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This is a great topic! It reminds me of a similar topic Bernie made years ago, which is also worth reading and has a lot of good points for each episode! Usually, when I make mods, I just pick an episode and then come up with a design based on that, rather than the other way around. When choosing an...

Sweet! It's finally here! I've been waiting for this! :) Here are my favorites: Energy Flow Systems - My top pick for favorite Keen 5 level! The open design is pretty awesome -- you got a large level where you have to do a fun gem hunt and the pink platforms are a cool way to traverse the level. I l...

Happy (late) birthday, Soul Monster! Hope you had a good one! :birthday Like proYorp, I too somehow thought you were in your thirties (or even forties, I believe). I think it might've been all those cool stories you've shared! Your nostalgia for 50s rock 'n roll may have also contributed to that. Bu...

The green character is Math Blaster. I did attempt to make keen dreams on the GBA from the Link Keen source code, but I'm not sure the GBA has enough memory for all the tiles for say keen 4,5, or 6. I don't really know. Wow, what you have there looks neat! I would think the GBA should have enough m...

I think for a while, I also thought the Koraths were called Goplats too, although that might've more been because that's what a lot of other people call those aliens. What made things more confusing, I believe, was that in Battle of the Brains, a type of Goplat is turned into a Krodacian, which acts...

Alright, I finally decided to read the first chapter, and wow, that's good! :mort It's neat to learn about who Mortimer used to be like; while still a smart kid, he seemed a lot more hopeful and to have better intentions than whom he would eventually become by the Keen games. I wonder what happened ...

Since the Internet got popular, forums were like the main medium for online communities. In recent years, however, forums became less popular in favor of other things like social media and Discord. Discord in particular is so popular that it seems nearly every Internet community has a Discord server...

Wow, it's been almost a month since you posted! What's going on here? Have people been overlooking this topic, or are they just not interested? In case it's the former, I'll ping those that have posted in this topic at least twice: Also, I agree that abandoned mods should be included, at least if it...

Do you read any books? What books have you been reading lately? I know a lot people here like to play games (including our favorite commander! :)) and watch movies, but I'm sure there's some Keen fans that like to take their eyes off of the screen and read a good book. Lately, I've been reading Fran...

Sweet! Can't wait for 2164!!!

Granted. Since people hate black bars so much, such bars are made to constantly flash all sorts of different colors. Seizures incoming in 3...2...1...

I wish there was a hand-drawn animated Keen film, with Tom Hall involved.

I tried this out a while ago in Visual Boy Advance (GBA emulator -- I have a DS, but not those flash cart things), single player only. From what I saw, it's very cool! I imagine NetKeen would be pretty fun to play on the GBA! The graphics look pretty nice, especially in the picture Multimania posted...

Ah, so that's what Keen 9 was really going to be called! :crazy But really, this is a cool discovery! Now I don't have to use the Arial font when I make Vorticons-style title screens! (I think that's what I used when I did the ROM trilogy title screens.) That program looks very neat; I might have to...

This is turning out to be a good topic! It's fun reading about how people find the secret levels! :) I think the only secret level I found myself was Keen 1's. I remember going down into the one pit in Red Maze City, finding and then taking the teleporter, and then got really excited when I saw wher...

Wow, you had a dream about this mod/game!? That's very cool! What you said sounds like a direction The Universe Is Toast could've possibly taken. And yeah, that mushroom is gorgeous!

I recommended giving Yars' Revenge a shot! It's really fun and challenging (especially if you play game #6), and it's often considered one of the best games on the Atari 2600. Another arcade-like Atari 2600 game that I've been having fun playing is Fantastic Voyage. For an adaptation of a 1960s movi...