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Haha, that's a good comic, Mort! I actually laughed for a bit! :lol The backlog idea sounds good to me. There may be a long break, but once the comics get uploaded again, it's at a nice steady pace rather than randomly. It just seems better that way. If I made a comic strip, I'd go with the backlog,...

Congratulations to all of the winners! It's really amazing to see how many awards Bubbatom won in just this one year, especially when they're all for one mod! I'm not even sure if any other mod won at least two awards in one year. Also, it's nice to see KeenRush finally win an award after all these ...

Thanks for moving the posts from the Keen 4 Least Favorite Level thread to this one, Fleexy! So, I looked at the patch for the Shikadi Master spawn code, and by just changing one value, I made it so that it's always active even if off-screen. Here's the patch that does that: #Shikadi Master Spawn co...

Links for those who feel too lazy to look it up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRI35yeu_NE
https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=nRI35yeu_NE (alt link, "invidious-us.kavin.rocks" seems to be working right now)

This is neat indeed. I wonder if he'll play some other Keen mods.

There was a interesting discussion about Treasure Eaters and Shikadi Masters here, which got moved to its own thread . Since a part of my initial post in there now seems out of place, I moved it here: So I went and tried it... it is possible. You have to press Down and then Jump in quick succession,...

I always thought "keen" meant definitions 7 and 1. I mean, the High Scores screens in the Galaxy games have "The Keenest", so definition 7 works well in that context. I guess that definition was more popular in the 70s or 80s, or perhaps even the 90s. Interestingly, I never thoug...

If I understand Multimania's post correctly, the Shikadi Master gets its teleporting location by looking at the area around Keen, randomly selects one of the tiles there, and checks to see if the chosen tile is valid. I looked at extracted sprites of the Shikadi Master, and its hitbox is taller than...

I have a Windows 7 system that runs KNP games very well, although one of them (Mario & Yoshi) will crash if played for a long time. I don't know if that's a compatibility issue or the programmer's fault, though. If you don't mind, I'd like to try your KNP games! I have TGF, so I could use it to ...

Wow, this is all really interesting! I wasn't expecting this much technical info! I remember when I designed the Flooded Fort level in The Sunnylands, I made sure the items in the secret areas weren't sprites so the Treasure Eaters wouldn't go after them. Looking back, though, I kind of wish I put i...

[Split from Keen 4 Least Favorite Level? -Fleex] 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 ...

I got Windows 98 installed on a computer a while ago, and for a while it could only display 16 colors. During this time, games made with Klik & Play (Commander Keen 2000, Mario & Yoshi, etc.) would run, but look horrible. Recently, I was playing around with the system settings, and I managed...

Wow, that's good! That Pat-Pat is looking very hungry!

That's very interesting, Pandakeen! Whenever I look at the map for the secret level of Keen 1 , I swear there's an optical illusion at the bottom-right corner. It's the area with the red diamond-shaped formation of blocks and zigzag formations around it. It looks as if the red diamond and the surrou...

I'm looking forward to the next poll too!I played through all of Keen 5 not too long ago and am about halfway through Keen 6, so the levels are a bit fresh in my mind too. As StupidBunny said, at least no levels from those games will have to be left out!

I think a new Keen game has been confirmed! I looked at a box of mac 'n cheese in a store, and the "Best by:" date is March 15, 2023! I bet it's going to be called "The Mac 'N Cheese Is Toast!" Sounds like it'll be really fun! :crazy (And would you look at that, 315 posts!) :mort...