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Welcome to Commander Genius
Commander Genius, also known as CloneKeen Plus, is an engine which interprets the Commander Keen Invasion of the Vorticons series. As fans and developers, we try to implement new features, improve the gameplay, and give players an experience that feels like playing the original game. You will also need the original game files in addition to Commander Genius. Commander Keen: Marooned on Mars is shareware and may be freely, and legally downloaded elsewhere. Commander Keen: The Earth Explodes and Commander Keen: Keen Must Die! are registered versions which can be purchased from 3D Realms, Apogee, or purchased from someone willing to sell you their copy. If you still have these old games, then give Commander Genius a try! You will be surprised at how good they look and how much fun they are to play!
The Commander Genius Team
These are the people who made all this magic possible.
- Developer, website originator, and project manager: Gerhard Wolfgang Stein (aka Gerstrong)
- Developer and port to GP2X: Scott Smith (aka Pickle)
- Developer and tester: Albert Zeyer
- Developer, tester and forum: Pizza2004
- Developer, resource administrator and main tester: Tulip
- Composer of high quality music and tester: DaVince
- Developer and port to Dingux: Zear
- Developer, website developer, and tester: Casey (aka FCTW)
- Researching: Lemm
- Ports to Google Android: Pelya
- Developer and tester: Commander Spleen
- Original developer of CloneKeen: Caitlin Shaw
Credits and special thanks to people who help us a lot:
- James K. Beard
- Ceilick
- Sciz CT
- Iv4n
- ThunderPX
- Mink
- CKeen
- TheHackerCat
- NY00123
- Malvineos
- Lemm
- Chrisfischtopher
- Hans de Goede
- Levelass
- ZidaneA
- DSL (Cool Icon design)
- Napalm (Information about PC-Speaker sound)
- ...and many more we might have forgotten to mention.
NOTE: We are currently looking for fans of Commander Keen, developers, or artists who are interested in helping us. If someone wants to make a better interpreter for the Invasion of the Vorticons Series (Also Galaxy series, Dreams, and mods) they are more than welcome to help us. Just drop our project leader an Email at: gerstrong@gmail.com
We also have an IRC Channel. #CommanderGenius at irc.foonetic.net
Goodbye Galaxy and Keen Dreams support
We are working hard on the Commander Genius support for the Goodbye Galaxy series, Keen Dreams, and also mods like Keen 7-9.
Every update brings new features and more support. We try to do a version update once per month, so you can be sure you always have the newest, coolest features.
Not just Windows, Linux, and Mac but other platforms are supported as well, and more will be supported in the future!
Invasion of the Vorticons support
This series is mostly bug free, and the physics are very accurate. If you want to experience Commander Keen Invasion of the Vorticons with some improvements yet classic gameplay, Commander Genius is the program you want!
Features
- 4 Player Mode
- Fully customizable button layout
- Graphic Scalers
- OpenGL Support
- Improved CloneKeen engine. Only small bits of it are left
- 3 difficulty modes in all the Commander Keen games
- Mod support
- Automatic extraction of data (sounds, story, etc.) from the exe-files
- In-game Music support (Yes, music in the Invasion of the Vorticons series! And don't just trust us, it's sweet!)
- New graphical effects
- Much faster performance, because there is no emulation
- HUD in Invasion of the Vorticons
- High Quality Pack graphics and sound support
- and much more...
Check it out today, it's free!
>> Go to the download page here!!
The right hand image that you see is Commander Keen in a dark room when playing the game normally under DOS (or for example DOS-Box). To the left you see the room using Commander Genius. Quite the difference, huh?! The darkness depends on the difficulty, so watch your step. ;-)