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The Keen Awards voting often comes out in mid-late February, and the results often around Keen Day. Quillax seems to have gone inactive, however, having last posted in August 2025, so pretty much everything about the Keen Awards has stalled indefinitely.

As a person who quite thouroughly enjoys listening to wordless 2010's electronic music, I feel the need to post my playlist that I listen to.

I also have the need to mention that because of already stated fact, I know nothing about what everyone else here listens to. But that's perfectly fine by me ...

Well, would you look at that. Another year added to Commander Keen's history. Enjoy 2026 guys! (for some reason 2025 sounds nicer than 2026 but i'll get used to it lol)

I've been wanting to make videos for some non-Keen (but also maybe Keen) projects, and since this is the Misc forum and it doesnt have to relate to Keen, I was wondering what video editors you guys use. I've used Clipchamp in the past, but their video quality is terrible, and the other video editors ...

KeenWiki is strangely giving me this error message (and has been for a few days):

[c799c7178e71708d52521d13] 2025-12-05 00:48:32: Fatal exception of type "Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBQueryError"

Seems like a more serious error this time.

The only thing "off" I've noticed so far was in Orbital Transit, where right near the beginning (the second switch, I think), I managed to get one of the three goplats separated from the others. It was way behind them. By the time it caught up, it slotted into the same spot as one of the others ...

Found 3 tiling errors.

In Fuel Processing: You can grab on a block in the secret passage and climb into the slope.
https://i.postimg.cc/K87BZmYG/Alphamatic-Error-1.png

In Mars Station: You can pogo from the secret passage through this slope. (This has existed since 1.0)
https://i.postimg.cc ...

I made it to Binary Circuits, but I'm not sure if I completed it in the intended manner. I first rode the whole circuit and got none of the gems. Then it looped back to the start, I rode the circuit again, and that time I got all four! I'm not sure if that's what you're supposed to do, but it worked ...

I am currently struggling through Mars Machineworks again. I was gonna go for every point item, but I used the 2nd red gem in Defense Tunnel Terra for fun early on and got locked out of those points at the top. I thought about cheating to get them, but decided otherwise. I will give my thoughts on ...

The thing is for Keen 5, you HAVE to save your game to collect some points in level 2 due to those points being placed too far above the screen border, but if you save there, you are repositioned above the border and can get the points. I often save again after I'm out of the secret passage to ...

When I mentioned doing a full-point collection run of Keen 5, my thought process was, "Get every single Vitalin jar, every Keg, and every point item in every single level DEATHLESS and glitchless in 1 run). That seems extremely difficulty to pull off, and I probably won't move like speedrun speed ...

I used to be into speedrunning Keen 5 and 6 (using glitches, as is shown by my username), and I planned my route for a Dead in the Desert glitch speedrun the other day, so I'm prolly gonna try and do that at max speed. My glitched Keen 5 record is in just under 5 minutes, and my glitched Keen 6 run ...

I honestly was not expecting patches for this, so I'll probably pull a Gridlock and just use Volte-faces, since that method works pretty well (at least it did in the Alphamatic). However having the source modifications there is helpful for the other more advanced modders in the community.

Well if that's a bad idea, I've had an idea for a LONG time for a built-in timer, but only on 1 specific level. Would it be possible to make a patch that has a timer for a level (say level 12 specifically) that takes up the ammo position on the scorebox? (like the Boobus Bombs from Keen Dreams take ...

This patch request sounds ridiculous and is probably nowhere close to being feasible, but is there any way possible to make it so when a Shikadi Master teleports, it spawns another one somewhere in the level with the same teleporting settings as normal? The idea I had was that you would have to ...