Is the “Janes World War” (JWW) project really dead?
Yes, but not quite. Pixel BBS is doing now with its Jive technology exactly what JWW was supposed to do, but it’s not for Electronic Arts. EA may not have abandoned this, but Pixel BBS has no active development relations with EA these days. And actually it’s not entirely true that Pixel left the flight simulation business. Their latest product is an online civilian flight simulator (with lots of nifty features) which is now being evaluated by interctive-TV suppliers (so its future is a little hazy). By the way, there’s a scoop regarding the origins of this game: it was first concieved during USAF developent as… get this… Jane’s first civilian simulator! (Yep, this was confidential info until now, I couldn’t say anything). 2. Can flight models / weapon behaviors / cockpits be added or edited? Anything is possible, but some things were not meant to be open-architecture (i.e. compilation of the game’s source code is necessary) while others are fully or somewhat controlled by data file
