Commander Keen Documentary

A.K. · 01-26-2002, 03:59 AM

...well, more of a "mockumentary", detailing the exciting life and times of young Billy Blaze, whose celebrity status brought about his tragic downfall...

http://chasm.bravepages.com/downfall.htm

WARNING: Contains slanderous misrepresentations of your favourite computer game heroes, irreverent caricatures of id Software people, and overall is the "Evil Twin" of the Commander Keen tribute that can be found on the 3D Realms website. Sounds like fun, eh? Enter at thine own peril!

Scotty · 01-26-2002, 01:08 PM

I saw it before it went offline. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

I just put my browser offline, paged through it, saved each page as an IE web archive, then put all 14 .mht files in a single .zip. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

3.14 megs. [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img]

A.K. · 01-26-2002, 10:28 PM

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3.14 megs.

!!!

It is as if it was... meant to be...

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I would put it on another server as well, but sadly, I had to delete many of the images from my HD after I uploaded them to Bravenet. Maybe someday when people stop visiting that page I'll download everything and put it somewhere useful. [img]graemlins/hhg.gif[/img]

MrEricSir · 01-26-2002, 10:37 PM

Notice that the page says that the 20mb transfer limit was exceeded, but the page's title states that the 35mb transfer limit was breached. Oops!

nyne · 01-27-2002, 12:08 AM

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20 Meg Limit Exceeded!

This site has exceeded its limit of 20 MB of transfer per day. The account can be upgraded to a paid account to increase the transfer limit to 3 Gigs of transfer per month in your bravepages.com user tools section.

DOH! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

Frenkel · 01-27-2002, 12:10 AM

[img]images/icons/confused.gif[/img] Link says you exceded the 20 mb limit.

01-27-2002, 05:59 PM

I got to see it before it went offline, though I never got to save it [img]images/icons/frown.gif[/img] I'll do that next time around.

A.K. · 01-28-2002, 04:46 AM

Ah... could anyone recommend a free web hosting company (for the Commander Keen Doco) that is NOT one of the following?:-

Freeservers.com - Every time you try to access pictures you've uploaded to that webhoster, it says you can't because they're externally linked and not hosted by their own gollygoshdarn site! [img]images/icons/mad.gif[/img] Bastards!!!! Waste MY time, would they? iwillkillthemintheirsleep...

150m.com

F2S (Freedom2Surf)

Liquid2K, and any others than rely on FTP

Lycos, Angelfire, Tripod

Doteasy.com - the hosting is free, but the Other Stuff ain't

Geocities.com (BOOOO! YAH! HISS! HURL ROTTEN FRUIT!)

Netomia, Bravenet (already got one of each)
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It doesn't have to be a big-space server, 4 megs will cover it nicely.

Joe Siegler · 01-28-2002, 01:28 PM

AK, I saw this earlier this morning. I knew this would happen - this thing is ****ing awesome!

I want to stick it on the 3DR site, if you get a chance, zip up all the pages and graphics, and email 'em to me at [email protected].

I'll take care of the rest.

Joe Siegler · 01-28-2002, 01:43 PM

Nevermind, it opened up again. I nabbed the entire thing to my hard drive. I'll get this up on the 3DR site in the fan section in the next couple of days.

A.K. · 01-28-2002, 07:53 PM

Thanks Joe, you've saved the day! [img]graemlins/dopefish.gif[/img]

Joe Siegler · 01-29-2002, 06:13 PM

Yesterday we were made aware of one of the best fan things ever created for one of our games. It's the life story of Commander Keen done in the style of A&E's Biography, or E!'s True Hollywood Story. It's called "Commander Keen: 10 years on". It was done by a fan named Andrew (don't know his last name). It's quite awesome, and includes several pices of original art, and has a fictional history of Billy Blaze (aka Commander Keen). Don't know how else to intro it, so just go and check it out. If you're a fan of Keen, and old Apogee games, then you will most definitely enjoy this!

Also, while you're at it, check out our "real life" Keen 10 year retrospective, published last year. This tells the real life story of the creation of Keen with input from the original id team responsible for bringing the game to life.

