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"I really enjoyed these when I was young too, especially the Keen 2 screen. It seemed full of so many details, and the dead Vorticon Elite in the image held particular focus, my thoughts being what is that thing!? I for sure thought it was some kind of monster rising out of the ground. I recall...

Great list, Quillax! Adding to Keen 4: The Foot travel mechanic. Quite a few creatures that can't be difficulty-specific (i.e. Mimrocks, clouds, Mad Mushrooms, etc.) I believe this can be patched. Adding to Keen 5: Unique game over animation (not many ways to modify it though, iirc). Teleporters(the...

Defense Tunnel Burrh: I love the name, and that the blue background of the level makes it feel chilly. I love that this level is easily broken into 4 segments, and the first most 'complex' segment doesn't require being back tracked to from the more linear segments. The first segment, everything up ...

Found my game, by first figuring out the game collection it was on, softdisk's "Game Empire Over 250 Games", which I recognized the game selection screen from a google search. Then it was just a matter of downloading an iso and poking around the games. My game was, "Reptalia". He...

In the mid 90s I had several DOS game discs that contained tons of games, and there's one game in particular in my memory that I can't remember the name of and thought maybe someone else might know. The game featured a character with some kind of rifle who had a photo of a kid's face for a head (the...

I like the permanence of the forum, and that extensive and detailed responses are more practical. It’s a great place to announce and share projects. It’s a good place to share ideas and learn other people’s ideas. I like the intimacy that discord can offer, the one on one conversations I’ve had with...

In grade school my buddies and I would talk about finding secret levels and making our own Keen games. I think our best idea featured aliens taking over Keen's school, an evil janitor, and getting to the secret level via flushing Keen down the toilet. I also used to try to recruit family and friends...

So I'm hardly an authority on the matter, as I've never programmed anything myself in source code, but: I think low gravity levels could be accomplished without using Well of Wishes code at all and just coding the 'gravity' to be a lower value for certain levels. These levels would be played with al...

What do you think about making one or more levels with weightlessness/microgravity? The dynamics of control might be similar to the Well of Wishes in Keen 4, with perhaps some additional aids like poles. I love this idea, especially with the poles. Dr. Colossus did something like this in his "...

Congratulations to all the nominees and the well deserved winners!

Thank you to everyone who voted for Return to the Shadowlands for best Galaxy mod! I believe this is my first ever Keen award and it means a lot to receive that distinction and is further motivation to continue modding in the future.

Thanks for your thoughts, sbartus! I'm glad you enjoyed every aspect of it! a) Pyramid of Fear: in the second area, there should be at least one more Arachnut on Normal. When I played it, the only Arachnut just stayed on the right and didn't move at all towards me. I think that there are two of them...

Thanks for your thoughts, DarkAle! When I have time I'll update with some creature revisions based on yours and others' feedback. In the meantime, here's a Keen Day sneak peak at the World Map: https://i.ibb.co/wB8QVzz/Omega-Matrix-Sneak-Peak.png I didn't want to stray too far from the original desi...

Happy Keen day!

Glad to hear and see there are projects in the works! Stoked to see more Mura! Perhaps I'll drop the world map for my project before the day ends here.

Hmm, I thought I had some issues in Return to the Shadowlands with too many creature types, but I may be misremembering. I think I would like to keep creature diversity at relatively the 'standard' though. As for the Shikadi, I always felt like they were criminally under utilized in Keen 5 consideri...

I'm not so sure if I like the idea of having two variants. Sorry, I was unclear, what I meant was that I'd share two variants as drafts share and get people's thoughts. I ended up giving up on the "light" variant as it just looked bad and have 3 different versions to show here: https://i....