Rocket Jockey - Remakes

Remakes

Although no commercial entity has ever expressed an interest, several grass-roots Rocket Jockey remake attempts have come and gone since the late 1990s. Most have been conceived as modifications of other commercial games.

The first such project to see any progress used the original Unreal Tournament game as a foundation. A partial gameplay hack and a handful of themed maps were released.

Another ill-fated project appeared in the Quake 3 community shortly thereafter. Nothing was published beyond early development screenshots.

More recently, in 2005, a Rocket Jockey project was put together modding Unreal Tournament 2003 . This effort lost momentum without publishing any results.

In October 2006, an effort to build a remake of Rocket Jockey was announced by independent developer Solar-Ray. Unlike previous efforts, this project is not proposed as a modification of another game. The developer published several development screenshots early on in development. Then, in March 2008, the first alpha test version of the Solar-Ray remake was released, which allows the player to walk or fly around in a small arena and attach cables to one of two posts but does not include any real game play. In July 2008, Solar-Ray announced that development would be "frozen for an unknown amount of time!", then in January 2009, a SourceForge project was founded. Pre-alpha code is still available for download. Unfortunately the project is officially cancelled.

A "spiritual successor" is currently being developed using the UDK(UNREAL development kit) by Six Shooter games and is called Sprocket Junkie! for the iOS devices and maybe the pc(this is not confirmed even though there is a pc demo around). it is basically a war race/action racer type of game but there will be more mods available such as a versus multiplayer mode and the current demo mode where you dodge obstacle in order to pick up gears and deposit them to the bank in order to get points. the game will also have an upgrading system and moddable rockets.