It would be good if the Keen Dreams source code was available as it would be interesting to see the transition from the vorticon engine to galaxy engine.
Which other games are based on the Keen Dreams engine?
There might be a list. So there's Dangerous Dave 3 and 4 also using the Dreams engine. Bio Menace and ScubaVenture are using the Galaxy engine. Shadow Knights might use the Vorticons engine but I'm not sure about this.
AST wrote:It would be good if the Keen Dreams source code was available as it would be interesting to see the transition from the vorticon engine to galaxy engine.
Which other games are based on the Keen Dreams engine?
Keen Vorticons: Slordax (Not KV, but very similar in construction.) Shadow Knights Dangerous Dave 2.
Keen Dreams: Dave 3, Dave 4, Rescue Rover 2
Keen Galaxy: Biomenace, Catacomb 3D (Large portions of code) ScubaVenture
Interestingly Dave 3 and 4 successfully implement soundblaster sounds into a Keen Galaxy like environment.
What you really need, not what you think you ought to want.
wiivn wrote:On the yellow floppy disk is written "Keen Dreams". But anyway, I care more about the Galaxy and the Vorticons sources anyway. Also, I would not be surprised if after John publish Dangerous Dave for the phones, put Keen 1 next.
I asked and Romero said the three non-Alfredo disks were not source, however:
sponge on IRC wrote:there was an interesting test game though, i forget the name but it was pacman in the keen dreams engine. it was a demo game
Figure I'd update since someone will just paste my irc quotes anyway, that I just got the 1-3 sources. No clue what state is in, but I'll probably just see if it builds, do whatever cleanup/prep is necessary, and just include that with the 4-6 (or possibly only 4-5) sources