Vorticon Tools

Contents 1 Game Editing 1.1 Level Editors 1.2 Graphics Editors 1.3 Sound Editors 1.4 Music Editors 1.5 Story / Game Text Editors 1.6 Other editors and editing tools 2 Modding Tutorials 3 Game Information 4 See Also

Game Editing

This section is organised by category. If an editor supports more than one type of editing, such as level editing and graphics editing, it will be listed under both sections.

Level Editors

• KeenEdit
• KeenWright
• iKeen
• Keen MakeOver
• Mindbelt

Graphics Editors

• EModKeen/LModKeen
• ModKeen/ModLatch
• Keengraph

Sound Editors

• KeenFX
• KeenWave also exports sounds as bitmaps/wave files

Music Editors

• TSMusic allows Vorticons mods to have IMF music works with:
• AdPlug – standalone DOS program and a Winamp/XMMS plugin for playing Keen's IMF music.
• IMF2MIDI – program to convert IMF songs into MIDI files.
• DRO2MIDI – improved program based on IMF2MIDI.
• DRO2IMF – program to convert DRO files to IMF files.

Story / Game Text Editors

• Fin2Bmp now outdated thanks to graphics editors
• Startext for making text patches

Other editors and editing tools

• CKPatch
• TileInfo Used to edit tile properties
• Dr. Kylstein's Tileset Editor Used to edit tile properties and make tilesets for the Vorticons 2 patch
• The Neural Stunner
• The Patchotron
• UNLZEXE, needed to decompress the executable files
• UNP, needed to decompress the executable files

Modding Tutorials

• Xky's Checklist for Beginning Modders (Vorticons)

Game Information

• For details on the file formats used by the games, see the Commander Keen 1–3 section on the ModdingWiki.
• There is a list of patches that can be incorporated into mods to change the game's behavior.

See Also

• Galaxy Tools
• Other Tools (non-Vorticons/Galaxy)