Abandoned Projects: Keen Crisis Earth & Pirate Mod

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Post by VikingBoyBilly »

I... don't understand. In keens 4-6 Commander Keen will stand still unless you press buttons, correct? Sometimes he'll read a book (or moon you), but he won't run away. Unless you're looking at the credits screen.
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It is probably related to a bug in KEENGRAPH, I think at the stage of exporting graphics at the least. I think the problem leading to these glitches is in LIST.TXT, the sprites' hitboxes. While not necessarily simple, it is possible to manually reconstruct these with the help of a memory dump from the game (can be done with the DOSBox debugger), or the "Sprite Test" cheat (F10+T).
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Yeah, it's an annoying KeenGraph problem that has gone unfixed because frankly, nobody uses KG. (Don't fix what ain't used1) and we'll soon have abiathar, a much better utility.
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Such a shame Ceilick and I never finished this project.

I'd like to see it resurrected, and possibly titled simply "Krisis Earth".
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Post by Levellass »

The mod's still there, nothing stopping anyone trying...
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Post by szemi »

I've checked Keen Crisis Earth.

Well, there's a bug in this as well. The one, when Logan opens a door by pressing up button. He doesn't open the door, but "jumps" aside a little bit. KeenGraph causes this is of course while importing the new graphics.
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