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Comment on NEW KICKSTARTER: SPIRITUAL SUCCESSOR TO KEEN + TOOL! by Liberale

Liberale — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 23:11:17 +0000

Thank you for Keen Tom!

Comment on NEW KICKSTARTER: SPIRITUAL SUCCESSOR TO KEEN + TOOL! by ThatTomHall

ThatTomHall — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 16:53:56 +0000

Thanks for the nice words!

Don’t have the rights to Keen, and Zenimax won’t sell them.

Tip: just make games! I made 50 little games before I got in the industry. Find a small team of friends and make one, or make one yourself. Start with a board game / paper game so you have no barriers to starting and finishing. Then get a team and make a little game. Like a one-screen game, that is small, so you can FINISH it. That’s the hardest part — getting it to the finish line.

Comment on NEW KICKSTARTER: SPIRITUAL SUCCESSOR TO KEEN + TOOL! by willdavies1995

willdavies1995 — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:35:06 +0000

Hi there.

I am a huge fan of your amazing work with commander keen! Although the series came out a couple of years before i was born, i spent my entire childhood playing it! I think each Commander Keen is outstanding, but i don’t quite think any of them can beat number 4.

I am hoping to be a games developer myself. I know you mention a follow up to commander keen, which also looks good! But i was just wondering why you don’t carry on with the outstanding series? It was such a brilliant game and was probably one of the main aspects that make me want to be a games designer. I also wondered if you have any good tips on becoming one

Thanks

Comment on NEW KICKSTARTER: SPIRITUAL SUCCESSOR TO KEEN + TOOL! by whgarcia

whgarcia — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:47:52 +0000

Ooh quite the interesting route and take on gaming!

Comment on NEW KICKSTARTER: SPIRITUAL SUCCESSOR TO KEEN + TOOL! by Jorpho

Jorpho — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:11:11 +0000

Interesting, interesting… except there are no reward tiers between $5 and $30.

(Seems like the perfect spot to throw in a digital download of Hyperspace Delivery Boy. Oh well, next time.)

Comment on NEW KICKSTARTER: SPIRITUAL SUCCESSOR TO KEEN + TOOL! by Kyle

Kyle — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 05:25:44 +0000

Got to admit the art style sort of threw me away, but after watching what you could do with it I think that this will be much better than the level editor on Super Meat Boy, which was a shame I was ready to do some awesome stuff with it, but it looks like this editor is not going to crash and erase all 40hrs of my work.

No wonder that game still feel like a beta…

The alternate space art looks cool, and I cannot wait to get my copy.

Well it looks like you are taking a good step Tom, I just hope that the community can pull together and get this one funded

Comment on Tom’s Games by zjp

zjp — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 18:34:30 +0000

I guess I really just wanted to say thanks. And Bleep, bleep.

Comment on Tom’s Games by zjp

zjp — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 18:27:32 +0000

Going through your list, I noticed Terminal Velocity. I knew about your Softdisk and ID days, but didn’t realize you were in the ROT and TV projects.

Rocket Jumping in ROT and killing endless hours in TV while I was in the boondocks, the game gave my brothers and I something to do and a way to chase each other around constantly all from the comfort of my computer warmed room.

Comment on Old School RPG is Staff Pick of the Day on Kickstarter! by qishmish

qishmish — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:47:50 +0000

the more millions games do have the more industry is dying.

Remember late 90s? Grand EEE (E3) things that were HUGE events, enormous number of announced projects that everyone was waiting for – and what now? 2013 – Bioshock 3 and The last of us?

Or those PC games boxes with huge manuals and other things – it was NOT “a collector edition” in those days!

Comment on Old School RPG is Staff Pick of the Day on Kickstarter! by qishmish

qishmish — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 18:05:53 +0000

Hello, Tom! You said that you can give us Anachronox 2 as BOOK. Story, text. Is that still possible?)