Keen 8: Dead in the Desert

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Keen 8: Dead in the Desert

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I've told a few folks, but here's the public announcement: I'm resuming work on my keen 6 mod and its my goal to finish this year :)

A few screens of how the graphics are going so far. Keep in mind, they make the mod look a lot more complete at this point than it actually is. Graphical cirticism is welcome.

Enjoy.
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Post by Commander Spleen »

Dude, those screens are awesome. Those red slopes are brilliantly done, though the one that slopes up-right seems a bit narrow.

The rock on the left in the title screen needs a bit of shading work. And the Universe is Toast text looks pretty drab. Needs some shiny!

Also, finally has two Ls. :dopefish
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Post by Genius314 »

Commander Spleen wrote:Those red slopes are brilliantly done, though the one that slopes up-right seems a bit narrow.
Isn't that how they were done in the original game? They just were never stacked like that, so you don't really notice.

"Finaly"? :p
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Post by Lava89 »

Argh! Why do these big budget franchises always HAVE to be a trilogy?? Can't we just get something without 2 darn sequels??









Just kiddin'.

Welcome back to the modding world. :)
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Post by Anoba »

Brilliant! Keep it up, Ceilick. It's one of the few things I'm sincerely looking forward to.
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Post by Ceilick »

Also, finally has two Ls.
The funny thing about this is that while drawing that I was thinking, "Finally has two Ls, doesn't it? Oh well, fucl it".

Genius314 is correct about the up-right slopes, they were narrower than the up-left slops in the original games.

Will work on that rock and shinying up the text.
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Post by KeenRush »

This going to be mega-cool. :dopekeen :D Loving the shots. Also, great idea with the slopes!
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Post by tulip »

I feel a bit like going home after a rock concert: I thinking, man would I like to be able to play the guitar like that guy...
Well, seems you made something unreachable, looks awesome.
Did you use Photographs to model these Rocks?
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Looking kinda neat!
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Post by gerstrong »

Very cool! but I have to say one thing about your ad: "finally" is written with double "ll". No offense, but I think it looks better that way.

I hope sometime I can support CK 4-6 in CloneKeenPlus. I really do. Than It will be more awesome playing those mods without dosbox. I really like your graphics. This is something, I could not do...
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Post by gerstrong »

Sorry, you found out about the 2Ls. I didn't read your message. Oh well... :o
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Post by tulip »

As I went through Ceilicks old mods to add information to the keen wiki, I noticed misspelling has always been a hobby of ceilick :P

A note for gerstrong: there is an "edit post" button, if you typed something wrong or just have to add a sentence. levellass had to tell me before, because I also didn't notice myself.
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Post by Djaser »

Those canyons look good.
Will try.
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Post by grafix »

The little purple snake thing is awesome. The canyons are also really good. Looking forward to seeing some levels.
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Post by Galaxieretter »

That title screen is bad ass! The graphics in this look pretty good.

2009? That leaves... 10 months.
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