Heh, that's actually a neat idea, keen jr defending his house from a minor alien invasion. I had some idea awhile back for a 'retro style' keen in only black and white, this story sounds like it would fit that theme rather well.
a black and white keen prequel? kewl idea. i was thinking it could be set back on gnosticus iv, you remember when it said in the keen 4 story 'they owe him a favour,' in the prequel you could see what that is
The Commander Keen Community Mod was a planned project that never really got off the ground. (Or if it did, not more than a few inches.) It has its own forum over on K:M. http://www.keenmodding.org/viewforum.php?f=14 Reading threads in that forum make me sad. All those shattered dreams .....
speaking of a keen prequel, maybe a sort of keen epilogue game set in the future would be cool. young Billy could be an elderly William, and he could still be a prolific pogoist and galactic, or universal hero. point items could be smoking pipes, dentures (sp?), books (like in keen 1 I guess), and maybe coffee or arthritis meds. Well, it sounds like a bad idea now that I write it out. but i hope somebody will disagree with me.
the idea of ano older keen sounds interesting...but not too old, im thinking in his twenties or something, the idea of a 50 year old keen sounds just wrong
I think he would. It seems to me that it isn't youth and especially not ignorance that compels the lad to use a pogo-stick. You'd think someone with such a high IQ would have thought of something different than a pogo-stick, even at 8-yrs old. But honestly, those genius folks often do the most unexpected and bizarre seeming things for ideas that we just don't get. I'm sure he'd ride a pogo even in his twilight years. Kind of like Indiana Jones and the whip, ya know.