Modern graphics for all official Commander Keen games?

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Modern graphics for all official Commander Keen games?

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Original graphics uses just 16 colors and 16x16 pixels per tile.
Is there anyone who wants and is able to improve this graphics to True Color and at least 64x64 pixels per tile (or even vector graphics if it is better for this purpose)?
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I think the graphics are perfect the way they are, as compressed as they might be.
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Agree. The only color issue is white human skin (which doesn't matter to me) and the resolution is perfectly Keenish.
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Wait, what? I thought it was just a bad case of inheritable albinism :freud
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Post by VikingBoyBilly »

There is no color issues with skin! Keen is albino, Duke Nukem is obviously severely sunburned, and Princess Lindsay seems to be A-OK.

The fact that the EGA skin problem could've been solved so easily by going with different races really says something about how euro-centric the 90s were.
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Keen's just too white. Princess Lindsey seems too dark. But it's OK with me, EGA color limitations are perfectly normal here. :dopekeen Yeah, duke is sunburned. I kinda like white Keen.
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Nospike wrote:Keen's just too white. Princess Lindsey seems too dark.
Blasphemy! :O White Keen is perfect! Just compare the in-game Keen with box art to see how much better the former looks.

And Lindsey's color is actually pretty okay.
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I don't say white Keen is bad! He's great! >: Also, while Lindsey really looks burned, it fits. Sorry if that's offending you.
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Post by Megaman_90 »

Interesting idea, but think the graphics look pretty good the way they are.

You could always make a black Commander Keen...Or an Hispanic Keen....Or an Oriental Keen....

Naw, I think he is good they way he is! :crazy
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Nospike wrote:I don't say white Keen is bad! He's great! >: Also, while Lindsey really looks burned, it fits. Sorry if that's offending you.
Hahaha, no problem man. I know what you meant. ;)
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They could, of course, have gone with a different EGA palette. Anyone know why they chose the one they did? It's different from the windows EGA palette.
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Levellass wrote:They could, of course, have gone with a different EGA palette. Anyone know why they chose the one they did? It's different from the windows EGA palette.
Probably because it's a kids game and they wanted it to be colourful! And this goes for all the colour stuff in Keen.

Plus, white Keen is effectively devoid of race because hardly anyone is that white (I'm resisting putting a Michael Jackson comment in there.). So, it kinda keeps race out of it.

Princess Lindsay looks normal!

I'd never thought of Duke to be sunburned, but you are right!

The lead character from Xargon looks fairly normal.
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That's because Xargon isn't EGA.
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Post by Levellass »

Indeed, but it seems that ID used a default EGA palette of some kind with most of its games; when we patch the palette in Keen we have to *make* a whole new palette, which suggests that the game does something simpler, like the palette wasn't even stored in the game and it just said 'Yeah, I use EGA palette 4' or something. Does anyone know how it works?
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tulip wrote:That's because Xargon isn't EGA.
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