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In 1991, Jellyvision's former identity, Learn Television, released the award-winning film The Mind's Treasure Chest, which featured lead character Jack Patterson.When Learn Television sought to use new multimedia technologies to create a more active learning experience, the company teamed up with Follett Software Company and developed "That's a Fact, Jack!", a reading motivation CD-ROM game ...
The Facebook version of You Don't Know Jack follows from the success of the 2011 video game for consoles and personal computers. The You Don't Know Jack brand had been on hiatus for about eight years, as Jellyvision, Jackbox Games' parent company, could not see a way to make their game work on gaming consoles.
The Windows version was particularly criticized as it did not allow for online play, a feature available on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 releases, nor would receive the downloadable content for the game. [22] [20] The lack of multiplayer in the pulled iOS version was lamented though the other facets of the game's humor remained. [10] [11]
In August 2014 the source code for the game's X-Ray Engine 1.5.10 became available on GitHub under a non-open-source license. [225] The successor's engine, X-ray 1.6.02, became available too. [ 226 ] [ 227 ] As of October 2019 the xray-16 engine community fork, "OpenXRay", achieved compiling state and support for the two games Call of Pripyat ...
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Prior to developing You Don't Know Jack, Learn Television was a company focused on children's educational films.The company had begun experimenting with interactive media experiences for education, including their game That's a Fact, Jack!, a quiz game on young adult literature, [4] which garnered attention from Berkeley Systems who later reached out to Learn Television.
The franchise of You Don't Know Jack began with popular CD-ROM-based trivia games for computers in 1996.Development had begun in 1997, but was halted for several years as Paul Reubens, whom the developers selected as host, was uncertain about accepting a role outside his most well-known character Pee-Wee Herman.
For the third Humble Indie Bundle [300] [301] Ryan C. Gordon ported the underlying game engine, "Haaf's Game Engine", to Linux and Mac OS X, and released source code under the zlib license. [302] [303] Relish Games released the original version of HGE 1.8.1 for Windows/DirectX to GitHub under zlib license, too. [304] Heretic: 1994 1999 FPS: GPL ...