Public Commander Keen Forum

It's not YOU, KeenRush; Keen just doesn't like to fire the pistol all that quick. :) Maybe his little eight year old hands don't have the strength to pull a trigger designed for Vorticon hands... which would explain why his own creation, the Neural Stunner, can fire so much faster! I thought it was ...

Say it aloud... it's a spoof on San Diego, a city located in southern California in the United States (and, in an ironic twist of Keendom, where I live! Ha!)

Part of what made the original Prince of Persia interesting/entertaining was the strict time limit placed on the entire game--it added a level of impatience to the entire game, such that the player frequently took risks that weren't necessary. Because each action the player took had a specific numbe...

Both videos were impressive, though KeenRush, I have to really compliment you again on Level 11. Scrubs for life! :D

That whole thing made the episode look so simple and straightforward... Cheers!

1) Is there a place where I can download Keenwrigt. Andrew's site doesn't work anymore. I've tried mindbelt, but it keeps asking me for a tileset, which I don't have. So if anyone knows where I can download Keenwright or where I can find a tileset for keen2, let me know. You should be able to find ...

Some comments, based only on the screenshots: For the map screen, make sure you've got some sort of texture / context for the area the player is traversing. If you're going to keep it that cyan color, make sure either a) the ground in the levels is similarly cyan, or b) there are landmarks / detail ...

I think it's hilarious that KeenRush called the toothpaste "poison stuff." I've always thought it was just toothpaste. Why in the world the Narln would have oil drums full of toothpaste is beyond me, but I enjoy the thought of minty-fresh death. :) There's three things I want to address ab...

Wow. Anyone watching that video, with no knowledge of Keen, would say "I don't see what's so hard about that." You make it look ridiculously easy, KeenRush. :)

Are we allowed to reveal which levels are our own now? KeenRush has so I'd presume so... Let's give it a bit more time. :) Maybe CK Guy can give us a post mortem, after everyone's had a chance to post their reviews. We had 8 submitted levels; we should have 8 submitted reviews/reactions, right? Aft...

First of all, if you can't beat level 07, you're required to turn in your helmet and pogo stick. Sorry. ;) Second, I understand exactly what you're saying! Level design is something that continually needs to be tweaked, playtested, and balanced. One thing I've learned, whenever I'm making a level, i...

w00t! Level 1 - I like the Blue and Yellow theme! Worked nicely, although I never expected to see Super Mario Bros. style construction of levels. A bit more background detail on the long stairway going from the right edge of the level up would have been fantastic. Good use of jump-through blocks and...

That was probably relating to Carmack's intent to do more with limited-memory coding, like his Doom RPG for cel phones and such. He'd talked about being interested in the cel phone market for a time... this may have been one of his early musings on the topic. Or I could be totally wrong. :) *shrug*

Woohoo, pretty much done with my level. Now to add garnishes such as fish shaped crackers, fish shaped candies, fish shaped solid waste, fish shaped dirt, fish shaped ethyl benzene, pull and peel licorice, fish shaped organic compounds and sediment shaped sediment. Also, I'll have to make it a bit ...

So far as I know, cho'gall was off doing military work.
adurdin's been busy with university; he moved from Australia up to the UK for his studies!

Don't sweat it :) The original proposed duration of entry was what, 2 months? we knicked it down to 3 weeks on good faith; if it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out. I'd rather have more levels in, personally. I'm enjoying the idea of working with other mods' tilesets--I'm looking forward to makin...