Jake2 is pure Java port of the Quake2 game engine.
With the new release savegames are working. So you can take a break on your mission. Besides savegames ther are a lot of other improvements like command line completion in console, better fullscreen vidmode selection, improved performance and many bugfixes.
so go ahead and test yourself.
This game should be published on Java Games Factory.
[quote]This game should be published on Java Games Factory.
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My thoughts exactly; but we’re still waiting for them to make a webstart version. The issues of user needing to download map files separately have already been discussed, but that could be solved various ways.
e.g. off the top of my head: All we need is a webstart that downloads the game, runs, and if it can’t find a pre-downloaded resource file (c.f. muffins on this board) from a previous run, it pops up some kind of dialog to say “hey, you need to download a set of levels; id won’t let us package this ourselves (not even the demo), so you need to download it to your hard disk. When you’ve done that, click the browse button below, select where you downloaded it, and I’ll use that from now on”. (c.f. WurmOnline’s post-install system for selective downloading of texture packs etc).
Of course, if there were some set of resources that could be legally included in the jake webstart, that would be even better…
Good ideas! 
Why not distributing a map file created by someone else? Maybe they already created one themselves. This way you resolve liscence issues.
You could use tha quake2 demo no?
I’m guessing that means no.
Maybe. My memory from the days of older id games and e.g. the OpenGL-Doom etc was that you weren’t allowed to re-distribute the resource files for games except as part of offering the demo for download…
We asked id software if we are allowed to bundle the demo maps with jake2. The answer was a clear no.
A webstart version will be available shortly. It will allow you to select the baseq2 directory of the a preinstalled full or demo version or if it is not already on diskt the automatic download and installation of the demo files.
Holger