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Chevalier? Oui! -Sared- Jun 28 10:13pm -48 comments- |
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Congratulations to Odan-Wei on sucessfully completing his Knight Trial! Not to mention becoming our first French JAK+! He completely blew us away with the first part, and showed a great attitude during the rest of his trial! Mad props to you man! Que la Force soit avec toi! (May the Force be with you!) |
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Site update fun fiesta! -DJ Sith- Jun 27 05:48pm -11 comments- |
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I've been going through adding little tweaks to the site and fixing bugs and such. One thing to note is that we are no longer using the old hotmail account. If you need to get in touch with us please email fixthejediacademy [at] thejediacademy [dot] net. There's a thread on the forums tracking bugs. Please post there if you notice anything odd. Thanks! |
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The_Academy v2 interview! -Sared- Jun 24 03:36pm -36 comments- |
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This just in from Tido! Good job matey! While on IRC today, Virtue was kind enough to take time out of his busy schedule to talk about Version 2 of the Academy’s Official Map. Tido: So Mr. Virtue, what inspired you to make V2 of the map? Virtue: Cos I'm a perfectionist, and I've grown to hate v1 . Tido: Will the look of the map be the same? Or can we expect a new theme? Virtue: The theme of the Map is the same; however, the lighting is better. Some areas have changed. IE, The Fortress, Vladarion's Garden, The Pit, and the Main Hall. Tido: Can you describe as best you can the changes to those areas? Virtue: Minor changes have been made to quite a few other areas, but the ones I just mentioned are the vastest. I want to keep much of it a surprise. I have added a few secrets into the Map and I want everyone to find them themselves . Tido: How do you feel about the_academy and its popularity out in the pubs? Virtue: I think it's awesome and I'm really chuffed about it. It shows how much the Jedi Academy influences the public really. The Map can only be found here, it's not on PCgamemods, Massassi or JK3Files. This is the only place people can get it. Tido: Do you have any long term plans for a major redesign of the Academy's Official Map? Virtue: Hard to say. I'm always getting new ideas. Heck, when we were working on Beta 3 of the Old map, we decided that we hated it and that we wanted to start over. So I mapped the map we have now in under 3 days. Then purposely made Beta 3 into a shamble fest and we released it as a joke, heh. But depending on what the future brings, and what type of facilities the Academy needs, who knows? As long as everyone enjoys what I do, I'll keep on doing it. Tido: Lastly, when can we expect V2 to be out? Virtue: I made the mistake of giving out time frames when working on the Beta Maps, and it just lead me to be more stressed and unfocussed. So there is no real deadline to when Version 2 will come out. But if I were to make an approximation, I'd say within the next few weeks. Tido: Thank you so much for your time Virtue. the_academy is an awesome map and it's exciting to think that you are making an even better on. There is no way to describe how lucky we are to have you. Virtue: Well, if it wasn't me, it'd be someone else. Thanks a lot bud. Click here for a teaser screenshot! |
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And that's it for another year -Virtue- Jun 23 06:25pm -24 comments- |
Well, this year's Prom sure was a blast, personally, I loved every minute of it. I don't tihnk I've ever spent as much time on the Servers hopping around and enjoying myself as I did last weekend, it was awsome.  I hope everyone else had a whale of a time aswell. It braught everyone together and we all had a great time dancing, chatting, playing R2D2 Soccer and just having a hell of a lot of fun. I just want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who was involved; SilkMonkey; For organising it all and making sure that ultimately, everything went smoothly. For finding most of the Music tracks that we used and for generally giving me a kick in the rear to make sure the Map, Advertising and general planning of it kept on making progress. Odan-Wei; For taking the time to make most of the textures that made the prom map unique and special. 