Star Wars DroidWorks: Robot Abomination Simulator
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- Lucas Learning's first edutainment game from 1998! Nobody needed to see what it'd look like if beloved Star Wars droids had a terrifying lovechild together, but here you can. Shame that it's also a bit broken.
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Jar Jar's Journey was released in 1999, the same year as Episode 1. It looks like they were REALLY counting on Anakin and Jar Jar being popular.
Among the target demographic of "children ages 4 and up," they were quite popular indeed and they sold a ton of stuff. Folks seem to overlook that large portions of Star Wars was made for kids, especially the prequels.
So we adults ruin all the fun then?
Yes, the adults ruined it. I was born in 1993, TPM was my foundation for understanding the Star Wars Universe, but I fell out of that interest because you couldn't talk about TPM unless you wanted to parrot a list of ~5 basic complaints.
George always saw Star Wars as 'just a kids thing', people forget that when they look back to the original films and fail to discount the lens of childhood which it was first seen through.
I would say it was a lack of focus that ruin it. I do actually like that Star Wars can be for kids. But you need to weight it right. (And besides to me Jar Jar did not really ruin Star Wars. The telling of Anakins fall was so badly done that this really ruined the prequels. I mean that love story was at best creepy and at worst totally devoid of any emotion at all.)
Star Wars is such a expansive world of fantasy that you can tell many stories. Some stories can be aimed more for kids. And other can target a more adult audience. I think the many Star Wars games that where made showed pretty well how wide you can go. The many ways you could explore this fictional universe.
I was 11 when I saw it in theatres. I'm actually surprised that Jar Jar and Anakin were popular with kids since I remember even the younger kids in the audience not liking them. They were more mesmerized by the lights art fights and the space battles. Oh and the pod racing. Can't forget the pod racing.
STAY ON TARGET!
There's... two many of them!
HistoricaHungarica They came from, behind!
LOOSEN UP!!! *orgasm*
"It's a hit?!"
"Negative negative, it didn't go in..."
lgr is low key hilarious 😂
Well, they missed a golden opportunity by not calling it LucasSmarts...
Classic
As long as it's not LucasSharts.
I never even noticed that. Nice
Oh my god youre right
I loved this game. And never had to deal with weird physics glitches!
Maybe the computer you had at the time was fitted with a magical set of hardware that made the game function properly
You probably had the imac
I didn't have any issues bad enough to have remembered either. I think it worked better if you had just the right hardware, and some of us didn't know how lucky we were.
yea same i had it on my windows pc at home AND got my 4th grade teacher to let me install it on the mac at school, never had any issues
gotta be some kinda compatibility issue
It's based on framerate. The physics work fine at ~30fps. At 60fps and beyond, ramps become increasingly impassible.
Oh god, this was one of the very few games I had played as a kid.
I don't know if I'll be able to handle this nostalgia bomb.
Shane McZane right
oh man, this game makes me want a spore game, but with robots instead of creatures.
Or dude, imagine a game like Kerbal Space Program or Besiege with Star Wars droid items. It'd be fantastic with a solid physics engine.
Lazy Game Reviews totally! that'd be awesome!
I do hope they officially add more robotics to KSP. But there tons of good mods for that.
Do you think it HAS to be Star Wars droids? I mean, obviously that would add a delicious layer of charm to it all, but since using the Star Wars IP is impossible these days, could something that's basically a functional Droidworks without the glitches and Star Wars veneer still work?
That can to some degree be achieved with mods. I tried it. But yeah, doesn't really work since it's still Spore... They still hatch from eggs and don't do robot things and all that. But it was fun to build semi-robot creatures in the Creature Creator.
...Of course the downside was that the game would, in ordinary Spore fashion, throw my robot creatures into my worlds. In the Tribal Phase my tribe was always being terrorized by "wild animals" in the form of flying death machines with laser cannons for arms.
That box is brighter than my future.
The Chaos Dragoness yeah, if you're rolling with team skull!
Droidworks is actually a thing a Disney World. You can basically build all of these and take them home as souvenirs. :)
Democritus86 If the parts are mix and match they wouldn't need 3d printers, just stocks of all the parts.
That's still cheaper and more efficient at large enough scales.
Democritus86 no they just have tons of parts to pick from
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Yeah. They do it at Disneyland in California as well.
