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The KD engine has seen a surprising number of games on it.
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It would be good if the Keen Dreams source code was available as it would be interesting to see the transition from the vorticon engine to galaxy engine.

Which other games are based on the Keen Dreams engine?
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AST wrote:Which other games are based on the Keen Dreams engine?
want to know the answer to the same question!
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Rescue Rover 2 and Dangerous Dave 2.
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There's a Rescue Rover 2? :eek

More relevantly to the code being released, what games are based off the Vorticons and Galaxy code besides Keen?
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There might be a list. So there's Dangerous Dave 3 and 4 also using the Dreams engine. Bio Menace and ScubaVenture are using the Galaxy engine. Shadow Knights might use the Vorticons engine but I'm not sure about this.
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AST wrote:It would be good if the Keen Dreams source code was available as it would be interesting to see the transition from the vorticon engine to galaxy engine.

Which other games are based on the Keen Dreams engine?
Keen Vorticons: Slordax (Not KV, but very similar in construction.) Shadow Knights Dangerous Dave 2.

Keen Dreams: Dave 3, Dave 4, Rescue Rover 2

Keen Galaxy: Biomenace, Catacomb 3D (Large portions of code) ScubaVenture


Interestingly Dave 3 and 4 successfully implement soundblaster sounds into a Keen Galaxy like environment.
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I thought ScubaVenture was based on Monster Bash. Does this mean Monster Bash is based on Commander Keen?
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Keening_Product wrote:
wiivn wrote:On the yellow floppy disk is written "Keen Dreams". But anyway, I care more about the Galaxy and the Vorticons sources anyway. Also, I would not be surprised if after John publish Dangerous Dave for the phones, put Keen 1 next.
I asked and Romero said the three non-Alfredo disks were not source, however:
sponge on IRC wrote:there was an interesting test game though, i forget the name but it was pacman in the keen dreams engine. it was a demo game
^Could be that. Maybe. Possibly.
the pacman game is called Wac-Man.
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Calvero wrote:I thought ScubaVenture was based on Monster Bash. Does this mean Monster Bash is based on Commander Keen?
It was, and no it's not.
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Figure I'd update since someone will just paste my irc quotes anyway, that I just got the 1-3 sources. No clue what state is in, but I'll probably just see if it builds, do whatever cleanup/prep is necessary, and just include that with the 4-6 (or possibly only 4-5) sources
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Whoo!
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No you fool! The 1-3 sources are the last components Lemm needs for his ascension! you'll doom us all!
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Levellass wrote:No you fool! The 1-3 sources are the last components Lemm needs for his ascension! you'll doom us all!
*slams his hand into the palmprint in the controls before he is expelled to the surface of Mars, where he struggles to breathe and--*

Oh wait, wrong idea.

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