Keen: Modding

Does it need to be? I know they removed the music to save space, but did they remove the music player code as well?

Oh right sorry, I thought you were posting the graphics because you couldn't import them. How are you going with the mod in general then? If you're looking at tile attributes you must have a few levels done - can you post some screenshots of them? I'm curious to see what they look like. Any plans fo...

The images are looking good! But unfortunately they are 24-bit true colour and the game is only EGA 16-colour - so none of the images can be imported into the game as they are. I was going to import some of the tileset images, but they'll need to be reduced to 16-colour EGA with the correct palette ...

This looks like a really great mod, well done Levellass! I really like the way the palette changes make it look almost VGA-like, and the music is really good too! Plus new things like shooting upwards are pretty impressive, and I did laugh at "Keenrush the Tormentor" in the story :-) Unfor...

The ModdingWiki now has a link :-)

Sorry about that, but I want to keep the ModdingWiki as a place to go for reference information rather than a news/blog site :-) I hope you'll add a page for your mod once you have released the final version.

FYI Camoto can already modify the Cosmo graphics, so if you can't compile it yourself you're welcome to send me your graphics and I can import them for you until the Windows version is ready. Here is a proof of concept where I just drew randomly over some tiles in my image editor, and imported them ...

I should also add that Frenkel has written a program to edit the graphics called Sammod, which I will add to the wiki page now.

If anything shows up it will hopefully appear on the Secret Agent page on the ModdingWiki . Secret Agent is one of the games I want to include in Camoto, but IIRC one of the problems was figuring out which level codes match up with which images. Once a formula can be figured out then a level editor ...

Thanks for the info, that does explain something I've wondered about for a long time (and since it came up again modding Monster Bash sprites I thought it was time I found out.) So if it is to do with offsets of eight pixels, why only 1, 2 or 4 shifts? Why not 8 shifts so the sprites can move around...

Hi all, If you look at the Keen T+F10 cheat, you can see that some sprites have a number of "shifts" loaded, and using the left and right arrow keys you can view these shifts where available. Each shift appears to be a copy of the sprite shifted left or right by a pixel, but I'm wondering ...

Good points, thanks. I had planned to allow objects to be grouped together and treated as a single object, so in this case I think it will have to mean the group appears as a single layer, i.e. other objects can't appear in between the grouped items - they are either above or below the whole group (...

Try not to think of this in terms of what is technically possible in a game. The objects I am thinking of are an abstract concept only used when editing a level. The objects will be "flattened" into whatever layers are available when saving the map, but while you're editing it will be poss...

Hi all, I've got a slightly odd question about level design, as the answer will influence how the Camoto level editor works. This applies to other games too, as well as Keen. Ignoring map layers, if you consider that a bunch of tiles represent an object (like a sign, or a platform), and some objects...

I just uploaded a version with the source code. Possibly it was so hard for you to find as it's called TSRMusic, not TSMusic! I've renamed the wiki page.