3D printing anything even the smallest thing takes a very long time, it would not be time or cost effective. They are best really for one of things at the minute
@@aperson854 yes world is Florida Land is California.
FWIW, many of the engine bugs were far less severe on hardware existent at the time. The engine just lost the gamble on forward compatibility. (especially the edge-between-two-surfaces issue) The physics bugs were MUCH less present on W98SE and a P3 era system.
I played it aeons aho when it was already old but still ran perfectly and it was fantastic.
The level design is almost on par with Jedi Knight Dark Forces 2.
talking about bugs in a physics-based educational game, this man must have never played Kerbal Space Program
I got nostalgic when first watching this, and rooted through my old CDs to see if I still had the copy from childhood.
Didn't find it, my older brother has it, but he sent me a copy of the iso.
Playing it on modern computers was like liding while recording, then speeding up the footage by about seven times.
So, yeah, you need old hardware (or software limiters to make high tech appear old) to play this game, which is unfortunate.
I wonder if Steam could get the rights to publish it alongside the other old LucasArts games...
@@gearhead743 Those aren't glitches
Learning how to contend with the eldritch abomination that is the Kraken is a core gameplay feature
@@Skorpeonismyrealname I just replayed it this weekend. You can try and use the program dxwnd. The main problem with the physics is that these are tied to the fps. So you can set a delay between the frames with dxwnd and you are good to go. I had some very minor bugs but nothing gamebreaking at all. Played it through in one go :)
Jawa in the sky. I can go twice as high. Take a look. What's in a droid. It's Starwars DroidWorks!
Damn, that box has more colors than my soul
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souls don't have colors, I think
Dammit, should've said that the box is brighter than my soul
Your soul is RED WHITE'N'BLUE
Cheeseburger Freedom Man It would have more colours than mine as well, if I had one.
Also, I hope you win in 2020. LEGALISATION OF WEED!
I had and still have this game! I remember I enjoyed building droids way more than playing the actual game (that could be because English isn't my native language, and so as a kid I had almost no idea what I was supposed to do :D)
...I also remember the terrifying assassin droid you had to run away from in some mission. That thing appearing out of nowhere scared the shit out of me every time.
TheWRYYYYYYY i never even finished the training missions xD
I was also terrified of the assassin droids. I did not usually leave the testing zone.
This is so funny I was terrified of the droids too! I remember that once I had to do those missions, I couldn't stop looking behind me or the feeling of terror. Then, when I would replay the other missions I was still scared that it could be around a corner. I'm so happy that I wasn't the only scared kid!
Droid works was always secretly a horror game
Glad to hear I wasn't the only one terrified by the assassin droid.... that thing is made of nightmares. But to my credit I did finish the mission. It took alot of mental buildup to do it, but I did it. Modern day horror games have nothing on that sinister droid.
Oh man I had this game for Mac along with "the gungan frontier" it was slim pickings for a star wars fan with a Mac. Great video!
LGR is such a gem on youtube. Extremely simple format with excellent content and the result is a wonderful channel that has everything that a youtube channel should have with no extra crap.
Dog. droidworks is a masterpiece when played on a CPU slow enough that it can perform as intended. You saying you won't play it again makes me sad. You need to do this game right by figuring out how to get it to run properly, because I promise you, this game is one of the very best when everything works properly.
How DO you run it properly on a modern PC? I've been trying on and off to figure that out for the past ten years.
He should try it on an iMac G3, game runs well on those old PowerPC Mac computers
How slow does it has to be to work properly?
@@spockthelogical I just replayed it this weekend. You can try and use the program dxwnd. The main problem with the physics is that these are tied to the fps. So you can set a delay between the frames with dxwnd and you are good to go. I had some very minor bugs but nothing gamebreaking at all. Played it through in one go :)
@@spockthelogical Oh, I almost forgot. you want to aim at about 30 fps! :)
Damn, I miss the times when game packages had a lot of content and effort put into them. Today you don't even get a manual.
You are lucky to even get meaningful physical media sometimes. MGSV's PC version came with a DVD case with a printed code on a sticker inside of it.
I want my gaming manuals! No one reads the read me, I want a hard back instruction booklet I can fap over on the bus home from town!
