Super Armageddon 2 Turbo - Keenday Release

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Still trying to make time to complete this: I don't think i'm quite half way yet.

The world map is awesome. I love the music, love the graphics. Has a definite Keen 1 feel without feeling like a graphical swap of Keen 1, even though some of the graphics are just recolored keen 1 graphics. This is already one of my favorite Keen mod world maps.

The same goes for in-level graphics: the majority of them are really nice and work as a great compliment to the original keen 1 graphics. The effect gives it a 'lost episode' feel.

So far I don't care much for the level design, mostly because there are too many of the keen 5 style fire helix thingies, sometimes just long strips of them dividing sections of the level. I think several of the levels i've played so far could benefit from just removing these and making the level less restrictive and more open/explorable--comparable to the original keen 1 levels.

That's just so far though, might think differently as I continue playing.
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Post by Levellass »

I must say the ending was

Disappointing. The text was broken

And twisted to fit the limjited window space.

AND ALSO THE SUDDENLY APPEARING TEXT BIT.


We can patch the ending sequence however we want now, it should have been trivial to alter the ending to be far more smooth.
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Post by Syllypryde »

Levellass wrote:I must say the ending was

Disappointing. The text was broken

And twisted to fit the limjited window space.

AND ALSO THE SUDDENLY APPEARING TEXT BIT.


We can patch the ending sequence however we want now, it should have been trivial to alter the ending to be far more smooth.
You could always do that for Tulip if you would like.
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Post by Levellass »

I doubt he'd like someone poking around his mod after he's done it.
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Post by tulip »

I dunno, but it's not broken for me, I tested it quite a few times on my machine.

This really bugs me: why the hell would anything be broken on one machine and not on the other while we're all using dosbox? This bugged me since Keen X where apparently level28 could be accessed only "on some machines", and ever since I can find those local errors (Aliens vs. Keen, Silcar 4).

Btw, if you want to improve on the ending, go ahead Llass, I won't believe you can until you do. :celtic
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Finished it.
"ID STINKS"
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VikingBoyBilly wrote:Finished it.
"ID STINKS"
:|
Way to spoil it :bloody
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Post by Levellass »

I dunno, but it's not broken for me, I tested it quite a few times on my machine.
Not broken, but... square peg round holed. Look at the patches: (SPOILERS!)

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# First dialogue box at home
%patch 0x015CBD "Keen makes it to his  "
%patch 0x015CD5 "clubhouse to ana- "
%patch 0x015CE9 "lyze the memory. "

%patch 0x015CFB "He pulls out his   "
%patch 0x015D10 "screwdriver and    "
%patch 0x015D25 "twists    "

%patch 0x015D30 "out pops the memory--"

#Text jump
%patch 0x015D47 "No, a message written"
%patch 0x015D5E "in SGA: 'Fooled You"
%patch 0x015D73 "Keen!'     "

%patch 0x015D80 "Signed Mortimer "
%patch 0x015D92 "McMire   "

%patch $15D9C "The project was never "
%patch $15DB4 "planned to happen   "
%patch $15DCA "in the solar system.   "

%patch $15DE2 "That means...      "

%patch $15DF6 "Armageddon II..."

%patch $15E07 "Is still out there ! "
%patch 0x015E1E "Mort wants to toast    "
%patch 0x015E37 "the universe by    "
%patch 0x015E4C "blowing up the sun.  "
%patch 0x015E63 "TUIT!!!!!     "

It would have been much better if it was something like the first window being biger and reading 'Keen makes it home to his clubhouse to analyze the memory chip.' We could fit that all in, and have the lines as long as you want. We wouldn't have to have two windows of 1 line that goes "That means... " and "Armageddon II..."

It all seems a little... forced to me and a few simple patches would have made the ending a lot smoother and more explanatory.
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Post by tulip »

oic. Well it's okay then. I kept the text almost completely as Najawa wrote it, minus a few awful typos in order to keep it consistent with the story text.
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Post by Levellass »

Aaah. i guess that makes sense. But we have the power to do some truly awesome ending scenes now. Multiple backgrounds, any size text boxes, all sorts of bitmaps...
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Wha................. OMG!!!

Post by najawa »

Wow!

Just became aware of this... just now........

Can I see it??? Please???
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Post by tulip »

I've been waiting for you to turn up to play that. (and maybe give your seal of approval)

Oh the link in the first post is dead, I wasn't aware of it. Changed it to the keenwiki link.

So enjoy what you started: http://www.shikadi.net/wiki/files/Mods/ ... -03-14.zip
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Post by Tormentor667 »

Screenshots?
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Post by troublesomekeen »

Tormentor667 wrote:Screenshots?
Of the mod? Okay!

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Post by Tormentor667 »

Thank you :) Looking pretty cool :)
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