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Really weird; do you have a savegame from that I can look at?

uh... i dont think so. if i ever come across the error again i'll try to remember to save it for you.

I'm sure you're just dying to find some bugs in it. Especially tile bugs.

mmm yeah that kinda stuff gets me hot.

hey P.S- i gave your mod another shot lass and i came across that same problem where the level wasn't 'canceling out' on the map when you finish it- and heres the savegame i did:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1yhfe386lerovxo/SAVED1.CK3

perhaps a word of warning- it actually also crashed my dosbox aswell as my windows so i had to restart my comp. it map happen with yours aswell if you try this :/ not sure

I downloaded some pirate copies of this from the net....

(kidding)

Having a pirate copy of Keen 3 in a pirate mod, tsk tsk.

Maybe it's just a lack of sleep, but I found the juxtaposition of the music and garbage in this bugged load to be moderately hilarious: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-B0gfbU_XA

FUN FACT: Those tiles are actually a representation of the IMF file that somehow gets pushed into level memory!

You've just gotta love unmanaged memory!

Fleexy wrote:You've just gotta love unmanaged memory!

It seems that the computers of me and my beta testers are too old school, they lack modern games and programs that mess with DosBox's running environment. As a result I have managed to make a mod that is the equivalent of an egg balanced on its pointy end. Less stable computers easily disrupt it.

This means that there is no point in me releasing any more mods; I simply cannot mess them up well enough to see the inevitable bugs. So it goes.

I'm enjoying what I've played so far. I believe mods with several small, leisurely levels bring out the fun factor of Keen much more than ones with a few huge, sprawling ones. Each one seems to have it's own little gimmick, too. There's one centered around using the birds, a bridge level, a small fortress filled with dynamite, one where you take a boat ride, things like that which give each level their own unique identity without feeling like forced gimmicks.

It makes me want to burn some of my old mods in a fire and have someone else make my levels.

That said, I might get jinxed in the butt later on seeing as Keenrush is the big bad. His rank is lower than dirt!

edit: How do I loot this booty, mateys?

Levellass wrote:This means that there is no point in me releasing any more mods;

That's Levellass:

Ceilick wrote:I feel like this will be my last Keen galaxy mod

That's Ceilick:




And that's how the PCKF looks now:

how come you never get extra lives with the score? it makes picking up points pointless

Yeah, I'm not a fan of point-lives. You can pick up extra Keens but given that the max possible score is over 5 million... nah.

edit: How do I loot this booty, mateys?

Aaah, you CAN get them via two careful jumps, but they're more trolling than anything since you need immense skill and they're not that much points. (It took me 28 tries to get them both; the second most tries on a level. (The worst level killed me 119 times. I marked it with a skull square in the actual level as a warning to those who come after me.)

levellass wrote:Yeah, I'm not a fan of point-lives.

yeah but doesnt that make point collecting pretty pointless? i dont know about other people but i dont care for the highscore screen. now i got no incentive to pick up loots

That's ok with me, nobody says you should be going for everything. But if people think it's a good idea I can reinstate the lives dynamic.