Keen 9.5: The Eight Accumulators

Uwe12 · Post by **Uwe12** » Thu Mar 29, 2012 17:31

I like this levelpack very much.
I don't know, if it's intentional or a bug, but when I try the "view hidden areas"-cheat in "Damp Woods" at normal or hard, the game crashes.

Post by **tulip** » Thu Mar 29, 2012 19:14

heh best anti-cheat: use just a bit below the memory limits. as soon as that bit is added the game crashes. At least that's what I think is happening, I could be wrong though.

Anyway, I played through it, was really worth it, too. I enjoyed every bit of it. The difficulty level is perfect too. And pyramid of pain was the hardest, as the name suggested.
There are a few more sloppily typed message boxes (something like "dont") but I forgot exactly where they were. Also you should fix that coast line left to the small island.
Everything else was perfect, great job!

Bubbatom · Post by **Bubbatom** » Thu Mar 29, 2012 20:42

Thanks for playing tulip, and thanks for pointing out the 'coastline' tiling.
As for some of the text boxes, I didn't add some punctuation due to how much space was for each box.

Thanks again, Tom

Levack · Post by **Levack** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 20:04

I saw you used Demo Tiles

Bubbatom · Post by **Bubbatom** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 23:27

Yes, I sure did! And I reckon the game turned out a lot better with them.

Post by **Keening_Product** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 23:59

I'm proud to say I finished this the other week!

Truly, truly wonderful. It was like playing Keen 4 as a kid all over again; everything new but very genuine.

Bubbatom · Post by **Bubbatom** » Fri Apr 20, 2012 1:47

Glad it brought back memories, I was hoping I would feel the same about it but seeing as I know where everything is and how everything works, it didn't

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Bubbatom · Post by **Bubbatom** » Sun May 27, 2012 12:25

Just couldn't keep myself away from this one. This afternoon I decided to fix up a lot of issues I found after not playing this for a little while.

Gnosticene Village is now a tad bit easier on easy, for a first level.
ALL levels have had had lifewater drop placement revised.
ALL levels have had point placement revised, with many points removed to free up level space.
A couple of levels have adjustments for floating platforms, secret areas, and floor has been placed underneith an incredibly annoying door in The Pyramid of Time.

That's basically it for now, but be ready for a couple of surprises in the near future!

Bernie · Post by **Bernie** » Mon Dec 03, 2012 3:30

i played a bit of it so far and i like it

some parts were better done than the original keen4 (e.g the stone house interiors). very nice work.

Syllypryde · Post by **Syllypryde** » Mon Dec 10, 2012 16:23

Bubbatom wrote:Just couldn't keep myself away from this one. This afternoon I decided to fix up a lot of issues I found after not playing this for a little while.

Gnosticene Village is now a tad bit easier on easy, for a first level.
ALL levels have had had lifewater drop placement revised.
ALL levels have had point placement revised, with many points removed to free up level space.
A couple of levels have adjustments for floating platforms, secret areas, and floor has been placed underneith an incredibly annoying door in The Pyramid of Time.

That's basically it for now, but be ready for a couple of surprises in the near future!

So your link to the game in the introductory post is now updated?

Post by **Levellass** » Mon Dec 10, 2012 19:41

Forgot to mention; if you stop and squish the Skypests, one of the members in their level gets stuck trying to walk off a platform edge: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3940020/ck4patch_003.png I beleive it happens when he stops to think (and forgets to start again. right on the platform edge. You can't see it in the shot but he's stuck flipping back and forth. Here's a savegame, taken in the previous version of the game: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3940020/SAVEGAM0.CK4

Bubbatom · Post by **Bubbatom** » Tue Dec 11, 2012 0:55

Syllypryde wrote: So your link to the game in the introductory post is now updated?

Yep.

As for Mr Member's flipping, I'm pretty sure this can happen with any member near a platform edge, even without the skypest. I've seen this many times in both my mod and keen 4. My brother and I used to find it hilarious!

Post by **Levellass** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 3:59

Either way, this patch makes it far less likely:

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triver18 · Post by **triver18** » Fri Jan 04, 2013 12:34

Finally

Nospike · Post by **Nospike** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 10:45

I had a good laugh at "that explosion really shook me around" when Keen replied "Yup. That's good."