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by darthslaw
Sun Mar 06, 2011 4:12
Forum: Release Forum
Topic: Keen 9: Battle of the Brains
Replies: 618
Views: 373083

While I have no problem with normal and hard being more difficult than the original Keen games, easy should be playable even by young/new players (you certainly don't want to overwhelm them and drive them away), and I can't help but feel this may have been overlooked when developing Keen 9. Couple ...
by darthslaw
Fri Mar 04, 2011 4:13
Forum: Release Forum
Topic: Keen 9: Battle of the Brains
Replies: 618
Views: 373083

With regard to the difficulty, I feel the easy setting is too hard for a Keen game easy setting (it seems more like normal). For example, I recall lots of tricky dodging on goplats -- dodging asteroids, turret blasts... the original Keen games mixed goplats and live turrets pretty sparingly on easy,...
by darthslaw
Wed Feb 02, 2011 4:00
Forum: Release Forum
Topic: Keen 9: Battle of the Brains
Replies: 618
Views: 373083

Awesome! I know what I'll be doing after work tomorrow :)

Thanks, Ceilick and team!
by darthslaw
Sun Jan 23, 2011 3:13
Forum: Official Keen Games
Topic: Keen 4 Tile Error
Replies: 25
Views: 21599

Anyway, nobody has explained to me yet why mr_m's image showed an anti-aliased Keen 4. Dosbox can be configured to do anti-aliasing. I don't recall how to set this up, though. Easy. Play around with the alternate (i.e. not normal) algorithms for the "scaler" option in Dosbox config’s [r...
by darthslaw
Wed Sep 29, 2010 13:43
Forum: Unofficial Keen Games
Topic: How should death be handled?
Replies: 41
Views: 23515

Save anytime, like Keen Galaxy. Good for practicing (as mentioned), or if you have to exit the game in mid-level. If people want to "save-cheat", that's their own business. It's no different from quick-saves in more modern games (other than requiring multiple keystrokes). *dodges thrown sh...
by darthslaw
Thu Jun 10, 2010 1:33
Forum: Official Keen Games
Topic: It Has Been Done
Replies: 58
Views: 35239

That's pretty sweet. Well done! Love the victory celebration keen does at the end, haha. :)

Also, I just noticed that Keen's HUD blanks out after talking to the janitor... I guess I never played the level enough to catch that before (let alone play it without saving).
by darthslaw
Thu Jun 10, 2010 1:06
Forum: Official Keen Games
Topic: Keen 6 Value
Replies: 37
Views: 27431

It's not straight up Keen 6, but I got my copy of id Anthology for $46 USD a few months ago. Yay! :D (If anyone is wondering, yes, it comes with only the CGA version of Keen 6, and yes, the Keen 6 CGA->EGA converter/patch does work on this version :) - I stumbled across this tool while browsing arou...
by darthslaw
Tue Mar 16, 2010 23:41
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Hey lurkers!
Replies: 44
Views: 22492

Hi. :)
by darthslaw
Sat Mar 13, 2010 14:52
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Active members of the forum
Replies: 41
Views: 18709

Commander Spleen wrote:Oops.

--No;
++Yes;
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Line 1: Unexpected symbol '.' found



Well, you can have my vote if you want... I don't qualify for the 'Yes' category yet. :)