Keen's shirt colour does not Thai in with opposition
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Keen's shirt colour does not Thai in with opposition
Why is Keen's shirt pink?
Is it for compatibility with CGA graphics, a way of dealing with the limited EGA palette or what?
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Is it for compatibility with CGA graphics, a way of dealing with the limited EGA palette or what?
PS: 4:25am subject line is win
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Well, 6 of the colors were already used in Keen's sprites. And since colors 8-15 are pretty much lighter shades of colors 0-7 (except for 6 and 14), it would make sense to choose the last remaining color: 5.
In this picture, colors are numbered from left to right, starting with "0" in the top left corner, FYI.
It's red in Keen GBC - they decided to make him more manly...
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As in Tom Hall?Grimson wrote:Keen's real-life model wore a purple shirt.
Thanks for the answers everyone
In the light of a more reasonable hour it's pretty flipping obvious what the probable reasoning was. (That's a critique of my question, not of all of your responses.) Esp. considering the background colours in conjunction with the limited palette.
EDIT: Oh, I remember why I asked this now. Is the CGA palette a customised palette or did it just happen to have Keen's shirt colour? Because yeah, his pretty damn iconic shirt works in both CGA and EGA versions.
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No, the kid they IIRC used as a reference for Keen's postures. I read somewhere that they saw some kid in the street, wearing the football helmet, pogo stick and a purple shirt. I can't seem to find the source...As in Tom Hall?
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There are two standardised CGA pallettes: Black/White/Cyan/Magenta and Black/White/Red/Green. CGA Keen uses the former. It is also possible with CGA to create your own pallette (by choosing four of a possible sixteen colours), however this uses up extra memory and I doubt Id wanted to waste any given that they were already trying to cram a high-spec game into an out-dated graphical environment...kuliwil wrote:EDIT: Oh, I remember why I asked this now. Is the CGA palette a customised palette or did it just happen to have Keen's shirt colour? Because yeah, his pretty damn iconic shirt works in both CGA and EGA versions.
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http://www.3drealms.com/fanstuff/keenstory/page2.htmlGrimson wrote:No, the kid they IIRC used as a reference for Keen's postures. I read somewhere that they saw some kid in the street, wearing the football helmet, pogo stick and a purple shirt. I can't seem to find the source...
Lol, I should've known!StupidBunny wrote:http://www.3drealms.com/fanstuff/keenstory/page2.htmlGrimson wrote:No, the kid they IIRC used as a reference for Keen's postures. I read somewhere that they saw some kid in the street, wearing the football helmet, pogo stick and a purple shirt. I can't seem to find the source...
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Haha.
But yeah, I was talking to Tom Hall on Facebook once and he said that the character was based partially off him as a kid, labeling the Packer helmet and Converse sneakers as directly taken from his childhood.
The helmet through his team, obviously. I don't think he ran around with that on. Or maybe...
But yeah, I was talking to Tom Hall on Facebook once and he said that the character was based partially off him as a kid, labeling the Packer helmet and Converse sneakers as directly taken from his childhood.
The helmet through his team, obviously. I don't think he ran around with that on. Or maybe...
"Hi, I'm Tom Sellick's moustache."
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