Shadow Jack (Alpha Demo)
Shadow Jack (Alpha Demo)
For Keenday, 2014:
My Keen 1 mod demo that's about two years old now and has nothing to do with Commander Keen. I haven't worked on it in quite a while but intend to after or between work on SOTV. The eventuality this is intended to become will be a mod with levels the player can return to and play differently based on accomplishments in other levels. Level to level interaction linked by the world map.
Download ShadowJack-Alpha1.0
This demo doesn't really show any of that off though and mostly demonstrates the patching features which are heavily inspired by Flaose's Bad Carma(ck), Keenrush's Fall Up. Huge thanks to Dr. Kylstein for hammering out some serious patching just for this mod, and also Keenrush, Lemm, and Levellass. Plenty of patches borrowed from Flaose and Commander Spleen too.
Anyway, have fun
My Keen 1 mod demo that's about two years old now and has nothing to do with Commander Keen. I haven't worked on it in quite a while but intend to after or between work on SOTV. The eventuality this is intended to become will be a mod with levels the player can return to and play differently based on accomplishments in other levels. Level to level interaction linked by the world map.
Download ShadowJack-Alpha1.0
This demo doesn't really show any of that off though and mostly demonstrates the patching features which are heavily inspired by Flaose's Bad Carma(ck), Keenrush's Fall Up. Huge thanks to Dr. Kylstein for hammering out some serious patching just for this mod, and also Keenrush, Lemm, and Levellass. Plenty of patches borrowed from Flaose and Commander Spleen too.
Anyway, have fun
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Ohhhh wow. This really knocks my socks off. Unreal. Super excited for the next release!
Decided to flick on the record button the moment I started up the mod:
http://youtu.be/RtVhCUBG0dM
Decided to flick on the record button the moment I started up the mod:
http://youtu.be/RtVhCUBG0dM
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Heh, this is neat. The feel of the levels are great. Complexity obviously isn't as high as it could be, but that might not be what you're going for and this is only the alpha after all.
Keening_Product was defeated before the game.
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- Paramultart
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And this is why everyone likes you, TSK.troublesomekeen wrote:Ohhhh wow. This really knocks my socks off. Unreal. Super excited for the next release!
Decided to flick on the record button the moment I started up the mod:
http://youtu.be/RtVhCUBG0dM
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pretty cool. It gets my vote for best keenday release 2014. I actualy kind of like that it's not as hard as fall up. needing charges to "pogo" is very cool and works well. I do think it should get harder later on in the mod but these levels are good to introduce the abilities to find out how they work. Why no enemies? Did you simply not make them yet or do you intent to keep them out?
This Keen Day turned out great! All these crazy ideas and concepts, experiments -- Keen mod(der)s rule. This is so sleek. So many clever ideas for altering gameplay. It's great to see your modding treatment of the Vorticons again. Can't wait the full.
My newest mod - Commander Keen: Sunset: viewtopic.php?t=8568 | codename H.Y.E.N.A.
I do think it should get harder later on in the mod but these levels are good to introduce the abilities to find out how they work.
I really should have clarified that these 5 levels, as they exist in this demo, will not be in the final game. Levels 1-4 each show off one or two features of the mod and the 5th level is kind of a conglomeration of these features. All only for testing. The final game will have introduction levels similar (better) than what's seen here.If you're planning to work on this, I'll wait for the final version instead.
Nothing made yet. I do intend to have them, but I haven't designed any or looked into patching options for enemy behaviors. I feel the default enemy behaviours are by and large unsuitable for the kind of gameplay I'm looking for, and I also have to factor in that the gravity modifier in the aethereal state also affects enemies.Why no enemies? Did you simply not make them yet or do you intent to keep them out?
Looks fantastic!!! I've always wanted to see that Duke Nukum style block-shooting mechanic in Keen, so well done on that. As was pointed out earlier, this mod has strong elements of Fall Up, but with something darker, more mysterious, dare I say it more Spleenish about it. Looking forward to the final thing!! Hurrah for Vorticons modding!! (On another note, I can't wait for Vool either!).
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I just realized how much this reminds me of that Sudden Dusk mod I never finished. (Mostly just the black silhouette, shootable blocks, and vague spookiness and whatnot.)
I don't get the Fall Up comparisons... I guess because of the puzzles?
Anyway, good play. I'm glad you released this.
I don't get the Fall Up comparisons... I guess because of the puzzles?
Anyway, good play. I'm glad you released this.
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