Jazz2Online news for September 2005
Lori Central - October 1st 2005
It could’ve been posted in the other post, but wanted to give it some attention of its own. It’s probable that Lori Central returns soon, according to DrJones.
The site’s frontpage announcement has been changed accordingly, from the old notice about moving to a new domain it has been having for months, to a “Lori Central has almost returned, stay tuned!” notice.
Lori Central has always been one of the better sites, with all its Lori fan art and news. Its return, as an archive at the least, would be nice to see.
See also the encyclopedia entry on Lori Central.
Console Questions, Rabbitjournal, Hoaxes - October 1st 2005
Over at the JCF, Veteran JJ2 Utility coder Overlord is asking for input on how to best design a console language for Jazz Jackrabbit 2. Having a console program for Jazz Jackrabbit 2 would definitely make multiplayer Jazz more livable. Your input is valued.
In the Jazz2Online section nobody reads and nobody uses (besides the encyclopedia), RabbitJournal, there’s been some actual action in the form of new posts (that is, non-“Hello!” posts). None are deeply interesting yet, but maybe if I nag people at the frontpage to post things there and to use it, it will pick up some more steam. Probably, adding comments functionality would do more for the journal’s activity, so I’ll hope I or somebody else gets around to adding it.
Slaz’s announcement about his new site is exactly the kind of thing it was made for. If you have news of the type that is generally not posted to the frontpage, like site news, or news about new levelpacks, things of that sort, do post it there. As you can see, it may actually be picked up in news posts at the frontpage, for additional publicity.
Also, the interesting hoaxes topic on the JCF, in which people post fabricated screenshots of the game, is growing more active again, with some interesting shots being posted.
Trivial all, but this is better than no news.
You can now find a latest encyclopedia updates panel in your Adjust Panels screen.
J2B Figured Out - September 13th 2005
Dr. Eggman has posted an article describing how to decompile .j2b files (Jazz2‘s unique music format). This includes C++ sourcecode, therefore it is highly technical. There isn’t any method to convert the decompiled data to another tracker format just yet.
You can comment in the article itself or discuss it in this JCF thread.
(This is the worst place to comment. ~Violet)
New Poll - September 6th 2005
It suddenly occured to me that I was trying to have polls be a monthly thing. Only overshot by a few days. Here’s the results for last time around:
Who would you most like to see star in their own game?
Spaz Jackrabbit – 34 Votes (29%)
Lori Jackrabbit – 7 Votes (6%)
Eva Earlong – 10 Votes (9%)
Zoe Cottontail – 1 Votes (1%)
Devan Shell – 15 Votes (13%)
Razz a ma Tazz – 9 Votes (8%)
Bilsy – 1 Votes (1%)
Zoonik the Hedgehog – 6 Votes (5%)
Trafton – 30 Votes (26%)
(Other) – 3 Votes (3%)
Total votes: 116
As some of us might have expected, Spaz won, followed by Devan Shell and Eva Earlong. Looks like the old characters are the favorites. I do find myself wondering who the three “Other” votes were for.
A new poll is up already. I have a feeling the last option will win, though.
Featured download - September 3rd 2005
This month’s featured download is Coral Coves by FireSworD. Crysilis World by Dr. Eggman and Toxic and Lavapolis by NOKA also came close to getting the feature, so you might want to give those a download as well.
Treasure hunt is a well-liked gametype that lacks lots of good levels as opposed to CTF and battle. Coral Coves might be the best treasure hunt level I have ever played. It takes place in a series of underwater maze-liked tunnels filled with tons of gems, enough to make this level work well even with 16 players. There aren’t just gems here, though. You’ll have to avoid enemies while collecting gems. If you get hurt by one, you won’t be able to collect gems temporarilly. Of course, if you don’t want there to be enemies, you can host the lite version, but what fun is that?
As you can see from the screenshot included, the eyecandy here is great. There isn’t a dull place in the level.
If you like treasure hunt, you should definitely download this. If you don’t like treasure hunt, you should probably download it anyway, because you might start liking it after you play this level.