Keen: Modding

What happens (As near as I can tell, I'm sure I posted this somewhere...) is that a sprite executes a behavior that sets its h speed to 0, usually this is searching, you will find if you set the Vorts, Yorps etc to not search, they will not glitch. When this is done up against a wall AND that wall ...

I like Xky's ideas, and I say implement that and take it a step further. Switch the pogo with the teddy bear. Since there's a pogo available in the last level, the game is still perfectly winnable. Suddenly, you have a game where lots of points and areas are difficult to reach or unaccessible, almos...

Just wanted to point out that the link on the site to the pckf is broken.

Could someone please make a score reset patch for galaxy, like the patch for vorticons below?

http://www.keenmodding.org/viewtopic.ph ... 83fff32f63

Thanks,
Stealthy71088

I've done some experimentation with the vorticon to try to determine why it gets stuck in the wall, and how this could be possibly fixed. After much study, I'm come up with a theory as to how it works. I don't have the ability to look into the assembly and actually play with it though to see, but he...

So I was thinking about it for awhile, and I came up with a possibility. It's far too late for any of my mods, but I'll post it in case someone wants to use it some day. If you would like to use checkpoints, all you really have to do is apply the in level teleportation patch and the hold onto keycar...

Perfect! This is exactly what I was looking for! Thanks!

So i thought I saw in one of the old keen 5 level packs a setup in which flipping a switch changed where a door exited to. How does this work exactly? Can I do this from KeenNext, or is there some patch that does it, or was I just seeing things?

Unless the save doesn't store the level number (which is possible), I would have thought that the game could simply be patched to skip the check for being on the map level, thus creating in level saving. If the level number wasn't stored, obviously this would be a little more complicated, as you wou...

I know there has been a great deal of discussion of in level saving for keen 1-3. Did anyone ever figure out a way to do it?

If you're willing to sacrifice a sprite, you could patch the line that calls shooting to the behavior of another sprite. You could then patch the next line of that sprite back to the original's shooting sprite.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3771470/patches.zip Most of what you want is in here. Some of the things you listed are very doable, but require multiple patches, which you can find here. Keep in mind that for the most part (unless possibly if you're Lemm), we really can't create new behaviors from scratch,...

Through some experimentation I think I figured out how Smirky searches. It first takes anything that's close to it. After that, it teleports to the highest "collectible", grabs it if it can, and when that collectible no longer exists, it teleports down to the next highest until the entire ...

So what I had was a foot being created when an inchworm collided with schoolfish spawned in level, not from Keen's shot. My plan was to use the mushroom as a kind of special door that only opened when enough schoolfish were collected, among other things. After that, I don't mind the loss of one scho...

I understand that Smirky's go after items that have special properties, and that this patch describes what they teleport towards. %patch $11C62 $04 ##$04 is teleport to items Are there other values I can change that $04 to? Can I make it teleport near Keen? Also which items exactly do the Smirky's t...