Keen Awards 2025: Nominations

[Dave216]

Your nomination is written in plural, yet you linked to only one piece. Did you intend to include the other piece Symphony made as well, or do you want to just nominate the one you put on your post? Just making sure.

Oh, yes, my mistake. I meant to share her post, not just a single image. I'd nominate both of them.

[DoomJedi]

Demos can also be nominated.

Thanks, good to know.

[Dave216]

I would like to nominate DoomJedi's Bomberkeen, but which category would it fall into? Fangame, I assume? Or "Really Keen Stuff"? Are fangames a strict 'recreating the Keen engine in a different engine' sort of thing? Since this is more a "Dyna Blaster mod" that's Keen themed. I am guessing not, but I am not sure. Still, I think it's very cool and would like to nominate it for whatever category suits it best.

Edit: Oh, great. Now my brain is registering the fact it's presented as Fangame/Other Mod

[DoomJedi]

I would like to nominate DoomJedi's Bomberkeen

Thank you so much! This is a product of love on my part, and it's great to be appreciated (and again big thanks for K1n9_Duk3 for all the coding enhancements of this).
As currently no updates are planned and being fully playable, it can be treated as a "release".

Since this is more a "Dyna Blaster mod" that's Keen themed

To be more...strict, it's not a mod of "Dyna Blaster" game but is a different engine, but it's BomberKeen gameplay/reskin of a sort. I don't think it has to be a Keen-like platformer to be counted as Keen fangame. It's a game, by a Keen fan for Keen fans, it's clearly Keen themed and features Keen - it's a Keen fangame LOL

Now my brain is registering the fact it's presented as Fangame/Other Mod

Yes, this is how it's set in Keen wiki so I hope it settles it (?)
https://keenwiki.shikadi.net/wiki/BomberKeen

[Snortimer]

For either "Most Promising Project" or "Best Update to a Mod" (if it gets released in 2025), I'd like to nominate Gridlock's update to The Alphamatic.
viewtopic.php?p=113047#p113047

For "Best Work of the Hiatus" (2005-2018), I'd like to nominate:
Dead in the Desert (2009)
NetKeen (2011)
Episode 58 - The Ruin of Roib (2013)
The Terror from Outer Space (2013)
*Keen Meets the Meats (2015)
*Atroxian Realm (2016)
Bug-fixed Keen 3 (2016)
*The Alphamatic (2017)

Basically, all the mods from this period that I especially enjoyed. Although I have a feeling that "Atroxian Realm" will win handily... well, or "NetKeen".
As for whether to split up this category, I dunno, maybe? I wouldn't mind either way. Might make it more interesting. If you decide to split it at the decade mark ("missed 2000s", "missed 2010s"), if would be easy enough to recategorize the existing nominations. Or, since it's 14 years, you could split it into 7 years each: 2005-2011, 2012-2018.

I might make more nominations later on. If I do, should I update this post or make a new post? (Or both?)

EDIT: Those marked with * may not be eligible; see discussion below.

[SodiumtheGlitcher]

For either "Most Promising Project" or "Best Update to a Mod" (if it gets released in 2025), I'd like to nominate Gridlock's update to The Alphamatic.
viewtopic.php?p=113047#p113047

For "Best Work of the Hiatus" (2005-2018), I'd like to nominate:
Dead in the Desert (2009)
NetKeen (2011)
Episode 58 - The Ruin of Roib (2013)
The Terror from Outer Space (2013)
Keen Meets the Meats (2015)
Atroxian Realm (2016)
Bug-fixed Keen 3 (2016)
The Alphamatic (2017)

Basically, all the mods from this period that I especially enjoyed. Although I have a feeling that "Atroxian Realm" will win handily... well, or "NetKeen".
As for whether to split up this category, I dunno, maybe? I wouldn't mind either way. Might make it more interesting. If you decide to split it at the decade mark ("missed 2000s", "missed 2010s"), if would be easy enough to recategorize the existing nominations. Or, since it's 14 years, you could split it into 7 years each: 2005-2011, 2012-2018.

I might make more nominations later on. If I do, should I update this post or make a new post? (Or both?)

Atroxian Realm was nominated in 2019 for update 1.3, so I don't think it should count. Also, if you're nominating the Alphamatic update, it feels a little weird to nominate the original as well. I'm not the judge, so those are just my opinions.

[Snortimer]

Atroxian Realm was nominated in 2019 for update 1.3, so I don't think it should count. Also, if you're nominating the Alphamatic update, it feels a little weird to nominate the original as well. I'm not the judge, so those are just my opinions.

Perhaps you're right. I do see that Atroxian Realm was not only nominated, but won in 2019. Do you think it should be limited to mods that haven't received an update since then that could have been nominated, or are in the process of getting one? That would disqualify not only "Alphamatic" but "Keen Meets the Meats" as well (to be fair, when first released the latter, for all its brilliance, had major bugs that were only fixed years later by someone else. E.g. Easy mode was not even accessible unless you never saved the game).

By the way, looking back at earlier Keen Awards, I really like the "Poll Results" thread in 2019, in which you could see at a glance not only the winners but how popular the different nominations were. Could that be brought back please? Or perhaps the results can be displayed that way in the "Winners" thread.

[hairmonster12]

If it’s okay I’d like to nominate the one and only Tom Hall for 4-1 Keenest Person Of the Year, because he’s been active in the Keen Discord answering fan questions and giving insight into Keen’s development and ID Software history which is way cool to see!

[troublesomekeen]

Hello again,
For more 2.6: Best Gameplay Video
I'd like to nominate hairmonster12 for the Ruin of Roib series. Although started in 2017, the big finale was very recent (and technically the majority of the episodes were done this year).
playlist

I'd also like to nominate Thunder rail Productions for the big Battle of the Brains finale of this month also:
playlist

Lastly I'd like to nominate CapnClever for the Keen8 Glitchless run of last month:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FemIOvziq3w
I admire the hydro levels especially
and the dispatching of the boss