Trivia / Dark Forces

• Follow the Leader: Played with; although the game was and is often referred to as a Doom Clone, it was in fact already in development well before the release of Doom 1. It was, however, inspired by Wolfenstein 3-D, however the many technical and gameplay advancements it made over Wolfenstein 3D were developed by Lucasarts independent of similar technical and gameplay advancements that were made in Doom (such as multi-floor levels, 360 degree geometry, the ability to look up and down, etc).
• Game Mod: Has a source port in the form of The Force Engine, which enables it to run both the game and mods on modern PC's, as well as optional quality of life features such as mouselook and a GPU renderer. Most of its code and functionality will be implemented into the official remaster.
• What Could Have Been:
  • According to an issue of PC Gamer magazine, the game was originally intended to feature krayt dragons. Since official sources identified the krayt dragons as far larger than the creatures designed for the game though, the game renamed its design as kell dragons and identified them as relatives of the former species.
  • Early in the game's development, Luke Skywalker was going to be the player character but was cut in favor of having a new character that would ultimately become Kyle Katarn due to the team not wanting to be limited on what they could do with the story and gameplay.