Start/About Welcome to Commander Genius Commander Genius is a software piece that interprets the Commander Keen Invasion of the Vorticons and Galaxy series. As fans and developers we try to implement new features, improve the gameplay and give players an experience that feels like playing the original game but a bit more refreshing.

NOTE: We are currently looking for fans of Commander Keen, developers, or artists who are interested in helping us. If someone wants to make a better interpreter for the Invasion of the Vorticons Series (Also Galaxy series, Dreams, and mods or maybe any other DOS game) they are more than welcome to help us. Just drop our project leader an email message at: gerstrong@gmail.com

Goodbye Galaxy and Keen Dreams support We are working hard on the Commander Genius support for the Goodbye Galaxy series, Keen Dreams, and also mods like Keen 7-9. Commander Keen 4-6 are already supported and fully playable. Invasion of the Vorticons support This series is fully supported. All three episodes are playable. OS Support Not just Windows, Linux, and MacOS but other platforms are supported as well!

Features Keen 1-6 and Dreams support

Four Player Mode

Fully customizable button layout on keyboards, gamepads and other input devices

Graphic scalers

Hardware acceleration

Six difficulty modes in all the Commander Keen games

Mods support

Automatic extraction of data (sounds, story, etc.) from exe-files

Ingame Music support using HQP (Yes, music in the Invasion of the Vorticons series! Get it from our download page. It's absolutely free!)

New graphical effects

Much faster, because no emulation layer

HUD in Invasion of the Vorticons like you enjoyed it in Galaxy

High Quality Pack for Graphics, Sound effects and music

and much more... By the way, it's free! >> Go to the download page here!!

The right hand image that you see is Commander Keen in a dark room when playing the game normally under DOS (or for example DOS-Box). To the left you see the room using Commander Genius. Quite the difference, huh?! The darkness depends on the difficulty, so watch your step. ;-)

The Commander Genius Team Currently Active: Main Developer and project manager: Gerhard Wolfgang Stein (aka Gerstrong)

Ports for Nintendo Switch and Testing: Elias Oenal

Developer, resource administrator and main tester: Tulip

Tester:Mancus Nemo

Tester:Hagel

Ports to Google Android: Pelya Retired Devs: Developer and resources: Tulip

Developer and tester: Albert Zeyer

Developer and tester: Pizza2004

Developer and resources: Pickle

Resources and resources: NY00123 Special Thanks to: Markus Arnold

Alber Zeyer

Pelya

Pizza2004

Strength

Scott Smith (aka Pickle)

NY00123

Tomer Feiner

James K. Beard

Clobber

Ceilick

Casey (aka FCTW)

Zear

Lemm

DaVince

Sciz CT

Iv4n

ThunderPX

Mink

CKeen

TheHackerCat

Malvineos

Lemm

Chrisfischtopher

Hans de Goede

Levelass

ZidaneA

DSL (Cool Icon design)

Napalm (Information about PC-Speaker sound)

Commander Spleen

Lucio Agostinho

...and many more we might have forgotten to mention.

Requirements

You need the original DOS game files in order to play on Commander Genius. Commander Keen: Marooned on Mars and Secret of the Oracle are as shareware already bundled. Commander Keen: The Earth Explodes and Commander Keen: Keen Must Die! are registered versions which can be purchased from 3D Realms, Apogee, or purchased from someone willing to sell you their copy, same goes for Keen 5 and 6. If you happen to have these old games, then give Commander Genius a try! You will be surprised at how good they look and how much fun they are still to play!