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Thanks for making a separate thread about this. The teleporty bois need some love. Thanks Gridlock and Multimania for shedding some light on the Shikadi Masters and how they do their thing. I have to say making them inactive at distance massively neuters the potential threat they offer, as well as t...

That’s amazing :eek Thanks for the explanation, it totally makes sense their movements would be driven by a hierarchy of item importance…wild too that they can be effectively exorcised out of existence this way. Quite an elaborate behavior for an enemy that’s barely in the game… As to the Shikadi Ma...

This isn't a strike against the level itself but I think those smirking treasure-eaters should've been in at least another couple of levels. They have a GREAT design and their loot-pilfering is a rare mechanic in platformers (at least platformers of the time AFAIK). The teleporting enemies (treasur...

Who remembers megakeen

cool game idea

the super doom fourms

ragequit

I guess he’d be 29 now, not much younger than me. Makes you think

Can someone help me out here? This is pretty random, but does anyone know what the heck Paramultart's avatar is from? I've been trying to figure this out for a while. I'm assuming it's from some cartoon from the 80s or 90s judging by the art style. I've been asking my friends if they know, and whil...

Because Tom needed something that was phonetically alliterative and "Commander Cool" would've been too boring and uncreative I always took it the way Nospike said: "keen" as a combination of sharp, enthusiastic, intense, that kind of thing. Interesting aside: way way back when I ...

Right, right. :o I really need to respond to some posts in the other thread and do my own votes. I've been putting it off for some reason but I did write some things yesterday. I'll start the Keen 5 polls after I finish with that. I'll be waiting for it! I have so many opinions on Keen 5 and 6 maps...

I would definitely say Keen 2 is harder than Keen 1. I’d also say it has the best level design in the Vorticons trilogy and some of the best in the series so it’s well worth the trouble :) I’m not sure how Keen 1 is generally perceived here relative to the others. It’s definitely on the easier end o...

Good old Keen Dreams I don't remember exactly when I first played it, my dad got it at the same time he got all the non-shareware Keen games (which was a very, very long time ago). It was always kind of the "other" Keen game to me, the one I enjoyed from time to time but never got engrosse...

Interesting how sharply Crystalus divides opinion so far. It is simultaneously among the most loved and disliked (not to say “hated”) levels based on these results. I’ve always liked it myself, though it’s not as much of a standout to me as some of the other levels such as the pyramids or the ones I...

Miragia was a no-brainer top pick for me. Like Nospike said, it’s a pretty, unique, interesting level. The idea of a vanishing crystal city in the desert is just so cool and is implemented so well here and I always just enjoy being in this level. I mentioned in the last thread about the secret extra...

Well, I guess yellow is the closest you can get to the Mars sky color with the EGA palette. But I'm not sure if that will look right. There will be 2 versions of this: one that adds new tiles and modifies the levels accordingly, and one that's compatible with all Keen 1 mods that don't change the g...

I think I remember this happening to me a long time ago, probably in the same spot. I never found it easily repeatable enough, or repeatable in enough places, to exploit but it’s a neat find nonetheless. Might have to go see if I can make it go again ;) Now we need to find a trick to get past all th...

Oooooh I love the richness of your color choices, amazing how lively the same items look with a bit of clever shading. I'm with Nospike, I always thought Ep. 1's portrayal of Mars was a bit flat. Just your red soil texture by itself fixes that a lot, it looks like actual Martian regolith now instead...

I guess I can't speak for everybody else that voted for the Chasm of Chills, but...well, the main problem for me is that I don't truly dislike any of the levels in Keen 4 (except maybe the Well of Wishes, and even then it's tempered by my appreciation for the novelty of the level). The secrets in th...