Brick_Sledge · 01-29-2002, 07:29 PM

OMG [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img]

That has to be one of the best things I've ever seen on the Internet!!! [img]graemlins/dopefish.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/dopefish.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/dopefish.gif[/img]

revenant100 · 01-29-2002, 07:54 PM

LOL! That's the best! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

nyne · 01-29-2002, 08:34 PM

The truth is revealed!!!! [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]

A.K. · 01-29-2002, 09:39 PM

The response to "CK:10 Years On" has been... astounding. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
My only question now is, "How can I top that ?"

(Snobby voice) All I ask is that when I become a rich & famous documentary producer, you don't come smashing my gates down with a battering ram... Or else "My Pretties" will get you. [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

Joe Siegler · 01-30-2002, 12:46 AM

What can I say? This thing was totally awesome - I'm glad to host it on our servers. Something this good deserved to be seen. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

ADM · 01-30-2002, 03:29 AM

Wow! That is really cool! Someone really has to make one for the Duke games [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] *hint hint AK* [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]

A.K. · 01-30-2002, 04:12 AM

Heh... Not me, Doomed Marine, I'm no expert on Duke Nukem - I haven't played anything beyond the first Duke 3D. I just don't have the sense of direction to survive for very long in 1st person shooters, so I lost interest in DN when all those DN 3D games came along. [img]images/icons/frown.gif[/img]

[BTW, I made my own cameo appearance in the crowd scene (above)! The mullet-man (because I had a mullet in December 2000) with glasses and video camera. [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] ]

Tjals · 01-30-2002, 03:13 PM

ROFL!

Brilliant!

Joe Siegler · 01-30-2002, 05:01 PM

FYI, I had 1,665 pageviews off the documentary just yesterday, and I didn't get it online till about 6PM, which means those figures are only for about 6 hours.

MrEricSir · 01-30-2002, 11:02 PM

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Originally posted by Joe3DR:
FYI, I had 1,665 pageviews off the documentary just yesterday, and I didn't get it online till about 6PM, which means those figures are only for about 6 hours.

Sorry, I just liked it so much I just kept reading it over and over. I think it was 1,667 times, though, so your logs must be wrong.

A.K. · 01-30-2002, 11:45 PM

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FYI, I had 1,665 pageviews off the documentary just yesterday, and I didn't get it online till about 6PM, which means those figures are only for about 6 hours.

HOLY... something! [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]
Last year it took me about 10 months just to get that number on my regularly scheduled web-comic's hit counter.
Six hours... (shakes head in disbelief)

BTW - My hit counter has been given a tiny (but noticeable) boost thanks to the link I planted in CK10YO. Heh heh. Nothing wrong with a bit of shameless self-promotion, eh?

In fact... maybe I should do a Duke Nukem doco after all... YES! I just had a brilliant idea for my next fan comic!!!!!!! (A seven-exclamation mark idea!) But what could it be?
You'll find out W. I. D.!

[img]graemlins/hhg.gif[/img]

Flaose · 01-31-2002, 12:08 AM

Sweet! A mullet!

It's not just Duke, but Max too!

ADM · 01-31-2002, 02:39 AM

Yay! I can't wait to see a Duke doco from you [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img] You really have to give me a mention though ;P hehe jk

adurdin · 01-31-2002, 05:32 AM

Joe, A.K.'s name is Andrew Kepple (as he has it in the credits) -- so you can update the front page if you want.

ardo123 · 01-31-2002, 09:27 AM

lol, that thing is hilarious! and the pictures are just awesome!!! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] Did you draw all those? or did some1 else?

Joe Siegler · 01-31-2002, 11:57 AM

I had an additional 5,785 pageviews on this yesterday. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

Redlof · 01-31-2002, 02:58 PM

I just love this picture. It's so insane.

MrEricSir · 01-31-2002, 03:48 PM

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Originally posted by Redlof:

I just love this picture. It's so insane.

The maniac mushroom was a nice touch.

Uncle Duke · 01-31-2002, 03:53 PM

Tears of joy . . . I'll reply for real later . . . *sobs*

A.K. · 01-31-2002, 08:36 PM

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lol, that thing is hilarious! and the pictures are just awesome!!! Did you draw all those? or did some1 else?

Hey... just coz I'm a fan of classic EGA platform games doesn't mean I can't have some artistic ability! [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

Quote:

I had an additional 5,785 pageviews on this yesterday.

There must be some mistake - not that I doubt the word of Joe Siegler himself, but... there MUST be some mistake...
How could...

?

