#ken's labyrinth

[hunterbahamut]

Inspiration can come from weird places. I was watching some old vods from Joel/Vargskelethor and his "Shareware Madness" series. One of he games he played was a shareware version of an old DOS game called "Ken's Labyrinth", created by Ken Silverman. I then caught sight of this fellow right here. It was just a set piece and not a monster or interactive thing or anything, but I guess I was intrigued. So...I wanted to try and do my own interpretation, and this is the end result. No idea who they are, or what the scene could be. Could be an odd experiment in storage, could be up on display for a cruel auction, who can say?

[obscurevideogames]

Ken’s Labyrinth (Advanced Systems - PC - 1993)  

[hardcore-gaming-101]

Ken’s Labyrinth

In its prime, the Build engine was considered nothing short of a technical marvel. While it took some time for developers to realize its true potential, the wait produced nothing short of amazement. The engine programmer Ken Silverman brought forth allowed for games with enough detail to replicate real world locations, larger-than-life characters reacted dynamically to the action around them, and the weapons that only got wilder with every game. Games like Duke Nukem 3D  didn’t spawn in a void, however. While Ken’s Labyrinth itself doesn’t use the Build engine, many of its innovations would be brought into the classics of the genre that did. As the true father of Lo Wang, Caleb, and Duke as we know him now, Ken’s Labyrinth is a weird, wacky game that still deserves examination for sheer oddness alone.

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[retrocgads]

USA 1994

[slipgatetourist]

Les jeux <Doom Like> (Games like Doom - Doom Clones)

You can download the magazine here.

[obscurevideogames]

Ken’s Labyrinth (Advanced Systems - PC - 1993)  

[hydralisk98]

Uta6 Raycaster game (12 shareware 'demo', 36+ CYP content pack...)

Just stating that I will eventually try my hand at customizing the fuller stack (programming my very own utilities and all that jazz) later with deeper programming, but until then enjoy my first raycaster engine-y devlog!

Braindump to insert specific levels and content ideas here (~64x64 tiles, connected pathways like HL1 / Ion Fury?)

a (Helluva Boss Night Park-themed)

b (Axis Victory Occupied German city-themed)

c (Concise Forested Hometown Suburbia-themed)

d (Seventies Aperture Offices-themed)

e (Celestial Jail-themed)

f (Retro Shopping Mall-themed)

u (Abandoned Volkshalle / Prora ministry apparatus greypark-themed)

v (Iron Stars / Heat Death-themed)

w (Bronze Age Collapse-themed)

x (Toymaker Military Fort-themed)

y (Cyberpunk Mainframe Dreamscape-themed)

z (Syndicalist Parliament-themed)

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My own mechanical twists from "Wolfenstein 3D", "Ken's Labyrinth" & "Rise of the Triad"...

Try replacing fighting/shooting mechanics with social dynamics / mechanics like diverse linguistics & skill checks & faction politics (or at least make most agents less antagonistic by default)

Multi-user 'domain' gamemode (focusing towards cooperative play & social modes, perhaps also a MazeWars-like?)

Collect-a-ton or Tinker-a-thon infrastructure repair?

Agent Appearance customization?

Skill Tree?

[saint-casual]

me too dog me too