Did you know that in commander keen 1 marooned on mars

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Did you know that in commander keen 1 marooned on mars

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Did you know that in commander keen 1 marooned on mars

If you open the very first accessible level in keen 1 that is also called level01.ck1 in a level editor such as mindbelt. If you carefully look at the starting location of keen you will see that it is located at coordinate 3,15. or x=3 y=15. That seems to remarkably foreshadow keens final confrontation with his nemesis mortimer mcmire. who has an iq of 315 unlike keens iq of 314. both characters iq seem a reference to pi. 3,1415 ect

Of Course mortimer may have orchestrated everything. the fact that keen got stuck on mars and maybe even how and exactly where somehow.

Of Course you may wonder if the mindbelt logic of counting coordinates is specific to mindbelt only and not the original keen game. Namely counting the 2 tile border and counting the very first tile as 0 rather than one. Still this may in fact be the default keen logic. If not, it's still a remarkable coincidence.
It still makes you wonder if this was an easter egg that was intended to be potentially found at one point. Then maybe they also always intended keen to be customizable at one point. There may be evidence pointing in that direction also.
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Re: Did you know that in commander keen 1 marooned on mars

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lol

I've looked at that level in Mindbelt, but never bothered to check such things
Put me in a room full of chlorine. Results: I die and turn into a pillar of salt and a very buggy Keen 6.

IMPOSSIBLE BULLET FOR LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Did you know that in commander keen 1 marooned on mars

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I know right. I only noticed this recently by accident. i tried to take a quick look for other meaningful coordinates in keen 1 but found none.
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