@@sosomadman pay extra.
some computer parts don't even come with a full manual, heck my chair had two seperate instructions one for the chair and ONE for the arm rest pieces which the chair instructions EXPECTED You to know and already have the 3 part sets of the armrest already built...
Oh man, I remember playing this game as a kid
I was the guy who wrote the Wikipedia article on this game and got it featured on the main page. So stoked to see you give it your own spin. :D
Thank you for your service (against ignorance)!
It's amazing how often I look up a Wikipedia account and see that it's blocked
Hahaha, oh lord, the nostalgia brought back by watching you struggle to get up those inclines is too much. I adored this game as a child.
Duuude, I want A Jar Jar's Journey review sooo bad! :D
maxmetalknight agreed
I never got my Jar Jar cartoon, that Lucas promised, so at least there's that :D
The Gungan Frontier was an interesting Lucas Learning game since it was an ecology management simulator and I don't see many people talk about it. Basically Boss Nass wants the Gungans to colonize Naboo's moon but it doesn't have an ecosystem to support a colony so you play as either Obi-Wan or Queen Amidala and you collect plants, herbivores, and carnivores from the Star Wars universe, set up an ecosystem, and then tell the Gungan's how much of each species they can harvest so that you can balance the demands of a growing Gungan civilization without causing your hard-won ecosystem to collapse. It was really smart, really hard, and really rewarding.
Thank you for saving my morning.
Thanks for watching!
I played this game like crazy back in the early 2000's and absolutely adored everything about it. I was about 6-7 at the time so I either never really noticed most of the glitchyness or just thought it was part of the game. If I had to go back and try to play through it now I would probably hate it. Good video tho.
Jar jar binks, lord of hatred
ProtoMario Sith Lord*
I often fall asleep to your great videos at night, and not due to boredom either. You have the perfect soothing narrator voice!
jawas live in the desert because they're looking for a hot time
lucas learning, WHAT
Now I REALLY want to see the other star wars educational games I think I'll go search for some videos now.
This game is almost like a spiritual predecessor to Kerbal Space Program. You build something to accomplish a particular goal, then try to do it with what you built. If anything goes wrong, you iterate on your design until you get it right.
The game Besiege is quite similar as well. It's definitely a subgenre that's taken off in recent years!
Ryan Rardin I would say it's more like Spore
I just bought Besiege the other day. A friend showed me _Kerbal Space Program_ (awesome game btw, check it out, you'll like it) and that reminded me of you dabbling with Besiege some months ago.
It's now just over €5 on Steam. Get it while it's cheap!
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Also Robocraft
@7:33 I laughed harder at this part than almost any other youtube video ever. that was great
9:56 Does the certificate say "DICKWUTK"?
The Aurebesh actually translates to "oiqattea" I think, but...
Now I need Aurabesh for my fonts collection. Thanks! (Genuinely)
yes, it does
gasp! Droidworks Nostradamus-predicted Dickbutt!
I had this on a PowerPC Mac back in the day and it ran perfectly. I remember loving this game to bits.
Had this game as a kid and loved it. Ran it on my iMac and never ran into a single bug, so I'm pretty sure the technical difficulties you ran into were the fault of the computer and not the program.
Ah man, I played this game as a kid. This is like a blast from the past. Damn.
10:08 what was with those late 90's morphing textures?
It's a fascinating topic and it has to do with how the software renderer cheaply maps textures without perspective correction! A bit much to explain in a comment, but here ya go:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texture_mapping#Perspective_correctness
You can see that a lot in old PS1 games, especially anything with a 1st person mode where you can get right up against a wall, like MGS. It went away as 3D acceleration became standard.
Yes, it was very distinctive of the PS1. Perspective distortion is mainly in mid 90's shooters, a different type of distortion to PS1.
Z-buffering and perspective-correct textures were some of the things that the N64 had that the PS1 didn't. Unfortunately, the N64 also had over-aggressive texture filtering, which kind of evened it out.
Also, while quickly doing some research to find out whether that was as true as I remembered, I found out that the 'warping' effect I remembered actually has to do with the PS1 not having the ability to perform floating-point operations, it could only use integers (or whole numbers) to calculate the positions of whichever effect/polygon/vertex was being used. This meant that the vertices would often be warped, because there wasn't enough precision in the calculation to put everything in the 100% correct place.
Not only warped but often switching back and forth between different positions.
