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Welcome to the Commander Keen Wiki!

This Wiki is intended to be a complete reference to the Commander Keen series of computer games, detailing everything from gameplay hints to tips for creating your own levels.

If you find anything missing, incomplete or inaccurate among these pages, please fix it! To help prevent spam, you'll need an account before you can start editing pages, but signing up is easy. If this is your first time here, be sure to read the KeenWiki Guidelines before contributing. This site will only become a complete reference if the Keen community dives in and shares their vast knowledge of the games with us all. If you would like to help out but you're not sure where to start, take a look at the list of pages needing more information.

The Games

• Invasion of the Vorticons
  • Keen 1: Marooned on Mars
  • Keen 2: The Earth Explodes
  • Keen 3: Keen Must Die!

• Lost episode
  • Keen Dreams

• Goodbye Galaxy
  • Keen 4: Secret of the Oracle
  • Keen 5: The Armageddon Machine

• Aliens Ate My Babysitter
  • Keen 6: Aliens Ate My Babysitter

• Game Boy Color episode
  • Keen GBC

• All episodes combined
  • List of harmless creatures
  • List of dangerous enemies
  • List of items/points
  • List of places/levels
  • The Keeniverse

• Other games
  • Cameo Appearances

The Mods

This section lists some of the fan-made modifications to the Keen games. The mods range from one level proof-of-concept demos to completely new multi-episode games. Choose a trilogy to see a list of mods made for those episodes.

• Invasion of the Vorticons (Keen 1-3)
• Goodbye Galaxy (Keen 4-6)
• Other (Keen Dreams, non-Keen engines)

Fan-made Games and engines

This section lists some known Keen fan-made games. They range from incredibly great creations to extremely awful games. Some of them are complete, others are in progress; there are those which got abandoned at some point in the past, and game engines that are not strictly bound to a fan-game in particular.

• Full list of fan-made games
  • Completed fan-games
  • In-progress fan-games
  • Abandoned fan-games
• Stand-alone game engines

Tutorials

If you need comprehensive step-by-step tutorials on modding, level editing or running Keen on modern platforms, check out the Tutorials.

The Tools

This section lists the various tools for modifying Keen. As most tools only work for a few of the episodes, this section is organised by trilogy. Information about the various Keen file formats is also listed here, as well as tips and tricks that may help you create your own Keen mod.

• Invasion of the Vorticons (Keen 1-3)
• Goodbye Galaxy (Keen 4-6)
• Other (Keen Dreams, non-Keen engines)

The Fans

• Visit some of the other great Keen Websites
• Join in the discussion on the Public Commander Keen Forum (PCKF)
• Have a chat with fellow modders on the Keen Modding Forum