Public Commander Keen Forum

I found the whole mod to be amazing. Even when taking a 20-odd year-old game, masterpieces as such are created. Now onto mechanic review. One thing that I found funny (but annoying as fucl) was the overall slowness of Keen. He climbs stuff slowly, walks slowly, and pogos around just like somebody wh...

oh, here's one.


a test that says "type the name of the creature below into the space below"
with a graphic that also says "do not follow the above instructions"
followed by a textbox.


for added difficulty, the graphic can be a keen mob.

THAT'LL learn 'em!

StupidBunny wrote:

this is amazing.

i want to have a smaller one as an avatar...

Sanic speed? What exactly do you mean by 'short range hadoken'? Is it some sort of fireball that would only go halfway across the screen? Because that's easy to do. Pogoing to stun enemies would work too, as would the sonic ring, I assume you want Keen's ammo to spill out as raygun items? sanic spe...

Hmm.... Time to do some brainstorming. mario shoes (stun enemies by stomping on them, can be swapped with pogo) sanic speed sonic ring shield (getting hit by an enemy causes you to spill all your ammo, but you survive short range hadoken? aggro-stealth (kind of like the decoy, but any enemy chasing...

he says wubbuh.

since i'm guessing that it's an arachnut replacement, how about rushing limboch?

ouchlimb is wonderful.
it has that childish silliness of some keen enemy names along with the cosmic-horror feel image of some TUIT mobs


leggeriepus also comes to mind.
(it has an armory's worth of spines... but they're all on its legs... and i think it has 8 legs...?)

Levellass wrote:I have AAMBA-R3, and I fail to see this three versions of level thing you mention.

1 level with more enemies and such, but I do not see three versions of a level. Can you perhaps produce video or screenshots showing this?

sections of the levels are cut off depending on which difficulty you take

Gridlock wrote:So... does this mean you can have 3 versions of a level in the gamemaps file? Because whatever the method is, that is crazy

NY00123 did it with AAMBA, he also managed a trick to put the highscores level in-map

^ so then maybe have the bullets be in tile-cartridges on the game map?


that way, when you return, they just look like empty bullet cases...?

i like that, but one thing i found kind of awkward was the teeny-tiny shots. even in Keen galaxy the shots are head-sized :/ also, it doesn't make a lot of sense for static RR bullets to be lying around ready for use, perhaps batteries? platform tracks would be nice. allow some mid-air puzzles and w...

I also love Keen 7-9. But I don't understand something: I thought if in Keen 9 you shoot Mortimer 25 times(am i right?), the game ends. it was too difficult to deal with a shockshund that could kill you as well as make you lose if you killed it. Mortimer has 30hp, then every hit after that will stu...

I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong. I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this. Gee, if only that company hadn't patented rounded rectangle...

...ham hawk. YES!



it might end up that we would start with clever puns before actually drawing the sprites.


not that i'm complaining.