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Tears of joy . . . I'll reply for real later . . . *sobs*

Me too, Uncle Duke; me too.
[img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

Draco · 02-01-2002, 12:33 AM

I must say, very funny. I like the Old Guy Dopefish [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

ardo123 · 02-01-2002, 12:44 AM

Just think in the future: "Commander Keen LIVES! Another 10 year retrospective"

"Commander Keen is now 26, over this much you think he would at least be a General by now! Jeeze!"
lol, i dont think it would actually happen... [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]

A.K. · 02-01-2002, 03:30 AM

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Of course, nothing ever "happens". You have to do it all yourself.

[img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

Joe Siegler · 02-01-2002, 01:47 PM

The big rush appears to have died down. Only 1,787 yesterday. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

The Flying Fish · 02-01-2002, 04:21 PM

This gets TFF's "Dopefish Seal of Fnordness": [img]graemlins/dopefish.gif[/img]

revenant100 · 02-01-2002, 04:33 PM

^ OMG! You're back! I never thought I'd see the day...

The Flying Fish · 02-01-2002, 04:43 PM

Heh heh... yep I am, at least for a while. I haven't had much time on the internet lately, and what time I have had I've spent at other forums... I may be able to post at least semi-regularly now though, or I might just drop off the face of the earth(maybe I'll find the REAL Billy Blaze, eh? [img]graemlins/dopefish.gif[/img] ) again for a while and then come back to suprise you all once more. [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

Justin · 02-11-2002, 08:16 PM

Oh my.

A.K. = DEITY!!!

01-27-2002, 05:59 PM	#7
Guest Guest	Re: Commander Keen Documentary I got to see it before it went offline, though I never got to save it [img]images/icons/frown.gif[/img] I'll do that next time around.

01-28-2002, 01:28 PM	#9
Joe Siegler 3D Realms Staff	Re: Commander Keen Documentary AK, I saw this earlier this morning. I knew this would happen - this thing is ****ing awesome! I want to stick it on the 3DR site, if you get a chance, zip up all the pages and graphics, and email 'em to me at [email protected]. I'll take care of the rest. __________________ Apogee / 3D Realms Employee: Dec 14, 1992 - May 22, 2009, Oct 23, 2014 - current "Lifting up the Cross to the waiting lost" - Petra \| John 3:16

01-28-2002, 01:43 PM	#10
Joe Siegler 3D Realms Staff	Re: Commander Keen Documentary Nevermind, it opened up again. I nabbed the entire thing to my hard drive. I'll get this up on the 3DR site in the fan section in the next couple of days. __________________ Apogee / 3D Realms Employee: Dec 14, 1992 - May 22, 2009, Oct 23, 2014 - current "Lifting up the Cross to the waiting lost" - Petra \| John 3:16

01-29-2002, 06:13 PM	#12
Joe Siegler 3D Realms Staff	Re: Commander Keen Documentary Yesterday we were made aware of one of the best fan things ever created for one of our games. It's the life story of Commander Keen done in the style of A&E's Biography, or E!'s True Hollywood Story. It's called "Commander Keen: 10 years on". It was done by a fan named Andrew (don't know his last name). It's quite awesome, and includes several pices of original art, and has a fictional history of Billy Blaze (aka Commander Keen). Don't know how else to intro it, so just go and check it out. If you're a fan of Keen, and old Apogee games, then you will most definitely enjoy this! Also, while you're at it, check out our "real life" Keen 10 year retrospective, published last year. This tells the real life story of the creation of Keen with input from the original id team responsible for bringing the game to life. __________________ Apogee / 3D Realms Employee: Dec 14, 1992 - May 22, 2009, Oct 23, 2014 - current "Lifting up the Cross to the waiting lost" - Petra \| John 3:16

01-30-2002, 12:46 AM	#17
Joe Siegler 3D Realms Staff	Re: Commander Keen Documentary What can I say? This thing was totally awesome - I'm glad to host it on our servers. Something this good deserved to be seen. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] __________________ Apogee / 3D Realms Employee: Dec 14, 1992 - May 22, 2009, Oct 23, 2014 - current "Lifting up the Cross to the waiting lost" - Petra \| John 3:16

