Commander Keen replacement

[Woolie Wool]

Who thought of using Mewse's avatar as the replacement for the noosed Commander Keen and what is the joke that inspired the sprite artist use Mewse's fish avatar?

[læmænt]

SO LONG AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH

[Jon]

The sprite replacement was made to be a fish like mewse's because the original keen was a tongue-in-cheek tip of the hat to id software's older game, commander keen. In the same way, the fish is a tip of the hat to some of the people who have worked on freedoom, and in a larger sense the doomworld forum, which sort of adopted the fish idea.

And mewse has a fish because it was like a sort of form of identity amongst a group of friends which spiralled out of control a bit.

[fraggle]

I made the sprite. Sorry about the crappy animation :)

[Fletcher`]

mmmh.. we want dopefish (oh wait, no; copyright infringment iforgot)

[Woolie Wool]

We could replace that Caco thing that looks like a squid and howls like a coyote with Hissy. :P

[Captain Red]

SO LONG AND-

lament already said:
SO LONG AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH

oh. :(

[Kinsie]

I'm working on Keen replacement sounds right... now.

EDIT: Done, the new sounds are excerts from the Post Hell music (I forget the name, but I hope and pray no-one holds the copyright)

[myk]

Hissy would make a better "keen." It's more well-known and goes in line with the original idea of a cute thing in the middle of the game. It's true that Hissy already appears in skulltag, but so what. Also it's an indirect reference to DOOM.

[boris]

I'm pretty sure that it is copyrighted.

[Kinsie]

I thought it's like public domain. Ah, well. I'll do some strange squeals tomorrow.