Keen: Modding

I can see the individual pixels in that shot!

On a *completely* related note, Keen looks absolutely awesome in widescreen. Don't ask why. If I knew, I'd probably turn myself in to an insane asylum. Maybe I should do that anyway...

Apparently, things that fall into the water don't make it off the bottom of the screen. It's been a (long) while since I've player YII, so I don't really remember. Beyond that, it is certaintly true that the points should be more organized. Leaving them randomly scattered may make for brain cramps a...

I'm going to make a quick comparison of the first levels of Keens 1 and 3 to prove a point. The first level of Keen 1 is, as people have said, easy. It provides a good introduction to the basic game mechanics, including jumping (though not with the pogo), shooting, hazards, and a single (mostly) har...

And they become more useful for riding to reach hidden points... and less useful to take through tunnels so you don't have to worry about slugs or Licks.

Yes, I really do do that. =P

How would one pronounce "narln" with just one syllable? Nrln? Nrn? Anyway, I've got one word for all of you name aficianados out there: Latin. It's true, of course, that short and sweet is better than long and convoluted, but I find it more important that the name in some way reflect the c...

I recall seeing this error message (or a very similar one) before, and not having much trouble fixing it, but it has been quite some time now and I don't recall what I did. You could try some basic diagnostics; for example, extract and tehn import without changes the graphics for Keen 1 just to make...

The best advice I can give is to plan ahead. It's true, lot's of people build levels from scratch, in a level editor, but the perspective of being able to see an entire level laid out in front of you on a piece of graph paper is unique and empowering. You'll see things with such a large-scale view t...

Just so nobody's worried, I figured it out: the problem is actually with my new laptop not always displaying EGA graphics (and not just in Keen). I have no clue why, but thus goes life.

=P

Mmm, yeah, maybe. I've tried reimporting to no avail. Then I made a two-second backup and re-extracted the graphics. Lo and behold, they're completely intact. Actually, the version that Modkeen extracted was significantly out of date (more out of date than the last version i had played with), but ot...

Here's a new one for y'all: I ran an import on Keen 2 (using Modkeen 1.0) and lo and behold--- Nothing. Instead of beautiful modded graphics, I came up with complete, utter, complete blackness. No red, no green, no nothing. Just black. I know this is a graphics problem because all of the interface e...

If it came on 5.25" floppies, it predates Goodtimes Software and the ID Anthology by a good three or four years. =)

Also, doesn't that patch work for the Goodtimes Software version?

*coughkeenrushcough*

The values are probably [top, left, height, width] or some rearrangement therof. I believe the second set is the origin (in relation to what, I forget) and the third one controls... something.

It's all well documented in the Modkeen 2 readme.

Um, yeah, and doesn't Modkeen require that the clipping boxes actually be done in a seperate text file?

(Or did Andy fix that and I missed it?)

I believe that the bounder already follows Keen. You can see this by getting on one and steering it around.