What can we do to help?

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Deltamatic
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What can we do to help?

Post by Deltamatic »

This mod looks great and I'd like to play it some time, but I'm not sure what stuff is next in line to complete. I can has tasklist?
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Post by lemm »

1. Make Tiles
2. Make levels with said tiles.
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Post by CommanderSpleen »

Pretty much this.

There's a pretty solid set of level concepts to work from here and here.

It would be helpful if someone could build a skeleton tileset to work from. Basically outlines of platforms and scenery to be filled in later. This way we can actually start getting the structure of the levels in place.

You could also try playing around with the map. Just make sure you make a copy of the existing one in the Dropbox in case we need to revert.
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Post by doomjedi »

It's sad the project is stuck... :(
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Post by Flyingmouse »

...what happened? There's been no activity in over a year on this mod...
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Post by levellass »

Keen Modding Fatigue Syndrome. (KeMFS.) It affects more awesome things more severely, thus OrbKeen.


I'm frankly only an inch away from stealing all the sprites and releasing a one-lass version of this.
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Post by Flyingmouse »

I mean, I kinda want to help if some people wanted to restart this, but I'd have to do level design as that's one of the few things I can do well while modding.
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Post by doomjedi »

Well, steal if you want to :)

I don't care if it'll be ckcm or another mod - just pity to have all this art go to waste.
I feel this is a time to decide - we go on with it - or scrap the idea and donating art to levellass :)

First - we need to remind ourself where we got stuck. Mapping? Art? Tiles? Coding? Story?
Flyingmouse is ready to help out...
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Post by Nospike »

I think the most important problem right now is that the entire ckcm ordeal can be very confusing to newcomers such as me. I'd say creating a summary thread with the story in full detail, gameplay elements, world map, level themes, tilesets and stuff to do later would help a lot.
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Post by doomjedi »

Nospike wrote:I think the most important problem right now is that the entire ckcm ordeal can be very confusing to newcomers such as me.
There is a DropBox for it, you can see alot of stuff there....are you invited there? If you wanna be part of this - ask someone to send you invitation.
world map
http://ckfs.s3.amazonaws.com/users/omp/ ... 20FULL.jpg
http://www.keenmodding.org/viewtopic.php?t=1396
level themes,
Level list:
http://www.keenmodding.org/viewtopic.php?t=1437
Level concepts:
http://www.keenmodding.org/viewtopic.php?t=1451
tilesets

See DropBox.
Also:
http://www.keenmodding.org/viewtopic.php?t=1140
http://www.keenmodding.org/viewtopic.php?t=1329
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Post by Nospike »

Yeah but accessibility is still a problem. I'm not very interested in participating sadly as I don't have time to commit to yet another project, but I've considered it in the past and this is what set me back. The most important things to summarize are the story and the special gameplay elements like the lick/slug thingy or new Keen's abilities.
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Post by levellass »

And I for one would do levels, but have you SEEN the description for how to do them?

(EXP|[MIN,MAX]): DATA Field_2 Description
...
(EXP|[MIN,MAX]): DATA Field_n Description

The final value of a control tile is (TYPE * 4096) + DATA. Within the DATA, there may be separate fields defined by an EXPonent and a 2's complement value between MIN and MAX.
DATA fields are computed by:
2^EXP * (M + N), where
N is chosen by level maker such that MIN <= N <= MAX; and
M = 0 if N >= 0, or
M = MAX + 1 if N < 0

All data fields are summed.



There's 33Kb of this! Without carriage returns!
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