** Keen Dreams ( 1991 )

" Keen Dreams " aka " The Lost Episode " ( published as shareware by Softdisk )

* On August 3, 2007, episodes 1-5 ( excluding " Keen Dreams " and " Aliens Ate My Babysitter ") were rereleased on Steam as part of the id Software game addition to Steam.

However, the developers of id had a contract with Softdisk requiring them to write several more games, one of which became Keen Dreams.

Keen Dreams is sometimes referred to as " Keen 3. 5 ", " Keen 7 ", or the " Lost Episode ", as it was never distributed by Apogee.

Keen Dreams introduces three difficulty levels.

and Aliens Ate My Babysitter !, all the improvements from Keen Dreams are kept, except for the " Flower Power ".

In " Keen Dreams ", Keen will fall asleep instead of reading a book.

Custom arenas have been created for Keen episodes 4, 5, 6, and Dreams.

* Commander Keen: Keen Dreams ( 1992 ), Softdisk

The music for the level, titled Eat Your Veggies and originally composed by Bobby Prince for use in Keen Dreams, is also commonly associated with the Dopefish and has inspired some spin-offs compositions including Fish Polka and Dope Jaws by former 3D Realms Music and Sound Director Lee Jackson.

However, to complete their contractual obligation to Softdisk, they did several more games for them including Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion, Rescue Rover, Hovertank 3D, Rescue Rover 2, Tiles of the Dragon, Catacomb 3D and Keen Dreams ( the " lost " episode of the Commander Keen series ).

BSC later arranged an exchange deal with Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd ( GKN ), the parent company of GKN Steel, under which BSC acquired Dowlais Ironworks at Merthyr Tydfil and GKN took over BSC's Brymbo Steelworks near Wrexham.

As a result, the Id Software team began the development of Commander Keen, a Mario-style side-scrolling game for the PC, once again " borrowing " company computers to work on it at odd hours at the lake house at which they lived in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Shetland has three National Nature Reserves, at the seabird colonies of Hermaness and Noss, and at Keen of Hamar to preserve the serpentine flora.

After fighting through many levels of Vorticon-infested cities and military installations, Keen arrives at the lair of the Grand Intellect.

Tom Hall, Commander Keens creative designer, mentioned that Keen is based on himself at age eight.

Enemies include fictional Martian species Yorps and Gargs ( in episode 1, after which a yorp follows Keen onto his ship, the Bean with Bacon MegaRocket, only to be noticed by Keen when he lands back on Earth, at which point he makes it his pet and calles it Spot ), and Vorticon or Vorticon-related creatures ( in all three episodes ).

* In the " Pyramid of the Moons " level, Keen can gain access to a secret level by gathering inchworms under him at a certain point.

Players of the Keen series that spent the necessary time could figure out SGA by looking at the many signs throughout the games.

Knowing the complete alphabet is necessary for the player to decipher a letter which explains part of the storyline at the end of Keen 5.

There is a curse word hidden at the beginning of Keen 2s " Paris " level, spelled in SGA.

* In Apogee's arch-rival, Epic MegaGames ' Jill of the Jungle, episode 1 includes a news bulletin taking a swipe at Keen, who it claims has been forced into retirement by " those cool Epic heroes ".

* Commander Keen ( Game Boy Color ) at id Software

* Commander Keen: Invasion of the Vorticons at 3D Realms

* A Look Back at Commander Keen at 3D Realms

In 1990, while still at Softdisk, Carmack, Romero, and others created the first of the Commander Keen games, a series which was published by Apogee Software, under the shareware distribution model, from 1991 onwards.

Iachimo was played by Geoffrey Keen, whose father Malcolm had played Jachimo with Ashcroft at the Old Vic in 1932.

Further resuscitation attempts failed, and Washington was pronounced dead at 1: 36 p. m. At Daley Plaza, Richard Keen, project director for the Westside Habitat for Humanity, announced Washington's official time of death to a separate gathering of Chicagoans.

* Actor Geoffrey Keen ( 1916-2005 ) lived in Northwood at the time of his death

The history of the lands of Cheswick seems to have belonged to the Keen family at least in part, for Archie Pillow, or Pillar, as spelled in old records, inherited land from the Keen family.

* In the id Software game Commander Keen, Keen explores Mars in the first episode and keeps a Martian pet for the remainder of the series.

Commander Keen is a series of video games developed by id Software in the early 1990s.

Although developed by id, most of the Commander Keen games were published by Apogee Software, an already established DOS shareware game publisher.

John Romero was later contacted by Scott Miller of Apogee, who, after seeing some of id's work, advanced the team $ 2, 000 for the development of Commander Keen, starting a profitable business relationship that would last until id Software self-published Doom.

Carmack was the lead programmer of the id computer games Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, Rage and their sequels.

He wrote many of the tools used at id Software to create their games, including DoomEd ( level editor ), QuakeEd ( level editor ), DM ( for deathmatch launching ), DWANGO client ( to connect the game to DWANGO's servers ), TED5 ( level editor for the Commander Keen series, Wolfenstein 3D and Spear of Destiny ), IGRAB ( for grabbing assets and putting them in WAD files ), the installers for all the games up to and including Quake, the SETUP program used to configure the games, and several others.

* Dangerous Dave in Copyright Infringement, 1990, DOS, EGA, non-published ( the demo that launched Commander Keen and id Software )

Commander Keen is the main character in a series of computer games developed by id Software in the early 1990s, which were successful at replicating the side-scrolling action of the NES Super Mario Bros. games in DOS.

The first instance of the " No-Clip " code probably came from id Software's popular game series, Commander Keen.

As a side note, it was at this time that Miller contacted key members at Softdisk ( a monthly software magazine delivered on floppy disks to subscribers ) who later formed id Software, and convinced them to make Commander Keen as a shareware game to be released through Apogee, which proved to be an outstanding success, and led id Software to become an independent studio.

For music and sound effects, id Software hired Bobby Prince who had previously scored Wolfenstein 3D and worked on the Commander Keen games.