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Social Networking for Commander Keen Mods

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 15:05
by Commander Spleen
https://www.facebook.com/keenmodding

http://tinyurl.com/keenmodsgoogleplus

On these pages I'll post mini reviews about various Keen mods at irregular intervals. Mainly intended to broaden the awareness of the amazing work created in this community and hopefully recruit some new Keeners to the PCKF and Keen:Modding in the process.

Depending on interest a secondary group may be spawned for modding related discussion, but I will aim to direct people to Keen:Modding before resorting to that.

Review Submissions

I'm open to submissions of reviews about mods or utilities, tutorials on how to play the games on modern hardware, general or specific modding tutorials, etc. Reviews should be as concise as possible.

Email content and associated images to jimage at gmail dot com.



If you would like a review to be considered as an official Commander Keen Mods post, some

Keep a neutral stance
Exclude your personal opinion and evaluate the mod's strengths and shortcomings on their own merit. Posts that fall outside of this criteria will be classified as opinion pieces.

Avoid rankings
Try not to declare a mod better/worse than another. Comparing other aspects such as difficulty is acceptable. This page is about presenting mods to a broader audience in a way that they might consider playing each one.

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 17:36
by Roobar
It's about time! Gonna make a PCKF fan page too.

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 21:14
by VikingBoyBilly
Does Yorphius II have a sequel?

I spent way too long on this

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 23:02
by Herry Jerry
VikingBoyBilly wrote:Does Yorphius II have a sequel?
Image

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 23:07
by VikingBoyBilly
So is that real or did the cliffhanger at the end never get resolved?

Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2015 5:44
by Levellass
VikingBoyBilly wrote:So is that real or did the cliffhanger at the end never get resolved?
I made a joke mod to resolve it for some april fool's day, don't honestly know what happened to it.

Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2015 14:26
by VikingBoyBilly
Colander Ken is Yorphius II 2?

Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2015 4:42
by VikingBoyBilly
I wrote a review of Crash on Gobo III. Will you make it a main status, spleen?

Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2015 5:22
by Commander Spleen
There are two parts of this review that I'll mark as examples of the aforementioned quality assurance:

* Excluding your personal opinion and evaluating the mod's strengths and shortcomings on their own merit. For guest reviews I'll make allowances in the context of an opinion piece, but if you intend for a review to be an official Commander Keen Mods post, it needs to remain fairly neutral.

* Avoid ranking mods against each other. I'll leave in the part mentioning Ceilick's later mods but trimmed the Yorphius II comparison. Comparing difficulty is fine, so I've also left that in. This page is about presenting mods to a broader audience in a way that they might consider playing each one, not figuring out which work is the "best". If you don't think people should play a particular mod, better not to mention it at all.

Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2015 23:46
by tulip
Kind of nice, but srsly completely unopinionized reviews are kind of besides the point of a review.

Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2015 7:24
by Commander Spleen
Perhaps review is the wrong word, more like synopsis or something. But yeah, I'm finiding it difficult to maintain a relatively neutral stance on the next couple I'm looking at so it may be necessary to loosen that restriction. But it would still be ideal to keep a balance where possible.

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 14:22
by VikingBoyBilly
I'm writing a big review on Ruin of Roib, so I hope that's not the one you're doing.

Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2015 10:48
by Commander Spleen
New post for Mort Day:

https://www.facebook.com/keenmodding/po ... 9964229849

https://plus.google.com/100080888391403 ... 912estHnoc
VBB wrote:I'm writing a big review on Ruin of Roib, so I hope that's not the one you're doing.
Nope, you can have that one.

Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2015 22:12
by tulip
The tiles and various other artwork make impressive use of the EGA palette
8) Actually that's not the ega palette anymore so technically...

Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2016 13:37
by Commander Spleen
With the latest Morticore submission, I've started adding an option to play online using emdosbox. There have also been entries for Lego Keen and Clouds Unseen since the last post here.

https://www.facebook.com/keenmodding/po ... 6750523834

http://jimage.org/keen/playmod/morticore.html