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I will add that there were levels in Oh No! More Lemmings and Creepers that drove younger me to tears of frustration (I loved the games but was not great at them) and those songs STILL make me angry, hearing them years later... but I still enjoy them, just as much as they drive me insane. :) I'll th...

Bobby Prince did a lot of twelve bar blues. In Keen, it was Bloogwater Crossing, Guard Post(s), and Omegamatic. But lots of the Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure and Bio Menace stuff was twelve bar blues. For me, the best Keen songs are the ones that evolve the melody/pattern of the song. Sphereful with my D...

Scrubs! Innocent little cleaner-bots who can carry Keen, hide secrets, be manipulated by point pick-ups, and so on. I really like their role on the Vorticon ship.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/ ... nBubba.mid

A sketch for you.

When I was in grade school, staying the night at a friend's house, his mom told me that I was yelling in my sleep about Vorticons. They definitely creeped me out when I was younger. It's a shame, because I really enjoy them as characters now (and I'm sympathetic to them because of the whole Mind Bel...

Guard Post One. I got Keen1 when I bought the full trilogy of Crystal Caves (the first computer game I full-out purchased, to my knowledge) and thought Billy Blaze handled really poorly compared to Milo Steamwitz. But then I got Keen6 as a gift (I don't recall whether it was birthday or holiday) and...

Ha!

Hey KeenRush! Here's an hour of me struggling to do simple things:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... PhcMwcMVfy

The more I dance on the world map, the more frustrated I am. And I'm sure you'll be frustrated too, seeing how awful I am at this game!!! lol

KeenRush, I definitely plan to play more--I simply didn't have time in my first foray. I'll be back after I've had a chance to give it a more thorough appreciation!

KeenRush! This is a cute mod. :) You have a lot of really cool detail tiles and your atmosphere is very easy to read. Nice job with the level design that I've seen so far. I tried each of the four immediately accessible levels a few times. What got me in the two to the left that block your path was ...

Things are... very different. Something like ten-plus years of eye memory for where things are and how things "should" look are going to take some time to overcome! Another round of thanks to Andy Durdin for hosting our creative energies for so many years, and a big huzzah to Fleexy for ta...

Thanks for keeping this place going for all these years, Andrew! :) You're truly one of the pillars of the community, in one form or another.

Looking forward to whatever future the Keen Community has.

Astounding! :)

I chipped in $25. John Carmack put up $1000! :O

Hey, someone should write an algorithm, taking into account all the rules of good level-building, to create random levels. That would be interesting. Some beautiful day when I have a bit of spare time, I will create such an algorithm. I love the level generators that were developed for classic game...