does anyone wish for a new Commander Keen game?

[Wulfgar]

This game started it all for Id Software.

[ApostolZaRodinu]

I wish! the last time i heard Tom Hall himself was very excited about making the new keen. he wants to make a moddable keen with powerful editor, so people could enjoy not only playing the new keen, but also edit it and construct new stuff, sorta like portal 2. great idea. don't know what's happening right now to new commander keen, must go and check, cause i haven't for like 10 months. yeah and btw if someone wants more keen there are a lot of community made campaings. they are like fully playable chapters in commander keen saga. id must also bring keen character into doom 4, that would be cool for old time's sake.

[profile name]

Yes, he made a Kickstarter for his Keen successor, but it failed. I contacted Zenimax about possibly buying the other keen games, but they haven't replied yet.

[Zaphod]

Hmm new a Commander Keen??? Hmm, I dont know, ok, why not, but NOTHING ♥♥♥♥ like Keen Dreams!

[SportyHeadShot]

meh I thought keen dreams was pretty good, weird and differen but pretty good

MWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHT!? theres a new keen game!!!!!!! we finally get an ending?!?

[Crater Labs]

I'd definitely love to see an end to the Commander Keen series. I've felt deprived for decades. I... yep, doing the math now it seems that the word "decades" checks out.

[LifesPlayer]

This has downloads of shareware/demo version of Keen plus some fan made episodes:
http://dosomegames.com/GamePages/CommanderKeen.html

There is also NetKeen which allows multiplayer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJcFV7jKj5k

[Wulfgar]

That sounds cool. :)

[sabrefan84]

According to Era Game reviews on Youtube, there were some unofficial releases. These are basically modified versions of 4, 5, and 6. Episodes 7, 8, and 9 are known as "The Universe is Toast". Of course, these are fan-made, but it's worth checking out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhCyt5WIs5g Commander Keen episodes 1-3 video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=006KsEIBdPw Commander Keen episodes 4-5 video

[s4sutler100]

would be nice

[SportyHeadShot]

I would love to see keen come back to PC

[VolteVaris]

Eh, might be worth a quick shot in the dark. Make a quick tech demo to see appeal for it. Don't toss a whole AAA game budget down on it; The game should look like a cartoon and should be intended with kids in mind.

[Dark Redshift]

Originally posted by SAraisvanu:

The game should look like a cartoon and should be intended with kids in mind.

Well. only by 1990's standards ala the original keens, the Dreamcast Sonics, Wolfenstein 3D, Pathways into Darkness and the original Doom games.

I was thinking the new Keen games could be 3D platformers done in the style of Commander Keen meets Super Mario 64. Seen as how the original sextology (is that the right word?) was inspired by Super Mario Bros 1 2* and 3 and World.

*The real Mario 2 mind you i.e. the Lost Levels. Mario 2 USA i.e. that crappy ROM hack of the good game, Dream Factory Doki Doki Panic would be the equivalent of Keen Dreams.

[Volnaiskra]

Well, this isn't quite a new Commander Keen game, but my game Spryke was HEAVILY inspired by Commander Keen 4.

I was obsessed with this game when I was a kid. When I was about 13 I won a prize from a shareware magazine for the long, exhaustive article I sent them outlining all the different secrets in Commander Keen 4 :D

With Spryke, I specially chose to use the same perspective type for the platforms as Commander Keen 4. This perspective isn't common anymore in modern platformers, but allows for those cool CK4-style secrets by hiding one side of the platforms (so you can walk into tunnels whose entrances aren't visible). I've included exactly these sorts of secrets in Spryke.

My love affair with CK4 didn't end in childhood either. Here's a winamp skin I made in my 20s that celebrated the game: http://stillwater--.deviantart.com/art/Commander-Keen-4-11637173

And I've now spent the past 3 years working on a platformer that's very much inspired by the Commander Keen games: the cartoonishness, the secrets, the colorful quirkiness. It's even got its own scifi alphabet, which is another idea I borrowed from the Keen games! Spryke also takes its inspiration from elsewhere (eg. Super Meat Boy), but Commander Keen blood definitely runs through it too.

Spryke's on kickstarter at the moment. For those of you who miss the fun, quirky colourful 90s platformers, I hope you'll consider supporting my 21st century reimagining of the genre:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/volnaiskra/spryke-an-immersive-meticulously-crafted-platforme

Cheers :)
Volnaiskra

[Wulfgar]

Originally posted by Volnaiskra:

Well, this isn't quite a new Commander Keen game, but my game Spryke was HEAVILY inspired by Commander Keen 4.

I was obsessed with this game when I was a kid. When I was about 13 I won a prize from a shareware magazine for the long, exhaustive article I sent them outlining all the different secrets in Commander Keen 4 :D

With Spryke, I specially chose to use the same perspective type for the platforms as Commander Keen 4. This perspective isn't common anymore in modern platformers, but allows for those cool CK4-style secrets by hiding one side of the platforms (so you can walk into tunnels whose entrances aren't visible). I've included exactly these sorts of secrets in Spryke.

My love affair with CK4 didn't end in childhood either. Here's a winamp skin I made in my 20s that celebrated the game: http://stillwater--.deviantart.com/art/Commander-Keen-4-11637173

And I've now spent the past 3 years working on a platformer that's very much inspired by the Commander Keen games: the cartoonishness, the secrets, the colorful quirkiness. It's even got its own scifi alphabet, which is another idea I borrowed from the Keen games! Spryke also takes its inspiration from elsewhere (eg. Super Meat Boy), but Commander Keen blood definitely runs through it too.

Spryke's on kickstarter at the moment. For those of you who miss the fun, quirky colourful 90s platformers, I hope you'll consider supporting my 21st century reimagining of the genre:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/volnaiskra/spryke-an-immersive-meticulously-crafted-platforme

Cheers :)
Volnaiskra

Sounds awesome! I've have a look at it :3

[Tibbi🦄]

And on the Nintedno Switch. Be cool if they could port the old ones to the switch.