Hey Clint.. tomorrow is the 10 year anniversary of the LGR. So here's to the next 10 years of Lazy Game Reviews!
I loved this game so much. I was just annoyed that it seemed to run on the same engine as Jedi Knight, but they didn't let you set your resolution so people with nicer PCs were stuck with ugly low res graphics. Still was an awesome game and the funky dance button always made me laugh. Thanks for the nostalgia trip.
Games giving you certificates for beating them need to come back. I don't know why, but I love it.
I used to rent this from my library all the time.
I remember playing this very enjoyable game. When we got a newer computer the physics didn't work right, it was impossible to go up all but the shallowest of slopes.
Watching this and the Lego Island reviews not only brought back memories, but an idea: ever heard of a game called Dog Day by Eyst? Was one of many Myst-like point-and-clickers but really strange looking. If you get your hands on it, review it!
I was addicted to this game as a kid and yeah, the physics were a pain in the ass.
"Stay on target!" Funny enough I totally remember playing this in elementary school, very faintly though. I haven't thought of this until today.
Dude, this game was sooooo good. I don't know if it was less buggy on old hardware or it's just my memory has faded, but I don't remember the glitches being nearly as much of a problem as you describe.
Chock-E the Chipmunk Jawa @ 4:05. "Your Droid needs to get through the door at the top of the cliff. btw YOUR BREAKFAST CEREAL TASTES LIKE GRAVEL!"
That box is fricking beautiful...I'll gladly burn out my retinas looking at it
That Jar Jar game sounds right up your alley, Clint!
Seems like this game could stand an update or a remake.
I played this loads when I was about 7 or 8 though I never managed to finish it. I never worked out why those slopes were so darn difficult! Now I know :D (I used to think you needed a more powerful part I didn't have yet). Many good memories.
Stay on target lol
That Lucas logo @ :32 is on a FBI watch list. The spiral is very specific past the point of coincidence.
I am thinking Lucas is one of Ghislane's pals.
I work in IT and manage two school districts. In one of the desk of the office I found a copy of these game. Had never heard about it until that discovery lol.
Many moons ago, I played the demo version of this, from the Star Wars: Pit Droids game, to hell and back... Ohh, memories...
When I was a smallish child entity the physics for this game worked fine. Though it should be noted that the producers sort of regret not making a new engine for this game.
"Unpredictable Glitchy Garbage"
I'd wear that on a T-shirt. :-)
The Sith engine! Some great games there. Recognized some Jedi Knight assets in this one, haha. That was the engine that got me into level design. Good times.
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Waking up to an LGR video is the best feeling ever. Love ya, Clint.
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I used to have this game back when I was 8-ish, but DAMN, I wish I had it with that shiny-as-all-hell outer box!
Come to see Star Wars, leave to see Daisy Duke & Elly May Clampett.
Interesting that warning to mac users as I played this game on a mac as a kid, and definitely didn't get any of those physics glitches. Though the gameplay was still just as infuriating. You should review Starwars Pitdroids next, another one I loved as a kid, that one actually works fine on modern pcs.
They made the Gonk droid sound like C-3PO? o.O ........WHAM!
oh yes! I DO knew this when it was new, so awesome (as a child)
This is one of those games that I saw advertised many times, but never got around to ever playing despite wanting it.
Still got my dusty disk :)
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I am holo and proud
"stay on target!", simply hilarious!!
1:34 Mandela Effect residue, C-3PO was ALL GOLD. For many of us, he never had silver leg. Thank you, LGR.
9:54 as well
They left that droid hangin' on like a yo-yo
The "stay on target" had me chuckling a good bit :-D
I got this game from a book-fair when I was in a kid.
I thought it was the shit, and played it on what was, in hindsight, a proto-tablet my dad used for work.
Siriausly? No one posted a snarky retort on his comment?
Ellie Mae, Daisy Duke, and Wham! all in one review of a Star Wars "game!?" You just won the Internet, LGR!
I played the shit out of this as a kid in the early 2000s. Didn't speak any english, so I had no idea you could even test the robots until I found the button after months.
I forgot this game existed, I played a bit back when I was a kid
I think that's a munchkin dressed as a jawa. Follow the yellow brick road.
Man, this was our jam.
played this as a kid, loved it.