01-26-2002, 03:59 AM	#1
A.K.	Commander Keen Documentary ...well, more of a "mockumentary", detailing the exciting life and times of young Billy Blaze, whose celebrity status brought about his tragic downfall... http://chasm.bravepages.com/downfall.htm WARNING: Contains slanderous misrepresentations of your favourite computer game heroes, irreverent caricatures of id Software people, and overall is the "Evil Twin" of the Commander Keen tribute that can be found on the 3D Realms website. Sounds like fun, eh? Enter at thine own peril! __________________ Too Much Spare Time enterprises - Jumping on bandwagons until they're crushed, since 1999

01-26-2002, 01:08 PM	#2
Scotty	Re: Commander Keen Documentary I saw it before it went offline. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img] I just put my browser offline, paged through it, saved each page as an IE web archive, then put all 14 .mht files in a single .zip. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img] 3.14 megs. [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img]

01-26-2002, 10:37 PM	#4
MrEricSir	Re: Commander Keen Documentary Notice that the page says that the 20mb transfer limit was exceeded, but the page's title states that the 35mb transfer limit was breached. Oops! __________________ Big Brother is watching. Dress accordingly.

01-27-2002, 12:10 AM	#6
Frenkel	Re: Commander Keen Documentary [img]images/icons/confused.gif[/img] Link says you exceded the 20 mb limit. __________________ Groeten van Frenkel Visit us at the Official S&F Prod. Homepage

01-28-2002, 04:46 AM	#8
A.K.	Re: Commander Keen Documentary Ah... could anyone recommend a free web hosting company (for the Commander Keen Doco) that is NOT one of the following?:- Freeservers.com - Every time you try to access pictures you've uploaded to that webhoster, it says you can't because they're externally linked and not hosted by their own gollygoshdarn site! [img]images/icons/mad.gif[/img] Bastards!!!! Waste MY time, would they? iwillkillthemintheirsleep... 150m.com F2S (Freedom2Surf) Liquid2K, and any others than rely on FTP Lycos, Angelfire, Tripod Doteasy.com - the hosting is free, but the Other Stuff ain't Geocities.com (BOOOO! YAH! HISS! HURL ROTTEN FRUIT!) Netomia, Bravenet (already got one of each) ----------------------------------------- It doesn't have to be a big-space server, 4 megs will cover it nicely. __________________ Too Much Spare Time enterprises - Jumping on bandwagons until they're crushed, since 1999

01-28-2002, 07:53 PM	#11
A.K.	Re: Commander Keen Documentary Thanks Joe, you've saved the day! [img]graemlins/dopefish.gif[/img] __________________ Too Much Spare Time enterprises - Jumping on bandwagons until they're crushed, since 1999

01-29-2002, 07:29 PM	#13
Brick_Sledge	Re: Commander Keen Documentary OMG [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] That has to be one of the best things I've ever seen on the Internet!!! [img]graemlins/dopefish.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/dopefish.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/dopefish.gif[/img]

01-29-2002, 07:54 PM	#14
revenant100	Re: Commander Keen Documentary LOL! That's the best! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

01-29-2002, 08:34 PM	#15
nyne	Re: Commander Keen Documentary The truth is revealed!!!! [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img] __________________ we all get the gods we deserve

01-29-2002, 09:39 PM	#16
A.K.	Re: Commander Keen Documentary The response to "CK:10 Years On" has been... astounding. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img] My only question now is, "How can I top that ?" (Snobby voice) All I ask is that when I become a rich & famous documentary producer, you don't come smashing my gates down with a battering ram... Or else "My Pretties" will get you. [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] __________________ Too Much Spare Time enterprises - Jumping on bandwagons until they're crushed, since 1999

01-30-2002, 03:29 AM	#18
ADM	Re: Commander Keen Documentary Wow! That is really cool! Someone really has to make one for the Duke games [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] hint hint AK [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]

01-30-2002, 04:12 AM	#19
A.K.	Re: Commander Keen Documentary Heh... Not me, Doomed Marine, I'm no expert on Duke Nukem - I haven't played anything beyond the first Duke 3D. I just don't have the sense of direction to survive for very long in 1st person shooters, so I lost interest in DN when all those DN 3D games came along. [img]images/icons/frown.gif[/img] [BTW, I made my own cameo appearance in the crowd scene (above)! The mullet-man (because I had a mullet in December 2000) with glasses and video camera. [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] ] __________________ Too Much Spare Time enterprises - Jumping on bandwagons until they're crushed, since 1999

01-30-2002, 03:13 PM	#20
Tjals	Re: Commander Keen Documentary ROFL! Brilliant! __________________ Live today by past experience and future wishes. But don't forget today. Be open, and live today.

