Public Commander Keen Forum

Hard to say regarding Skyrim. It's too heavy on boring RPG stuff to consider the open world aspect on its own. Maybe something like what Uru was intended to be but with creatures and other hazards to consider. I'd still expect the levels to be compartmentalised. Maybe lots of smaller sections and ra...

Some thoughts from the Discord server: I was thinking about that thing someone posted a while ago in the new Keen concept thread about an open world reimagining. Maybe that is the kind of remake that's needed... Some kind of casual drop-in/drop-out game world might be the sort of thing that holds my...

Once you have the level format, the hard part is the GUI and some advanced features like automagic adjacency and undo. I use C++ with the cross-platform Qt toolkit for my Levelderp editor, which made things pretty simple, though some of it has become a bit spaghettified and in need of a rewrite. You...

So I just got around to actually trying this a year later and it's amazing. Still not ready to play it through yet but it's definitely one for when I can actually isolate myself from IRL and projects for enough time to engage in some proper Keening again.

I have half an idea but not sure I can be bothered. Got the project set up in case I'm inspired to finish it in the next week.

Changed my mind. It'll be an Isis II mod.

I've decided to reboot OrbKeen as a Krodacia mod.

Was it DOS or some other platform? It sounds a bit like Metal Slug, but I don't think there was DOS version and the graphics were a much more advanced style than Keen and Duke. There was a lot of that kind of stuff on SEGA consoles but I don't recall any similar two-player DOS games around that era.

Well if returning meant demands to produce patches under similar pressure to IRL trouble she's probably encountering at the moment, I can't blame her for taking an extended absence. It has probably become an all or nothing situation in which it is impossible for her to be present here without a sens...

The trouble is concentrating on one idea long enough to get it into a usable form. Animating the vector designs has crossed my mind and is vaguely planned for the future as well as possible ways of making them interactive, but I'm more cautious these days about starting new projects due to the amoun...

In the same spirit as my other Keen fan art post , these are some of the non-Keen related (but often partly inspired by Keen or other DOS games) artwork that I create under my regular pseudonym, Jimage. Starting with the most recent, this is Vaporville, a vector design that I entered in the newschoo...

Awesome. Loving the minimalist yet diverse visual themes and well distributed scenery. Some of these concepts are getting me thinking about different ways of approaching OrbKeen elements that have been bugging me for years The levels are extremely well structured so far with just the right level of ...

I'll add that it's nice to have a full computer in the palm of your hand. For the sake of running DOS games or certain emulators, perhaps it's redundant if you already have another common handheld console. These devices are much more versatile than that and in this case the parts can be quite easily...

Since it's been a long time since I have been particularly active on PCKF (though I do lurk regularly and spend a lot of time on Discord and still chip away at my mods gradually), I figure I might post about some things I've been doing instead. In particular I've been working on a lot of visual art ...

One of my moderately ranked regrets was not grabbing the copy from the local electronics store 15 years ago. It sat on the shelf for the better part of a decade until they finally threw it out. Though it wasn't shrinkwrapped so it wouldn't have been as valuable. Not that I would actually sell it if ...