Here are a few select stories that writer Eric Biessman, game programmer gameplay programmer Mike Gummelt, lead designer Chris Foster and lead programmer James Monroe shared about the original game's design concepts that highlight how much game development has changed, and how the team shipped a cinematic Star Wars game with the tech they had at the time.
To mark the game's rerelease, A handful of Jedi Outcast developers (who are still at Raven working on Call of Duty games) dropped by the GDC Twitch channel to share some classic stories from developing the original 2002 game.