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Benvolio wrote: Thu Jun 18, 2020 16:46 there are currently 314 topics in the Release Forum.
That's it - Keen is complete. There can be no more releases. Could an admin please lock that forum ASAP?
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Keening_Product wrote: Thu Jun 18, 2020 18:16
Benvolio wrote: Thu Jun 18, 2020 16:46 there are currently 314 topics in the Release Forum.
That's it - Keen is complete. There can be no more releases. Could an admin please lock that forum ASAP?
And fast before someone else make them 315! :mortlol :O
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Roobar wrote: Thu Jun 18, 2020 18:35
Keening_Product wrote: Thu Jun 18, 2020 18:16
Benvolio wrote: Thu Jun 18, 2020 16:46 there are currently 314 topics in the Release Forum.
That's it - Keen is complete. There can be no more releases. Could an admin please lock that forum ASAP?
And fast before someone else make them 315! :mortlol :O
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LOL! :lol

I always thought this characters looks like a Vorticon:

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This may not have anything to do with the official Keen games:

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...but did someone at Game Freak play Mort's Rescue!? :O
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There are, as of this writing, exactly 667 topics in the Unofficial Keen Games forum. This entire website now belongs to Tormentor667.
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Just that forum, not the entire PCKF. Sorry, I don't make the rules.
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Anyone ever notice how the Omegamatic from Keen 5 looks very similar to the space station from the Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey?

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(And if this was already mentioned, well, I'm not going through 40+ pages.)
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_mr_m_ wrote: Wed Aug 05, 2020 19:24 Anyone ever notice how the Omegamatic from Keen 5 looks very similar to the space station from the Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey?
yeah, I also noticed that. but I think you are the first to mention it here on the forums.

actually, when I started my Keen modding journey I had this ambitious idea to create a 2001 space ship like level. but I never got really far with this idea:

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Nisaba wrote: Wed Aug 05, 2020 21:18
_mr_m_ wrote: Wed Aug 05, 2020 19:24 Anyone ever notice how the Omegamatic from Keen 5 looks very similar to the space station from the Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey?
yeah, I also noticed that. but I think you are the first to mention it here on the forums.

actually, when I started my Keen modding journey I had this ambitious idea to create a 2001 space ship like level. but I never got really far with this idea:

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reference:
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Your space ship remembers me a level I made before I create my levelpack
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That's an interesting comparison, Mr. M. Knowing that there are already a few sci-fi references in Keen, it's possible that Tom Hall was inspired by that movie!

That looks it could be an interesting level, Nisaba.

Did anyone notice that the old Game Maker logo looks it has the letter G in SGA?

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What about the fact that the letter H in SGA is used in Japan as the postal mark?
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looks like this screenshot comes from that Mother 3 fan translation. neat Easter egg.
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LOL I'm the one who named the character Lindsey, because they were already a princess. :p
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Well, it looks like there are now 315 topics in the Release Forum! :mortlol :O Quick, someone release something before Mortimer blows up the PCKF! :mort :dead2 :garg
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