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Release 4 is out! Play via Browser , standalone Windows . or standalone Linux . Since most of the changes are visual, with motion, I thought videos would serve better than screens. The images below link to animated gifs and there are original YouTube links (with a better framerate) above each linke...

Hey, that's some solid voice work! Not what I was really expecting for Keen (more nasally than what I originally imagined). But what if you did the voice for Mortimer? The idea of having the arch-villain have this nasally \ nerdy voice would serve for a great comedic effect. Either way, well done! :...

Ahhhh! I'd recommend checking out realMyst or realMyst Masterpiece edition-- if the original is too hard to get back into.

How about stuff that Keen has already said in the story text?

Keen 1:
"Aww Mom, can't I keep him?" (always liked that one, haha)

Keen 4:
"So the Shikadi are planning to destroy the Galaxy, huh?" thinks Billy. "Sounds like a job for...COMMANDER KEEN!"

Any Americans here familiar with the Australian slang word (Dunny )? I am familiar with it, strangely enough via the game Myst-- what I heard is that the fabled lost civilization of D'Ni was originally going to be called Dunny, but was changed due to that name for the toilet (still pronounced the s...

@ComissionerDeWitt haha, many thanks! @Roobar: I forgot to address your other idea, about whether Tom Hall is working on anything else, like a platformer. I think that's a good idea and something I've wondered myself, but I might put that at the end of my conversation with him, since it might seem ...

@Roobar: yeah, I mentioned that thread in my double post, but thanks for fleshing it out more :) So how does this sound: "In both the original Keen 4 files and Keen 7 video, there are different colored guns. Were other weapons originally planned?" It sounds kind of minimal (it's actually ...

That is SO cool! It reminds me of my idea to use a Pi to make some kind of PC-based game console, based off of the Gravis Gamepad (basically if Gravis had made their own game system). But with that I'd have more room to work with-- I could hide a powersupply and USB adapters within the case. Whereas...

Sorry for the double post, but I just want to start off with a separate mention that we might have some fertile ground about the differences in ray guns, but that might be a minor question.

I mentioned a while back in the "GPL" thread and more recently in the "Keen 7 tech demo" thread that I had contacted Tom Hall on twitter and asked him about important Keen issues-- such as a buying back the rights or what he had planned for TUIT. There's a few things I'd like to ...

haha, well we do know he hears voices from those Yorp and Garg statues.

Naturally Commander Keen would sound like a kid, but I hate the current trend of making kids voices really squeaky. I would hope they'd go the "Peanuts" route and make him sound half-way mature. A good example of this trend is how Tails had a more assertive voice in Sonic Adventure 1 , but...

That is insanely cool! Congrats!

Sorry for double posting, but about a week ago, rather than spinning my wheels in the thick mud of speculation, I thought I'd ask Tom Hall about this video, and he got back to me! Here is the entirety of our 140-character conversation , I asked him a few more questions, the last two of which was giv...

Thanks for getting back to me ProYorp! Good to know the actual mechanics of the game works-- I will disable that masking shader in the next release, to see if that helps. What games usually work on your computer? Just so I get a feel of its capabilities. Also, what version of Windows are you using? ...