Ken's Labyrinth

eMTe · Post by **eMTe** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 1:56

Never a smashing hit, Ken's Labyrinth was technically something between Wolfenstein and Doom. Or Duke Nukem 3D, since Duke was built with the same engine. Game was released freeware in 1999.

Developer: Ken Silverman

Download:

http://www.advsys.net/ken/klab.htm

Post by **Chroelle** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 17:37

I cant believe you beat me to it. I was gonna submit Kens Labyrinth. I played it when it came out and lots more times. The weird part is that it was very addictive to me. I never got really addicted to these games. And it wasn't the fancy graphics that entized me.

eMTe · Post by **eMTe** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 23:16

Game crashes everytime you press wrong button ie you perform an action than in normal circumstances would be followed by common in Wolf-like games muffled *thump*. Try to press F1 if you dont hav a weapon assigned to this key or press SPACE if you dont face a wall.. I'll try it with DOSBox at some point.

Post by **Chroelle** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 13:58

Good size FPS, with lots of Wolfenstein/Doom feeling to it. Graphics are a bit old-school but when did that ever turn off anybody in here?

eMTe · Post by **eMTe** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 22:40

Year and 2 months after my promise Ill be checking it with DOSBox and VDM... Looks to me as crashes are related to sound effects.

Bump! They are. Site says so. 2.0 version crashes when Digitized Sound is enabled.

Bump! 2: "Now it's freeware due to the fact that Epic (Mega)Games no longer sells its older titles". KL doesnt look to me like freeware at all...

earok · Post by **earok** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 13:22

Loved this game as a kid (at least until DooM came out), thought it was very cool how it had slot machines, I actually won the jackpot once but got really annoyed when my game didn't save for whatever reason.

I only ever had the shareware version so I'll definitely sit down with the full version and play it through sometime.

eMTe · Post by **eMTe** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 16:26

Well, the remake (first two links) doesnt have the sound problem, but I'm still not happy. There's only one strafe key and mouselooking makes you also mousemoving - so it's better to not use mouse at all. The worst thing is that my screen flickers horribly and I dont know how to fix it. I'll check different resolution settings.

Another bad thing is that once you setup Ken for the first time you cant do this again. At least I dont know how. So if you want to change settings you must delete config file. Not the most convenient system.

And if you experience sound problems just set sound to general MIDI.

Had original Ken difficulty levels?

eMTe · Post by **eMTe** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 15:59

Still flickers. I must try another version I guess.

As for my post from March I didnt notice that the site hosting Ken is owned by game's creator himself... So he must have rights for the game.

Pater Alf · Post by **Pater Alf** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 21:15

I think that was a great game when it was first published. Now about 15 years passed and in a certain way the time wasn't very friendly with "Ken's Labyrinth". It's stille quite entertaining, mainly because of the good level design, but when you look at controls, graphics and music this game doesn't look fresh anymore.

I think it should be on the site, because it's fun for nostalgic gamers and it was one of the first FPS games, but I'm not sure that I will play it very much.

eMTe · Post by **eMTe** » Sat Feb 06, 2010 15:56

Strange thing. According to my posts I had big trouble with original version and less trouble with modern port. Now it's the other way around. Modern version does odd things like not working Esc key and screen turned 90 degrees counterclockwise (happened to me only once before). Classic version from 1993 works perfectly and with sounds. Hmmm...