Public Commander Keen Forum

You hear in your mind:

GAAAAAAAAAAARG



(the only true answer here)

Speedrunning through this was fun.

https://youtu.be/kVd133-U4wY

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John Romero will talk about Keen tonight on a live stream: https://t.co/U1xkrtSodZ

I don't expect them to remember each one of their own levels. I mean it has been more than 30 years.
But sometimes John Romero makes AMA. You can ask that question there. And who knows, his memory may serve him well.

What does that mean?

Looks fun!

No it's not

*By the way, as for other games: there's another game which uses an enhanced EGA palette (EEGA with 20 colours, including two shades of colder violet, dirty yellow and the greatly missing peach-orange shade - even if it's presented that way, brown in EGA palette is not actually a "darker equiv...

You'll be able to play with the original palette as well.

I'd say it's very unfair to compare games that were made back in 1990-1991. Not to mention they were made in an incredibly short time! They were innovating the genre as well. There was nothing like them before that, especially on the DOS market. They are not mods (although technically, Keen 1 was in...

Fabian Sanglard has posted an amazing article that goes into the technical details of how Commander Keen managed to make it onto a platform with no hardware sprites or native multi-directional scrolling:

https://fabiensanglard.net/ega/

It seems that the German Keen fan site celle forum is completely gone. And with it, perhaps a lot of graphical and other assets.

Well there's the Apogee twitter and Discord for more information abut it and other games.