Star Wars DroidWorks: Robot Abomination Simulator

Mac84

Love it! I grew up playing this game on our Mac. I wonder if those glitches of going up ramps and such were still there on the Mac version? I know you mentioned you tried the game on different systems, but did you have a Mac to try it on?

floverSaeu09

ahhaaha this video was hilarious!!! xD

Purple Tentacle

I love the Jedi Knight/Mysteries of the Sith engine. I did so much editing of the .cog files back in the day so that you could play as different characters in the single player. The graphics have certainly aged, but it has a place in my heart.

LGR

Thanks!

LGR

Nope, no patches and no re-releases to date!

Would've loved this as a kid. I can imagine just making up my own stories and building your own droids! what more could a young 90's kid ask for?

Evan B

i assume this was never fixed in any ports? gog perhaps?

Anders Enger Jensen

WHAM! 😜 😂

Amazing video, keep up the great work.

Lindsay Michelle

AHHH SO MUCH HOLO MY EYES But I see the Star Wars video was timed for Star Wars Celebration this week (and 40 years of Star Wars)! Good timing is good. Too bad this game has glitches up the wazoo...

Kris Asick

Would you believe this game won NUMEROUS educational awards? I'm trying to figure out how... especially considering most school computers at the time wouldn't've been powerful enough to run this and most parents with powerful-enough computers would've already been buying non-educational games. :P

LGR

Yeah it's an unfortunate set of issues with this one, really holds it back from being a timeless edutainment classic

LGR

Thanks! I never had problems running it on my Bondi G3 with 64MB RAM, but it seems there were enough users on 32MB machines having problems that they included that red slip of paper to tell them to enable virtual memory.

The 8-Bit Guy

Great video. What was the deal with getting it to work on the iMac?

Rob Caporetto

The Force is not strong with this one it would seem :( Which is a shame - the engine jank would be 'forgivable' had they built a new engine, but being based on Jedi Knight's is a bit of a shame - I don't remember any jank there. Otherwise, it might actually have been a rad edutainment piece (though I would have been too old when it originally came out anyway…)

LGR

It'd be excellent with a physics engine like Besiege or Kerbal Space Program

LGR

Glad to have finally covered it, too! It's been requested for years

Zem Hysong

I'd love to see a new Droidworks in Unreal Engine 4, or Unity, even. These games always show promise, but end up ruined because of stupid bugs, but more recent engines show some real promise. Just look at Besiege.

Melonking

They had this at my after school place, there was that one kid who was hella cool and did the actual missions and everyone else just played the testing room looking for "secrets" and making weird droids. I'm glad to see it finally covered :D