01-30-2002, 05:01 PM	#21
Joe Siegler 3D Realms Staff	Re: Commander Keen Documentary FYI, I had 1,665 pageviews off the documentary just yesterday, and I didn't get it online till about 6PM, which means those figures are only for about 6 hours. __________________ Apogee / 3D Realms Employee: Dec 14, 1992 - May 22, 2009, Oct 23, 2014 - current "Lifting up the Cross to the waiting lost" - Petra \| John 3:16

01-31-2002, 12:08 AM	#24
Flaose	Re: Commander Keen Documentary Sweet! A mullet! It's not just Duke, but Max too!

01-31-2002, 02:39 AM	#25
ADM	Re: Commander Keen Documentary Yay! I can't wait to see a Duke doco from you [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img] You really have to give me a mention though ;P hehe jk

01-31-2002, 05:32 AM	#26
adurdin	Re: Commander Keen Documentary Joe, A.K.'s name is Andrew Kepple (as he has it in the credits) -- so you can update the front page if you want.

01-31-2002, 09:27 AM	#27
ardo123	Re: Commander Keen Documentary lol, that thing is hilarious! and the pictures are just awesome!!! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] Did you draw all those? or did some1 else?

01-31-2002, 11:57 AM	#28
Joe Siegler 3D Realms Staff	Re: Commander Keen Documentary I had an additional 5,785 pageviews on this yesterday. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img] __________________ Apogee / 3D Realms Employee: Dec 14, 1992 - May 22, 2009, Oct 23, 2014 - current "Lifting up the Cross to the waiting lost" - Petra \| John 3:16

01-31-2002, 02:58 PM	#29
Redlof	Re: Commander Keen Documentary I just love this picture. It's so insane. __________________ <SFA>

01-31-2002, 03:53 PM	#31
Uncle Duke	Re: Commander Keen Documentary Tears of joy . . . I'll reply for real later . . . sobs

02-01-2002, 12:33 AM	#33
Draco	Re: Commander Keen Documentary I must say, very funny. I like the Old Guy Dopefish [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img] __________________ FOOD IS MURDER Millions of innocent plants are murdered every day, to feed the hideous cravings of vegetarians and vegans like. Brought to you by the People For Photosynthesis

02-01-2002, 12:44 AM	#34
ardo123	Re: Commander Keen Documentary Just think in the future: "Commander Keen LIVES! Another 10 year retrospective" "Commander Keen is now 26, over this much you think he would at least be a General by now! Jeeze!" lol, i dont think it would actually happen... [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]

02-01-2002, 01:47 PM	#36
Joe Siegler 3D Realms Staff	Re: Commander Keen Documentary The big rush appears to have died down. Only 1,787 yesterday. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img] __________________ Apogee / 3D Realms Employee: Dec 14, 1992 - May 22, 2009, Oct 23, 2014 - current "Lifting up the Cross to the waiting lost" - Petra \| John 3:16

02-01-2002, 04:21 PM	#37
The Flying Fish	Re: Commander Keen Documentary This gets TFF's "Dopefish Seal of Fnordness": [img]graemlins/dopefish.gif[/img]

02-01-2002, 04:33 PM	#38
revenant100	Re: Commander Keen Documentary ^ OMG! You're back! I never thought I'd see the day...

02-01-2002, 04:43 PM	#39
The Flying Fish	Re: Commander Keen Documentary Heh heh... yep I am, at least for a while. I haven't had much time on the internet lately, and what time I have had I've spent at other forums... I may be able to post at least semi-regularly now though, or I might just drop off the face of the earth(maybe I'll find the REAL Billy Blaze, eh? [img]graemlins/dopefish.gif[/img] ) again for a while and then come back to suprise you all once more. [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

02-11-2002, 08:16 PM	#40
Justin	Re: Commander Keen Documentary Oh my. A.K. = DEITY!!! __________________ BEFORE POSTING IMAGES, PLEASE READ THIS: http://reg.imageshack.us/tutorial/ "good *** god, you are entitled to receive one free handjob if I am ever in your general vicinity and/or time zone" - RollingBrass**