, once I was feeling sooooo happy, then I stubbed my toe, tripped over a chair, and hit my head on my pillow. That last part might not seem so bad, but it was.

True. We have to have hope. If it is are dream to get epic to make jazz 3 then I say we should fallow are dreams. Just saying.. Don't think I'm a girl a anything! Got that!!

Please ship the cheese and corn overload OUTTA HERE.

Mmm... cheese and corn... wait. Corn? CORN? I hate corn! *dies*

And SonicNathan 1... why would we think you were a girl because of your post? Are you implying something about girls here? O-O

I didn't notice that at first. And I am NOT like that.

hmm what you mean by the nova.

?????????? What about a ship of corn?!? Now that's just crazY!?!?

Getting back ontopic...

Frankly, I don't think there was much of a topic to begin with.

This topic is about thinking of story ideas to send to Epic!

For no reason...

Here's mine:
Jazz is annoyed at life and decides to head down into the abyss to... oh wait. Sorry, I'm already doing that one.

Jazz is annoyed at life and decides to head down into the abyss? does that mean that you think jazz is a emo or something?

Wait and see...

What The H!!@ Are You Talking About?!?!?

I don't know what the "H exclamation exclamation at" I am talking about, but it's the abyss for clarification.

Ah the story is going so SLOW but i'm still coming up with ideas for it. i thort the the school holidays would help me write the story but it dosn't must be because i'm home that i'm not working much on it. any way the holidays are nearly over so that sould get me back up to speed on my story i have come up with a new idea but i have been thinking sould i ask people if they like it or just but it in. but i'll ask my idea is to make lori like a ditsy blond girl.

Originally Posted by Coolpeanutbutter

but i'll ask my idea is to make lori like a ditsy blond girl.

In before flamefest.

Originally Posted by Coolpeanutbutter

hmm what you mean by the nova.

...I'm a girl? DURRR

Originally Posted by SonicNathan 1

?????????? What about a ship of corn?!? Now that's just crazY!?!?

OMG CORN OVERLOAD *runs*

Originally Posted by Coolpeanutbutter

but i'll ask my idea is to make lori like a ditsy blond girl.

I'm not too sure many people will agree with that.

Originally Posted by NovaStar

I'm not too sure many people will agree with that.

I for one, doubt that I do.

lol it was just a idea i had in my head. and the holidays are finaly over so i'm back to work on jazz3 story agian.

you need a really deep one, like Fable of Half life 2

what the hell is fable of half life 2