90% of that map was textured in Odan's creations and it would not have had the same kick to it if not for him. Thank you very much Odan. DJ Sith; This guy was in Chicago when the Prom was launched, but he still made time to help us out by getting the Music and Map files uploaded so that you could get them easily, putting the Map and Music files onto the Servers and optimising the Servers so that alot more of you could come and have fun. Thanks alot DJ, you pwn. massadoobie; For taking time off of his vacation to join the Servers and help me launch it and make sure everyone was having fun. Thank you doobs, you ruleth! And finally. I want to thank each and every one of you. Thank you all for your support and appreciation through this. Thank you for coming along and partying with us. Thank you for making the Prom what it was - Two solid days of pure fun, hilarity, awsomeness and chicken dancing. We could not have done this without you. I know alot of you took many Screenshots and Demos this year. So, to all the people that have them, please E-Mail me some of the best shots and demos you have, and I'll sort us out with an Official Prom picture page or something. I plan on doing this quite soon, so please, if you have any shots of the Prom, get them to me asap. Once again, I thank you all. edit: Virtue, you're dead sexeh, mr map man... three w00ts for virty! w00t w00t w00t! and a m000 on top! |
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First Commercial Space Flight! -Sared- Jun 22 05:48am -27 comments- |
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If you are viewing this site, you like Star Wars. Meaning that to some degree or another, you are a geek. You might range from uber-geek, to has-social-skills geek, but you are still a geek. Therefore, news like this interests you. This HOT off the press! SpaceShipOne, the first commercial space flight. Officials are still checking radar data to confirm the final altitude -- but unofficially, SpaceShipOne became the first privately funded rocket ship to carry a human into space Monday morning. The final stage of the flight soared approximately 62 miles high, past the "official" mile marker for the edge of space. -NPR news Original Story SpaceShipOne was piloted by Mike Melvill, and the entire project was funded and completed for a little under $100,000,000 United States Dollars/$50,000,000 United Kingdom Pounds. Which is relatively cheap when put into the scope of the global economy. Thats it. The first commercial entrance into space. Give us another thirty years until we get the final vacation plans to the moon ironed out for good. |
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Congratulations to our newest Coffe...er Knight!! -Buzz- Jun 21 05:10am -49 comments- |
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Everyone be sure to Congratulate the newest addition to our Knights Javaguy!!! He worked very hard to get this and he is very deserving of the honor. Congratulations man! |
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The Jedi Academy Prom 2004 IS HERE!! -Virtue- Jun 19 08:22pm -23 comments- |
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YAY!! Okay guys. Grab your date, your bottle of alkeehole and your dancing shoes and get your butts to the Servers for some toe-tapping, bum-wiggling, chicken-dancing FUN!! Get the Map Here. HAVE A BLAST AND TAKE LOTS OF PICTURES!! WEEEE!! New Version of JAR for the Prom with emotes! amsit, amsit2, amwait, amsurrender, amquiet, amjig (my fav) and amhug. |
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The time for Partying is nigh... -Virtue- Jun 18 06:28pm -34 comments- |
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w00t!! Everything is proceeding as I have forseen. The JA Prom 2004 will launch tomorrow (Saturday) at 8:00pm GMT. I'm going to try to gather everyone into our main IRC Channel first, then set up the Map on the Servers, then announce the link here in a News post. When everyone has downloaded the Map and gets onto the Servers, we will have a short launching ceremony before we start to parteh!  So, I hope everyone will be taking lots of pictures and making one or two demos so that we can remeber this one in the future. It's gonna be a blast! |
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Server Updates -Sared- Jun 17 06:51am -23 comments- |
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We are in the process of cleaning up the game servers of some cluttered space and are currently going through all the current skins to see which are most used, and which are least used. If you would like to help, you post here about one of the skins that you think we should remove from the server, or you can visit JK3Files and find a skin that you think would be a good addition to the servers. At the moment, we only have a small update, Syntax Error, which won the latest Academy skinning compeitition.  |
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Calling all artists! -DJ Sith- Jun 17 01:37am -4 comments- |
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This has been going on for a while, but we're finally going to wrap up the JA logo contest. That's right. We're putting our little brand on stuff from mugs to shirts to mousepads. The proceeds from this will go into our little fund for tournament prizes and server upgrades. If you want the world to see your design and you think you can hack it then check out this forum thread. The contest is over on the 22nd, so get creative! I want to see some good designs! |
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