Open-source Jazz Jackrabbit 2 reimplementation

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Introduction

Jazz² Resurrection is reimplementation of the game Jazz Jackrabbit 2 released in 1998. Supports various versions of the game (Shareware Demo, Holiday Hare '98, The Secret Files and Christmas Chronicles). Also, it partially supports some features of JJ2+ extension and MLLE. This repository contains fully rewritten game in C++ with better performance and many improvements. Further information can be found here.

Preview

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Running the application

Windows

• Download the game
• Copy original Jazz Jackrabbit 2 directory to ‹Game›\Source\
• Run ‹Game›\Jazz2.exe, ‹Game›\Jazz2_avx2.exe or ‹Game›\Jazz2_sdl2.exe application

‹Game› is path to Jazz² Resurrection. Cache is recreated during intro cinematics on the first startup, so it can't be skipped.

Linux

• Download the game
• Install dependencies: sudo apt install libglew2.2 libglfw3 libopenal1 libopenmpt0
• Copy original Jazz Jackrabbit 2 directory to ‹Game›/Source/
• Run ‹Game›/jazz2 or ‹Game›/jazz2_sdl2 application

‹Game› is path to Jazz² Resurrection. Cache is recreated during intro cinematics on the first startup, so it can't be skipped.

^{Alternatively, you can use package for your Linux distribution:}

Web (Emscripten)

• Go to http://deat.tk/jazz2/wasm/
• Import episodes from original Jazz Jackrabbit 2 directory to unlock additional content

Android

• Download the game
• Copy Content directory to ‹Storage›/Android/data/jazz2.resurrection/files/Content/
• Copy original Jazz Jackrabbit 2 directory to ‹Storage›/Android/data/jazz2.resurrection/files/Source/
• Install Jazz2.apk or Jazz2_x86-64.apk on the device
• Run the newly installed application

‹Storage› is usually internal storage on your device. The game requires device with Android 5.0 (or newer) and OpenGL ES 3.0 support. Cache is recreated during intro cinematics on the first startup, so it can't be skipped.

Xbox (Universal Windows Platform)

• Download the game
• Install Jazz2.cer certificate (the application is self-signed)
• Install Jazz2.msixbundle package
• Run the newly installed application
• Copy original Jazz Jackrabbit 2 directory to destination shown in the main menu
• Run the application again

Building the application

Windows

• Download build dependencies to .\Libs\
• Open the solution in Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 (or newer) and build it
  • CMake is not recommended for Windows build

Linux

• Build dependencies will be downloaded automatically by CMake
  • Can be disabled with NCINE_DOWNLOAD_DEPENDENCIES option, then download build dependencies manually to ./Libs/
  • In case of build errors, install following packages (or equivalent for your distribution):
    libgl1-mesa-dev libglew-dev libglfw3-dev libsdl2-dev libopenal-dev libopenmpt-dev zlib1g-dev
• Build the solution with CMake
  • Run ./BuildLinuxGcc.sh (GLFW) or ./BuildLinuxGcc_SDL2.sh (SDL2) to build with GCC compiler
  • Run ./BuildLinuxClang.sh to build with Clang compiler

Web (Emscripten)

• Install Emscripten SDK (preferably to ../emsdk/)

cd ..
git clone https://github.com/emscripten-core/emsdk.git
cd emsdk
./emsdk install latest
./emsdk activate latest

• Build dependencies will be downloaded automatically by CMake
  • Can be disabled with NCINE_DOWNLOAD_DEPENDENCIES option, then download build dependencies manually to ./Libs/
• Put required game files to ./Content/ directory – the files must be provided in advance
• Build the solution with CMake
  • Run ./BuildEmscripten.sh to build with Emscripten toolchain

Android

• Install Android SDK (preferably to ../android-sdk/)
• Install Android NDK (preferably to ../android-ndk/)
• Install Gradle (preferably to ../gradle/)
• Build dependencies will be downloaded automatically by CMake
  • Can be disabled with NCINE_DOWNLOAD_DEPENDENCIES option, then download build dependencies manually to ./Libs/
• Build the solution with CMake
  • Run ./BuildAndroid.sh or ./BuildAndroid_x86-64.sh to build APK for Android
  • Run ./BuildAndroidSign.sh to sign built APKs
    • Keystore file Keystore.jks must exist in repository root

Xbox (Universal Windows Platform)

• Build dependencies will be downloaded automatically by CMake
  • Can be disabled with NCINE_DOWNLOAD_DEPENDENCIES option, then download build dependencies manually to .\Libs\
• Run .\BuildUwp.bat to create Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 (or newer) solution

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3.0.

This project uses modified nCine game engine released under the following license:

Copyright (c) 2011-2022 Angelo Theodorou

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