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warzy wrote: ↑Thu Sep 29, 2022 18:05 On mac when loading the game I can never get past the initial loading screen (just continues to say "please wait" - any thoughts?

You need to run "UCK4.BAT" in Dosbox, not "KEEN4E.EXE".

Any suggestions for software to make keen music? This is really my first go at any form of composting outside of trying s trial version of fruity loops in the early 00s. I have tooled around with RADtracker because as i understand it when you convert from MIDI to IMF it might sound completely diffe...

Yep that's the guide i'm using and it's very helpful. Awesome, I'm glad it's useful! Be aware that I'm currently in the process of revising it. You may have already noticed some changes, and there will be more in the coming weeks. Particularly: Folders in the modding setup will be renamed: 'BMP' wi...

I got into Keen sometime around age 5. It all started with hearing the Keen Galaxy pogo stick noise coming from the basement and finding my father playing Border Village. It's hard to narrow down what exactly is my favorite part of the games. I love the lore : I've always been a scifi fan and Comman...

Is there any evidence of this, ideally a link to such discussion? I don't have a link, but I can corroborate this info in the case of Tom Hall where years ago someone asked him about my trilogy on twitter and his response was, more or less, "haven't played it but looks cool!". I don't use...

Announcement: Xky, who composed music for Return to the Shadowlands, has agreed to return for Operation Station Infiltration! I'm really looking forward to the Keen 5 inspired soundtrack he'll come up with. Update: Multimania has been hard at work bringing my graphics to life and I'm ecstatic over ...

Hi and welcome to the PCKF! Which tutorial are you following? As a beginner, I suggest my tutorial here, which is for 'classic' modding with patching: https://keenwiki.shikadi.net/wiki/Keen_Galaxy_Modding_Tutorial_(by_Ceilick) Adding additional platform sets can be as easy as copying and pasting an ...

To combat "Not enough memory to play background music!", one option not listed in my tutorial is utilizing K1n9_Duk3's IMF crusher. This tool can automatically optimize IMF music and reduce the size of the file, reducing the memory needed for the song in game, without compromising the song...

Double posting because this really sucked me in in an unexpected way and I've just finished! I gotta say, this mod really grew on me as I played and toward the end I had come to see it as a flawed masterpiece. One of the things that really lead to my enjoyment is the level design. Being a new modder...

I PMed you some screenshots highlighting what I'm talking about.

Nothing wrong with the story, I just didn't know I was collecting parts from Robots until I met a robot and Keen's like "Sorry pal"

I'm 4 levels in on easy mode and enjoying it so far! Discovering the new creatures has been one of my favorite parts, I've only encountered a handful but my favorites so far are the Saptyr and whatever the cloud replacement is. Really like your creature designs, the Ventabilis is pretty cool from wh...

I'm happy to announce Multimania will be taking over programming operations for this mod! Currently I'm working to provide frames for all the new enemies so that Multimania can begin coding them. After consideration, these will be: Robo Blue, Robo Green, Robo Yellow, Big Ampton, Sparky Jr, Sparky II...

Update: Unfortunately I've made very little progress with this, for the significant reason that K1n9_Duk3 has been gone for some time and thus this project has no engine. While K1n9_Duk3's source code seems a likely platform to get this started, I'm afraid this is beyond my skill. I've considered t...

Absolutely feel free to utilize the patch files from my mods! If you want to give credit, any patches from Keen 7 that cannot be found on the Keen Wiki or Modding forum are probably written by Levellass.

Awesome to see a new mod in the works, and nearly complete as well! It's a bit difficult to provide feedback on much outside of the art based on the video, but here we go: Cool Red Dwarf reference :lol The graphics in this are a strange mismatch of styles: recolored graphics, what I think I recogniz...