Keen: Modding

WOW! I never expected the mod to be out this early. I have only played through a few levels so far, and I must say the timing aspect changes the game completly! The game is a lot more tense and works well with the crazy graphics style. The sprites all look really great, especially the cloud effect, ...

That is awsome news! I can't wait to see what you've done with outdoor level design and all the great artwork you've shown bits and pieces of!

KeenRush, don't you dare press the delete key! You haven't posted any screens of your various incomplete mods for over a year, so I was very interested when I saw this topic. The Keen sprite does look very good, I especialy like the big obvious "G" on the helmet. The Grey areas do well to ...

levellord, if you look at the right hand side of the picture it says "redrawn by stickmanofdoom", that's what I meant by "copied". And thanks all for the compliments! The comic took me 6 hours to draw!

thanks!

The comic is just copied from page 50 of "The Days Are Just Packed", a collection of Calvin and Hobbes comics. It was origonally ment as a preview replacement, that's why it 320x200 pixels.

Here is the Spaceman Spiff sprite i have created for my mod as well as the comic I redrew. http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v294/stickmanofdoom/spiff_run.gif http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v294/stickmanofdoom/spiff_jump.gif Don't worry, I redrew all the keen sprite frames but didn't feel lik...

here is a site about sprite design, making tiles and eliminating the grid appearance they create. It's pretty interesting and useful stuff. the site is http://pixeltutorial.cjb.net/

When i redrew a spaceman Spiff comic for a preview replacement, I measured all the sizes of the panel and converted the lengths into pixels, and it worked out really well! Mabey the same can be done by drawing the picture on paper and measuring the different things in the picture. As for sprite insp...

Wow! That was a fun mod. I enjoyed the dieing animations although the grunt replacements didnt look quite dead after stunning. The bridges added quite a bit of the puzzle element, and the puzzles were fun to solve as well. The "dark screens" looked great as did the giant gear. The chalenge...

Wow! Those games are still selling that well? I can see why they might want to keep Keen then.

I wonder how much money id gets from commander keen. I sure the amount is insignificant compared to its recent games like Quake III and Return to castle Wolfenstein, and they probably arn't going to do anything else with keen after their attempt with the GBA failed. If the keen community asked for t...

Thanks!

Is it possible to change the amount of time that the preview pictures stay on the screen before they change to the next one? I redrew a sunday Spaceman Spiff comic in MSpaint (an 8 eight hour process) and the picture changes before you can finish reading it.

WOW! this mod looks so much like it was ported right off the NES. I like how you put little ammo in the levels, you can't go Rambo-style into these levels. The dungens look really good, with the attention to detail like the bricks in the background that are red from the glow of the lava. I really li...