Xky's One Level Mod
Sweet Dude
To: ID Software, This is a message to you: Us modders have beat your standards. Your just going to have to come out with keen 7 to beat us!
To: Xky: Whoa! I Just Love it! Your going to have to teach a graphics making class.
There are 3 levels of Keen Graphics (lowest to highest):
The Amature Modder
Commander Keen Origionals
Xky Rauh
Keep It Up!!!
-Najawa-
To: Xky: Whoa! I Just Love it! Your going to have to teach a graphics making class.
There are 3 levels of Keen Graphics (lowest to highest):
The Amature Modder
Commander Keen Origionals
Xky Rauh
Keep It Up!!!
-Najawa-
You mean Flash?
Are you talking about Ilsoap's Shadow Land Series (Macromedia Flash)?
That's cool, and I agree he rocks; but he's got thousands of individual colors to work with; you blow the house down with 16 colors. I still like Ilsoap's creations, but hey, I bet you'd be able to do some neat stuff with 2 to the 24th power worth of colors.
Still your loyal fan:
-- NAJAWA --
(No offense Ilsoap; you rock too)
BTW - When are you going to do an official Shadowlands Episode 3?
That's cool, and I agree he rocks; but he's got thousands of individual colors to work with; you blow the house down with 16 colors. I still like Ilsoap's creations, but hey, I bet you'd be able to do some neat stuff with 2 to the 24th power worth of colors.
Still your loyal fan:
-- NAJAWA --
(No offense Ilsoap; you rock too)
BTW - When are you going to do an official Shadowlands Episode 3?
hehe
Na'ah, it's okay--my one level mod is months old at this point.
Ilsoap is getting married, actually. Combine that with the fact that he's looking for work in the animation industry, he's one busy fellow. He won't be doing an Episode 3 for a few reasons.
First off, Commander Keen is still copyrighted by ID Software, and can't be used without permission. The animation may look awesome, but it's not exactly legal for him to be using it for anything which would make him money (including a portfolio for getting a job!) He's better off doing work which showcases his originality and talent, so that he can get a job and feed his wife and potential children.
Second, he's got other things he's involved with. Commander Keen is awesome and all, but he's got an actual life to live! He still pokes around here and there to say hi, and we love him for that, but he's slowly moving on. :-)
Ilsoap is getting married, actually. Combine that with the fact that he's looking for work in the animation industry, he's one busy fellow. He won't be doing an Episode 3 for a few reasons.
First off, Commander Keen is still copyrighted by ID Software, and can't be used without permission. The animation may look awesome, but it's not exactly legal for him to be using it for anything which would make him money (including a portfolio for getting a job!) He's better off doing work which showcases his originality and talent, so that he can get a job and feed his wife and potential children.
Second, he's got other things he's involved with. Commander Keen is awesome and all, but he's got an actual life to live! He still pokes around here and there to say hi, and we love him for that, but he's slowly moving on. :-)
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I wonder if a hundred years or so from now, when keen is pretty much forgotten, someone will find one of our mods, and start modding it, believing it was the original game.grelphy wrote:Meh... we should all just stagnate until Keen is remembered like the ancient Egyptian dieties, as a musty old computer game that was once seen by a small group of fanatic fans as the be-all-and-end-all of gaming, whose converts slowly declined until it was forgotten...
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Hmm. What if...
Hmm. What if...
"Gee grandpa, did you really play that anchient game stuff: I mean your 16 colors to our 16,000 bits; you sure had it bad."
Boy, that'd be the day. Graphics in keen really are behind the times, but that doesn't stop us... does it?
If Ilsoap is trying out for an animating job, he really must be very good. Well... i still wish there'd be an episode 4.
BTW - I've thought of an episode four. If anybody cares, I'll start a new post, someware, and give you the scoop. (I wouldn't know where to write my post though; that'd be up to the artistic genius to tell me).
Other wise. Episode 3 out of six become 3 out of 3.
Back on topic though.
Xky: Is this really sort of a demo for your Keen 4 Mod? If it is, I am already impressed, and will take off of school when it arrives (ok, mebey I won't be able to take off school, but it'll be a high priority to play.)
-- NAJAWA --
"Gee grandpa, did you really play that anchient game stuff: I mean your 16 colors to our 16,000 bits; you sure had it bad."
Boy, that'd be the day. Graphics in keen really are behind the times, but that doesn't stop us... does it?
If Ilsoap is trying out for an animating job, he really must be very good. Well... i still wish there'd be an episode 4.
BTW - I've thought of an episode four. If anybody cares, I'll start a new post, someware, and give you the scoop. (I wouldn't know where to write my post though; that'd be up to the artistic genius to tell me).
Other wise. Episode 3 out of six become 3 out of 3.
Back on topic though.
Xky: Is this really sort of a demo for your Keen 4 Mod? If it is, I am already impressed, and will take off of school when it arrives (ok, mebey I won't be able to take off school, but it'll be a high priority to play.)
-- NAJAWA --
more or less
Yes, the 1-level-demo was an experiment in making larger-scale repeating background structures. I need to work on the size of my grass compared to the size of my player, and I need to do some work on spacing, but other than that it's coming along nicely.
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If you wanted to Xky, you could leave the grass. I haven't seen anything of the mod other than this, but you could argue that on this planet, everything is a heck of a lot larger than Earth. And the aliens are bigger. Although that might mean you would have to make some big enemies, which means a heck of a lot of work, and restucturing keen4 levels is no easy task, so perhaps its not such a good idea.
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Was that post really worth making? "Hey, if you wanted, you could do something, but it'd be hard, so maybe not." :-\ That doesn't really contribute anything to the conversation, and is better left unsaid. I don't want to sound mean, but use some restraint instead of mashing the 'post' button so fast. :-) Thanks.
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maybe
Depends on how soon I get things in working order... right now my Keen sprite still needs to fix his climb-up-over-the-edge animation when he's facing right, and I need to do all the shooting-while-on-a-pole frames, and fix the pole-climbing I've got. The only enemy I've got done is the Lick replacement, who works great, except I want to touch up his stunned animation. I've only done beginning work on the backgrounds, and I haven't even THOUGHT about level design yet. :-) Any screenshots I gave you would be... lacking.