Vanished To Venus

Modded episode	Keen 1
Protagonist	Commander Keen
Author(s)	Benvolio
Status	Complete
Release date	2004-08-30
Homepage	Benvolio's Workbench
Discussion(s)	Keen: Modding
Number of levels	17
Secret levels	1
New gameplay?	No
New graphics?	Yes
New levels?	Yes
New sounds?	No
New music?	No
Download	newest ;
Vote	4.33 (3 votes)
Other mods in this series	Stopping the Skypest, ; Exiting Epsilon

Vanished To Venus, is a Keen 1 mod by Benvolio. It is Benvolio's first Keen mod, created between early 2001 and mid 2004. Many of its levels were created before the release of Andrew Durdin's ModKeen, and the project was adapted to modding only after Modkeen's release. This mod had an unprecedented number of immense levels, many as large as 120x120 tiles in area, and this caused many complaints to be made following the mod's release. However, the size of the levels was part of the mod's conceptual world.

Benvolio simultaneously released this mod, and Stopping the Skypest and Exiting Epsilon in early september 2004 as the Revenge of the Shikadi Trilogy. This multi-mod release from a previously unknown modder was an unprecedented act of publicity in the modding world.

It takes place on the planet Venus, the second closest planet to the sun. The story takes place after all the official Keen games, and is an interpretation of a storyline for Commander Keen created by Benvolio: Revenge Of The Shikadi.

Technical Information

Graphics: custom graphics by Benvolio
Levels: 17 levels
includes a modified score panel, a modified EGA 16-colour pallette, slight use of tileinfo
Tools used (incomplete list): ModKeen 1.0, CKPatch, KeenWright, TileInfo, Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7 and, later, 8.
In accordance with Benvolio's policies of gameplay, there is no patch restricting the GOD or CT-SPACE cheats.

Story

Commander Keen's spaceship, the Bean-With-Bacon Megarocket, is in need of new upgraded parts. Keen travels to Venus where there are new ship parts hidden in dangerous caverns. He must fight both the Shikadi and the vicious native Venusians. Mortimer has ordered that there should be strong protection put on the parts. When Commander Keen has found his four parts, he now recieves a message that Mortimer McMire has built a Destroyer Ship called the Skypest. Keen now must disable it or else Mortimer will destroy the Universe.

Items

Mortimer's Ship Parts: Plasma Ultra Fuel Unit, Laser Control Stick, Vorticon Fuel Storage Centre, Compound Hyperspace Blaster
Ammo for ray pistol: increase Keen's weapon ammo
Keycards: used to open doors
Candy Bar: 100 points
Cola Can: 200 points
Glass of juice: 500 points
Toffee: 1000 points
Crock o' gold: 5000 points