Commander Keen in: Surfing the Galactic Web
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Commander Keen in: Surfing the Galactic Web
This is a Keen5 mod underway by yours truly, here-fore referred to as "Keenweb".
Basically, Keen creates another one of his trademark ground-breaking inventions: the Electrochemical-to-electromagnetic Data Compression and Transmission Chamber. (Feel free to suggest a new name after I tell you what it does.)
This device allows Keen to convert any object (or person) into an electrical pattern, which is compressed and beamed into space to be decompressed and reconstructed at an identical chamber. Based on technology and software he "borrowed" from the teleporters he found on the Omegamatic, it is intended for quick teleportations between common Keenish travel sites (such as Mars, Gnosticus IV, Vorticon VI, the Burger King down the street, and so on).
What happens: After planting the devices with his trusty Bean-with-Bacon megarocket, Keen powers up the machine and sets the control knob to "human". After aiming it at Gnosticus IV, he pushes some final buttons and dabbles some final switches before stepping inside. But - OH NO! Just as he is transferred to binary data and beamed out of Earth's atmosphere, the Keen-Beam is bounced off of a communications satellite and out into the void!! With no targets in that direction, it seems little Billy is doomed... until the beam he's riding is absorbed by an antenna on an alien space station...
Keen awakes with his trusty Neural Stunner, Pogo Stick, and Packers helmet. Looking down, he notices that he is in human form again! He draws on his 314-IQ intelligence and surmises that he must have not been original in his idea for the EDCTC, and there is a galaxy full of similar alien devices, all bound together in a single network!
The network will be the world map, complete with arcs of energy and so on. The map will take Keen on a faster-than-light journey as he hops between solar systems in an attempt to get home.
Comments? Reviews? Brutally mean criticism? Express it here! (Although I was kidding about that last one)
Basically, Keen creates another one of his trademark ground-breaking inventions: the Electrochemical-to-electromagnetic Data Compression and Transmission Chamber. (Feel free to suggest a new name after I tell you what it does.)
This device allows Keen to convert any object (or person) into an electrical pattern, which is compressed and beamed into space to be decompressed and reconstructed at an identical chamber. Based on technology and software he "borrowed" from the teleporters he found on the Omegamatic, it is intended for quick teleportations between common Keenish travel sites (such as Mars, Gnosticus IV, Vorticon VI, the Burger King down the street, and so on).
What happens: After planting the devices with his trusty Bean-with-Bacon megarocket, Keen powers up the machine and sets the control knob to "human". After aiming it at Gnosticus IV, he pushes some final buttons and dabbles some final switches before stepping inside. But - OH NO! Just as he is transferred to binary data and beamed out of Earth's atmosphere, the Keen-Beam is bounced off of a communications satellite and out into the void!! With no targets in that direction, it seems little Billy is doomed... until the beam he's riding is absorbed by an antenna on an alien space station...
Keen awakes with his trusty Neural Stunner, Pogo Stick, and Packers helmet. Looking down, he notices that he is in human form again! He draws on his 314-IQ intelligence and surmises that he must have not been original in his idea for the EDCTC, and there is a galaxy full of similar alien devices, all bound together in a single network!
The network will be the world map, complete with arcs of energy and so on. The map will take Keen on a faster-than-light journey as he hops between solar systems in an attempt to get home.
Comments? Reviews? Brutally mean criticism? Express it here! (Although I was kidding about that last one)
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All right, this will be the final thread for KeenWeb. (Although that name probably will be changed more, KeenWeb is just a moniker I use because it's short)
I need to recruit a crew for this. Namely, people to handle music (Probably either Mr. M or Z; I am a composer as well, but I don't know what to use for Adlib tracks), tilesets, and help with patching. Because THIS kid needs as much help as possible in that area.
So to sum up, there are 3-4 jobs open, and there could be many working on the same job.
ALSO: I'm going to be working on it too, I just need HELP. Galaxy modding is a big endeavour, as you all know.
I need to recruit a crew for this. Namely, people to handle music (Probably either Mr. M or Z; I am a composer as well, but I don't know what to use for Adlib tracks), tilesets, and help with patching. Because THIS kid needs as much help as possible in that area.
So to sum up, there are 3-4 jobs open, and there could be many working on the same job.
ALSO: I'm going to be working on it too, I just need HELP. Galaxy modding is a big endeavour, as you all know.
Things I am good at:
* Patching
Things I can do.
* Tiles, sprites and artwork
Things I should not be allowed within 500 miles of:
* Everything else
As for the EDCTC, shouldn't that be the ECEMDCTC? Other names I can think of ATM are
* DIGDED (DIGitizer-DEDigitizer, named the same way as the MODEM.)
* MIID (Matter/Information Interconversion Device)
* OTIMT (Object Teleportation by Inormation\Matter Transformation, named the same way as the LASER.)
* Patching
Things I can do.
* Tiles, sprites and artwork
Things I should not be allowed within 500 miles of:
* Everything else
As for the EDCTC, shouldn't that be the ECEMDCTC? Other names I can think of ATM are
* DIGDED (DIGitizer-DEDigitizer, named the same way as the MODEM.)
* MIID (Matter/Information Interconversion Device)
* OTIMT (Object Teleportation by Inormation\Matter Transformation, named the same way as the LASER.)
I don't know why, but that's the funniest thing I've read all day.Patience. The secret of the long life.
What you really need, not what you think you ought to want.
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I sure hope y'all are watching this topic, otherwise I'm going to have to hunt you down the long way. >:
So here's my first publish-able version of the mod: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5492365/Keenweb.zip
The good thing is, that link should never expire because it's a Dropbox destination. I'll just change the files INSIDE the zip, and repost the link just to make sure. We'll see though, I have a bad reputation with Keen modding already; someone had to tell me to use %maphead..
Here's the thing, though: I haven't done any new levels. I'm GOING to do levels, but somebody else is doing a tileset, so I'm not sure... Anyway, it's all I've got so far, and I WILL be updating it. That link should always be valid. Be sure to tell me if it ain't!
-Ray, aka thehackercat
So here's my first publish-able version of the mod: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5492365/Keenweb.zip
The good thing is, that link should never expire because it's a Dropbox destination. I'll just change the files INSIDE the zip, and repost the link just to make sure. We'll see though, I have a bad reputation with Keen modding already; someone had to tell me to use %maphead..
Here's the thing, though: I haven't done any new levels. I'm GOING to do levels, but somebody else is doing a tileset, so I'm not sure... Anyway, it's all I've got so far, and I WILL be updating it. That link should always be valid. Be sure to tell me if it ain't!
-Ray, aka thehackercat
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