Public Commander Keen Forum

You can always promote your editor in social networks. I'm pretty sure there is interest in this game as every once in a while people are asking Apogee for a remake. Crystal Caves HD, for example, has over 900 (!) fan made levels in Steam workshop so far, which goes to show that when something is d...

Look, I was just looking. For me, it's a love-hate relationship with this game. I love to play it, but I don't like the limitations. Limitations like you can't place crystals or columns in the sky. There's not much variety in a single tileset to work with either. I basically agree with you. From a ...

Roobar wrote: ↑Thu Jan 12, 2023 16:30 So turns out he was missing the config folder. Thanks for the support!

So are you or your friend trying to make anything with the editor, or just looking around and examining existing levels?
I'd like to see some creations or at least some experiments from you!

Trying the beta Then please check two things: 1. Whether there's a file called "beta.ini" inside the "Config" folder which is shipped with the editor, and whether there's a line starting "beta" in "versions.ini" file 2. Whether the hocus.exe file of the beta ...

This means he is trying to use editor on unsupported game version.
As I said, the full 1.0 version is not supported, because I did not have it on hand when developing the editor. Not sure which version he is actually having, whether it's 1.0 full, or some yet other version, which is not known.

I don't know from how long Hocus Pocus Beta is out, but just reporting that the editor opens the levels there as well: Yes, I explicitly added support for the beta version, as some other person (I don't remember who) gave it to me and I was happy to finally have it. It has some flaws which were for...

Nisaba wrote: ↑Sat Oct 29, 2022 19:20 I'll make a start. here we go:
Keen 4, hard mode, all points, level 18

Is it just me, or it downloads only a 267kB mp4 file which is unplayable?

1) How did you initially get into the Keen games? My dad bought a PC when I was about 3 or 4. He had several games on it, like Hocus Pocus, Lemmings, Legend of Kyrandia and some others, and I easily became a computer maniac, spending lot of time playing the games. Then one time, he "somehow&qu...

Maybe this is a bit different. I animated a commander keen music video based on "Commander Keen 4 - Secret of the Oracle". I hope you like it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_lghqjEtoM Oh, what I've just seen? I'm... really impressed! So much creativity and love put into this! 314 likes...

Thanks for your replies so far. Some of the original game authors (Tom Hall, John Romero) are aware, have been in touch with the community in the past and seem to like what the people here have produced. Not sure about the Carmacks or any of the others. Is there any evidence of this, ideally a link ...

Hi, I am really wondering, whether there has been any (un)official comment from the original game authors, publishers or copyright owners about their attitude to existence of Commander Keen mods and modding activities. I'm asking primarily due to the legality side of modding, because technically, ac...

Actually, all three Jill episodes are very similar to each other. For the most part, the tilesets and sprites are same across episodes, the next episodes have a few new creatures and environments, but basically E2 and E3 feel much more like level packs to E1 rather than completely new games. I did n...

Regarding me, I don't really remember watching preview screens in Commander keen Games. But I got exactly the same feeling of excitement when watching screens taken from the next episodes in many other games from the same era, especially Jill of the Jungle! In Jill of the Jungle, the Epic Megagames ...

I first time "discovered" Keen5 secret level through a door glitch. I don't remember exactly, but maybe it was in Energy Flow Systems, where I walked through a door in lower part of map, and bam, I exited the level and appeared in front of the secret level. It indeed crashed because I was ...

Not sure if this is true or not, but according to my memories, I was rarely able to play secret level on easy difficulty (with the crashing game version) without a crash. It just randomly, after maybe series of tries, did not crash, maybe a save/load helped? Really not sure if that's even technicall...