After 3 years it's still difficult to STAY ON TARGET.... Damn...
Love your videos man! Keep up the excellent work cheers
This game seems like one of the most amazing ideas ever on paper. Everything about this game is just begging to me updated and tried again in the modern age.
Hey LGR! I know occasionally you have "edutainment" games in your reviews. I was remembering one from my childhood and wondering if you had ever seen it. It's called "My First Encyclopedia". It's a sort of click on things and watch things happen, sort of game. But it teaches children about astronomy, animals, insects, artwork, and lots of other stuff. It's all under the guise of a sort of massive, magic treehouse that you can scroll up and down.
Does this sound familiar at all to you? I loved it a lot when I was a kid, it was just a little CD-ROM game from the 90's.
Dude, I use to love this game! It was installed on my grandparent's old computer and I remember my siblings and I would play it all the time before they got a new computer. Man, the nostalgia lol
Huh, I don't really remember it being that glitchy tho. Then again it was a long time ago, plus I didn't play too many levels. Or maybe we just pretty much ignored it lol
Speaking of wonky physics, please do a video on Trespasser!
I'm surprised that you had this much trouble with Droidworks. I mean, I had a ton of trouble when I did my Let's Play several years ago (th-cam.com/video/VxfPy2VzR8w/w-d-xo.html), but you showed off some glitched that I've never experienced (such as clipping through boxes), and I recall the experience being smooth on my old Gateway Pentium II that I originally played on back in the day.
I wonder if the "fix" you found of asking Cam-E for help will still work if you have her muted... If so, there's an effective, albeit a bit annoying, way to reliably play the game, which is more than I had when I did my Let's Play.
Aw you should have talked about how scary the assassin droids were for kids! Seriously, to this day, I have dreams they're chasing me.
I remember playing this game at the Museum of Science in Boston, but my family sucked and never let me do anything I wanted to and pulled me away after only like 5 minutes. We just HAD to see every single fucking exhibit in the museum, instead of spending meaningful time with each individual one.
Rant over.
1:47 *Did I see Jazz Jackrabbit 2 ... Jazz Jackrabbit 2 ... JaZz JaCkRaBbIt 2 ... JAZZ JACKRABBIT 2 ... JAZZ FUCKING JACKRABBIT 2 ... I love this game and your review on it*
2:42 "I hear you are an excellent droid builder".
Apparently "droid builder" means something rude, at least when you look at the suggestive hand motions.
R2 and C3PO's love child is surprisingly nimble.
My uncle gave me a "copy" when i was young. The disk was burned with the worst CD sticker on it (remember the CD stickers? u should do a video on how bad those were LGR)
this game was so much fun. but the levels were kinda scary if i recall correctly
As an aside, it's depressing that despite all the work done to make the *other* Sith Engine games work on modern systems, *this* is the one I actually want to see again.
I like all these PC game reviews. I've never seen any of them. we had Nintendo and Sega Genesis till x box came out. lol
Glad you're enjoying! The PC is often quite a different world from consoles, which makes it fun to explore I feel.
Hmm, can't say I had any troubles with glitches when I played this game. Or I simply didn't notice at the time. It definitely had its wonkiness though.
I thought I imagined this game! It does exist!
Huh, ramps worked fine for me when I played this back in the day... some collision and camera issues and stuff like that though, just like you mention.
I'm considering trying to remake this game in a modern game engine.
Ah I had such a good time playing this as a kid. I remember restarting missions because I got the boxes in a hole and I actually remember having to learn about levers and pulley systems from the game. Huh, never struck me as a learning game as I played it. I could never finish the games though because the assassin droids scared me! Only ever finished the intro missions. Anyway, I'm sure you would have loved it if you played it as a kid back in the early 2000's
I think an important question needing to be explored in an edutainment software review is whether you learn anything that could benefit you outside of the software itself! What does one learn while playing DroidWorks that might apply elsewhere? Seems from your narration that all you really learn is how to pass the game's missions. What physics lessons are imparted in this process?
From what I've heard it's that the games engine is so rough it literally can only run on average PCs of the time. So if you're building a gaming rig even a retro-one, the game can't handle the power and that's where the physics screwups start.
And it's a shame that it was so wonky, 'cause at the time, it was so cool! But, yeah, I hate to agree, but it's not something I'd want to play again...
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