ADG Episode 22 - Ken's Labyrinth

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Pixelmusement

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Published on August 1, 2013 10:58:21 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q7bVDgQ2jg

Game:

Ken's Labyrinth (1993)

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Show

Duration: 15:31

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Episode Originally Released: October 30th, 2010

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I've been a game designer/programmer for the majority of my life thus far, so games like Ken's Labyrinth are special to me in that they have that raw feel that can only come from games made almost entirely by single individuals.

I've spoken to Ken a few times in the past few years too, even since before starting ADG since I had an idea for a game made out of cubical worlds and one of Ken's earlier engines before the Build Engine worked on this concept. My timing was terrible though, since this was just months before Infiniminer and Minecraft hit the scene. x_x;

Still, whenever I need to spark my game design creativity, this is typically the game I turn to! :)

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Additional Information and Corrections:

* Here's a quick link to the page on Ken Silverman's website devoted to Ken's Labyrinth: http://www.advsys.net/ken/klab.htm

* Yes, I'm aware that Ken Silverman didn't make Ken's Labyrinth ENTIRELY on his own, but he was responsible for all of the programming and all of the numerous music tracks. For the art, level design and sound effects he had help from Andrew Cotter, plus Mikko Iho also helped with the artwork. Several other people are listed under Special Thanks, likely for beta testing, though Mark Rein provided Sparky's trademark barking sound.

* One tip I forgot to mention is that if you get lost, the best thing to do is to just hug either the walls on your left or the walls on your right. In fact, you can beat Level 25 effortlessly if you hug the walls on your right from the very start!

* I was informed by the guy who made the Lab3D-SDL source port, Jan Lönnberg, that the reason you can spend entire episodes with seemingly infinite amounts of potions and such was due to a bug. What's actually going on is that the game stores the moment in time when a powerup is to deactivate, so if you end an episode with a powerup active that you recently obtained, when you start the next episode the game timer resets and thus the powerup you picked up will last all the way until the game timer catches up with its deactivation time. (IE: If you end an episode with an active grey cloak that should end at the 6000-second mark, you will start the next episode with 100 minutes of grey cloak power!)

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