Keen: Modding

Can anyone tell me say, what stops you walking over blocks in the map? Is there some way of hex-editing it to see what tile is used? It is ruining my map. I just realised what might be causing you trouble: There are some sprites that can affect the ability to walk around the map. Particularly these...

The prizes have been sorted (see the announcement), and the contest has officially resumed.

The final mod must be submitted to keenmoddingcontest@andy.durdin.net on or before the 1st of July 2007.

The first place winner will receive a Commander Keen CD, signed (and illustrated!) by Tom Hall.

Zero X. Diamond wrote:Let me get this straight: currently, we've still not a due date due to problems arranging prizes?

That is correct. But expect an announcement shortly.

I apologise to all the members here for the recent outages of the Keen:Modding forum. I have made some configuration changes that should prevent this problem in future.

Shadow Master wrote:for the mean time, this project needs a new name.

I named it "LModkeen" because of "Linux", but now it is also the second unofficial Win32 ModKeen. I need "ideas" for the L.

Loony? Light? Lapwing? Lollipop? :)

levellass wrote:Also, CK4PATCH doesn't recognize the %ckmhead.obj comand

Then you're using the old version of CK4Patch, and you need to download the new one.

Even if no-one else is, I am excited by your progress here. If I find time, I'd like to port the updated version back to Win32 and OS X at least, perhaps also DOS (with djgpp).

Can you give an example of a patch file where they work and one where they don't?

Edit: Thanks CK Guy -- corrected it. It's been too long since I did anything in QB...

Two second place winners will receive a The Universe is Toast poster, with artwork by TooMuchSpareTime.

OK, I just started playing the first few levels. There's no question that they're hard -- your approach to level building seems to be to fill it with traps that require good jump control, rather than the more normal "have a place to explore with a few enemies scattered around". I'll certai...

Of course!

XkyRauh wrote:What the heck is this all about?
http://www.sourimage.com/img/970b6c1999 ... _NoWay.bmp
There's no way. No way. How can you make that jump, up and right?

Two words: Impossible Pogo.

The tiles must at least be customised, but the layout of the map need not change -- after all, the map doesn't serve a greate deal of purpose in a single-level mod, and not much more with two levels.