The Force Engine
A modern cross‑platform port of “STAR WARS™: Dark Forces” with mod support
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io.github.theforceengine.tfe“The Force Engine” is a modernised, reverse engineered port of the “Jedi Engine” used in “STAR WARS™: Dark Forces” and “Outlaws”. Currently, only “STAR WARS™: Dark Forces” is supported but there are already many technical and quality‑of‑life improvements:
- Controller support (except in menus)
- Support for mouselook like in modern first‑person shooters
- Complete input remapping for in‑game controls
- Widescreen and high‑resolution support
- Texture filtering and bloom effects on light sources
- Subtitles for dialog (including in‑game incidental dialog)
- Closed captioning for important audio cues in the game
- Translation support for subtitles/captions
- A built‑in mod loader
Future plans include built‑in tools for creating mods and maps for the games as well as Outlaws support.
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Release notes supplied by the developer. These dates are not Flathub package publication times.
1.22.42010 Sept 2025
A second hot-fix to address issues with features introduced in version 1.22.400, along with a few other fixes/changes.
1.22.4109 Sept 2025
Unfortunately I borked the saves with the last release, so this is a quick follow-up to fix things.
1.22.4009 Sept 2025
Ongoing changes to the level editor and renderer, such as slope support, are not included in this release - they are still a work in progress. Instead this release is meant to capture many community contributions made in the last few months, especially the numerous modding enhancements by @jerethk and fixes and quality of life improvements by @ifeldshteyn.
1.22.30030 Mar 2025
Iterative TFE editor release and TFE game update.