Commander Keen

Commander Keen is a saga of video games developed by id Software in the early 1990s, which was successful in replicating the action of the games on the NES platform., Super Mario Bros., in MS-DOS. These cartoonish platformers are renowned for their innovative use of EGA graphics and their distribution via the shareware mechanism, and because they were the first games designed by id Software (which would later develop the successful Doom series of games). > and Quake). The games were also successful among PC gamers of the time thanks to the revolutionary smooth scrolling graphics engine developed by John Carmack. Although they were developed by id Software, most of the games in the Commander Keen series were published by Apogee Software, a well-known publisher of shareware games for MS-DOS at the time. Tom Hall is the designer of Commander Keen and the creator of the Keen universe. The main character is Billie Blaze, an eight-year-old genius boy who travels defending humanity.

Episodes

• Marooned on Mars

Year of release: 1990

• The Earth Explodes

Year of release: 1990

• Keen Must Die

Year of release: 1990

• Secret of the Oracle

Year of release: 1991

• The Armageddon Machine

Year of release: 1991

• Aliens Ate my Baby Sitter

Year of release: 1991

• The Lost Episode

Year Released: N/A

Creation and development

Standard Galactic Alphabet

The standard galactic alphabet, also known as "AGE" or "SGA" by its English name, is the writing system used by the aliens in Commander Keen. The player has his first contact with the galactic alphabet in the first Commander Keen game, Marooned on Mars. It is a replacement language created by Tom Hall for the Commander Keen saga. In Keen 1 he designed some images for Exit signs and the language consisted of slightly altering the Latin characters, after which he added other signs indicating "hello"; and "this is order", until it ends up creating conversations and all kinds of alien-looking signs of the Latin alphabet. The standard galactic alphabet appears in Minecraft as part of the enchantment system.