Talk:Standard Galactic Alphabet

Future Stuff
Joe Siegler from Apogee here. There's two things I plan on adding here - I'd do it now, except I'd have to dig the materials out of my archives at work. One is a copy of an old piece of paper Tom Hall used to have hanging above his desk when Keen was being made. It was his original SGA document. It shows the entire alphabet as originally created.

Additionally, not all 26 letters have been used in the Keen games. At the moment, I forget which were not, I'd have to look it up.

Heh. Right after I posted this, I found the SGA scan document on the 3DR website. As I'm the webmaster there, I uploaded it here for the SGA page.

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dopefish (talk • contribs).

C & S
Are the SGA equivalents really the same, or it just my eyes?

Great article!

EVOCATIVEINTRIGUE TALKTOME | EMAILME | IMPROVEME 17:01, 4 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Look at the large version of the document. It's quite clear they're not the same thing!  --Dopefish 04:25, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

About the level in Rise Of The Triad
I found the secret message while playing the game through. I have planned a long time playing this game through and about now I have reached the secret level in episode three: E3 A8 "Eight Ways to Hell". The message is displayed in the secret area at the bottom of the map. The secret is accessible in the beginning of the long corridoor with the round rolling stones. It really says "Dopefish lives" in Standard Galactic Alphabet. I had'nt read about this, but I accidentally found the secret and as I have played the Commander Keen series many years ago (and found the SGA in Keen3 and Keen6), I recognised the letters as "Vorticon" and took immediate action to find the alphabet once again to figure the message out...

Should I say: This is neat? :D

Finnish Machine Enthusiasth         22.02.2006 (day,month,year) 21:23 (Finish time)

Glyph substitutions in other games and media
It occurs to me that the Daedra script from Morrowind and the Dinotopian script from Dinotopia are just as fun to descipher, also include messages scattered throughout, and should be grouped together in a category. --BlueNight (talk) 22:53, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Merge with Commander Keen?
I was being bored on Wikipedia today and I noticed the tag at the top of the page that basically said the page was worth nothing. I highly disagree; I think the page is awesome. But maybe it would be better if it were merged with the Commander Keen article. Just a thought.

CrayZsaaron (talk) 02:43, 27 June 2008 (UTC)


 * It's a very good idea; I'll see if I have the time to do it later... Sega381 (talk) 12:15, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I flagged the article as being print-worthy and having possibilities a while back. As the page was merged into Commander Keen a little bit ago. I am going to try to overwrite it with a translation of the Dutch article from the Netherlands Wikipedia. Mechachleopteryx (talk) 22:48, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

Page again
Made it back into a page again. Like I just mentioned, it was translated from Dutch and I am not very good at it so there might be some parts that are awkward, please make them better.

I was wondering if it would be appropriate to make some use of this image of Jimbo Wales' name in SGA as mentioned at User:Jimbo_Wales/In_many_languages... in the section "Legacy" or would this be odd somehow?

It would be good to include some of the information in from the Commander Keen article in here, some of it may have been here before.

I don't know if there is a way to remove or change the nomination for Deletion. It was deleted. This isn't that page, but a translation from nl:Standard_Galactic_Alphabet.

(talk) 23:59, 15 October 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi, I wanted to mention that I went looking for sources discussing this in-depth but so far have not been successful. I appreciate your translation, but there is a strong chance this could be redirected or deleted again as it lacks significant coverage in reliable sources. If you have or know of any sources that discuss the alphabet in detail (web, books, etc, in any language, not just English) that would help retain this, otherwise it is at risk. The original discussion (which you can find on the tag at the top of this page) actually was closed as "redirect", so barring another discussion, another redirect is likely here. ASUKITE  02:31, 16 October 2021 (UTC)