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Thanks for playing! Another thing: can you tell me how to change doors destination with infoplane switches in a PM or in a post here? I would like to use it in future I'm wondering if you missed the post I made in the Unofficial Keen Games Alphamatic topic? I tried to explain it there as best I coul...

I've been pretty guilty of working on Keen mods without actually playing other people's stuff. I have a huge backlog of commercial games to play, let alone Keen mods. With it being Keen Day, I resolved to play this, and I managed to finish it in one sitting (minus Pyramid of Pain; that level is too ...

I've got a little Keen Day surprise: The Alphamatic - Version 2.0 + Marooned Over Mars Expansion http://bit.ly/3ler7GG https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1D56k9FNQgVw73FWX4GR2q-Jt-4sBE2iQ I wasn't sure if I was going to make it for Keen Day. There were a few more features and revisions I...

Thats a really cool idea! I'd be really interested to learn how you got that to work. And with switches that change their destinations, that opens up a new new world of possibilities for level design! I can't actually take full credit for the idea. To the best of my knowledge, the first person to u...

Man, the update sounds sweet. Hopefully it's still coming, one day ;) Appreciate the interest. I've had periods of productivity followed by long gaps of not working on it. Just today I found the motivation to mostly finish revising and polishing one of the new levels, the first in the expansion. I ...

It is a bit tricky. I suppose color variations, as you said, are one thing you could try. Changing the entire shade is good for differentiation, but I don't think that it would look good given the bright environmental art style. I guess you could try changing an individual color, adding some ditheri...

These screenshots are gorgeous. I particularly love the first picture with the stone tileset; great use of color and contrast, great three-dimensionality in the tileset, great organic details with the vines... just awesome. I also love in one of the later screenshots how that stone tileset transitio...

I think it'd be really cool to see transcriptions of more Keen GBC songs, but it's a lot of work, right? Do you really just have to use your ear to try and replicate it? If so, I guess that must take a really well trained ear. Not a huge fan of the game, although I did beat it when I was a kid. Howe...

The only other thing to think about is whether any aspect of the technique is patented. Of course this is highly unlikely in the case of Keen Galaxy which is of course a 2D engine. It's extremely improbable anything about their 2.5D is patentable as it can easily be replicated with generic 2D engin...

I'm hardly an expert on this subject, but for what it's worth, I did take a college course a few years back on intellectual property law (at least in the U.S.). Mainly the two types of IP law you want to be aware of are copyright and trademark. Copyright protects specific expressions of work, such a...

If you're doing an update, is there any chance that something could be done to equalize the music volume please? Some tracks (like Antigravitational Hub) are way more quiet than they deserve to be (I remember the first time I played this, in a level that had that song I just sat with the status men...

I think if you're going to do Galaxy, you need to take a different approach. There have been interesting ideas in the past, like that patchwork Keen 6 level that was made of pieces from different people (though that still had poor participation if I recall). Stuff like: "Make a level no bigger ...

I've said it before, but I still consider these levels pretty awful. I made these in middle school back when my ambition exceeded my design skill. I found it a little strange to see them even included in this pack. I don't even remember the context very well of this specific situation. I don't remem...

Another update. Thanks to K1n9_Duk3, a few of the game's larger bugs, like the QED fuse not always breaking, should get fixed in the new version. Furthermore, I've been able to add an additional level to the expansion. So, it'll now be 4 new levels instead of 3. There's actually now 25 level slots b...

My jaw dropped this morning when I saw the headline this morning. That's such a massive acquisition. But yeah, I'm wondering what this means for Keen, if anything. My impression is that Microsoft's current strategy is being more consumer friendly and not as litigious when it comes to cracking down o...