Quote from: WillLem on October 21, 2026, 06:40:32 PMWith that said, you're not the first person to request MIDI support in NeoLemmix and you likely won't be the last.

wow i didn't knew that  

Quote from: WillLem on October 21, 2026, 06:40:32 PMIn the linked topic, namida mentions BassMidi as a possible solution for MIDI support in NeoLemmix, and it may be time for someone (me!) to take a look and see if it can be done.

I've added it to the long-term to-do list.

luckily this can be the chance

Quote from: WillLem on October 21, 2026, 06:40:32 PMSee this for an explanation of what MIDI essentially is, why it's different from other audio formats, and why adding support for it isn't as simple as adding the file extension to the existing list.

i mean i know what a midi is

it is a audio composed by piano modules or smth

Thank you so much for taking the time to reply.  I had no idea there were other clones out there - I just set Claude making it for the kids ipads - they have loved it, I have loved playing it again and It's great that we havenow made a level editor with levels we can share for each other. 

It seems that the whole community here is well ahead of me so I'll not confuse things by sharing 'yet another remake' I have been fixing quirks in steel ground pieces tonight to improve the game - I hope I'm allowed to say that.

All the best.

See this for an explanation of what MIDI essentially is, why it's different from other audio formats, and why adding support for it isn't as simple as adding the file extension to the existing list.

With that said, you're not the first person to request MIDI support in NeoLemmix and you likely won't be the last. In the linked topic, namida mentions BassMidi as a possible solution for MIDI support in NeoLemmix, and it may be time for someone (me!) to take a look and see if it can be done.

I've added it to the long-term to-do list.

Just had a quick look on Amiga Forever and can confirm that the Basher and Miner both cannot be assigned when the lemming is in direct contact with the steel. I'm not sure of the exact pixel distance, but 8px sounds about right. If the lemming is within that distance from the steel, the skill is not assigned - although we do hear the familiar 'dink' sound even in this case.

A couple of comments though:

1) This is your project, so you don't always have to be 100% faithful to the source material. I would encourage you to do whatever feels right to you as developer of this clone. It can be as unique as you like!

2) We do already have a significant number of clones based on the DOS version, and (afaik) none based on the Amiga version. I'd encourage you to use the Amiga panel graphics and general color palette rather than DOS's yucky yellow skill panel and plain black background. It would make for a good USP for your clone!

Also, welcome to the Forums!

also i forgot to mention that i also love the "a shot in the dark theme song" version of lemmings

yeah... that explains why i did and made this post...

It was supposed to, I've just checked our discord. There have been delays and the VOD was not recovered from Twitch in time. They have the local recordings, they just need to make their way to the cutter. That was the news we heard from 2 days ago. I reckon it'll take at least another week.

How are people getting on with their designs? When this dropped i did four days solid of getting my Rule 1 done. My Rule 2 is about halfway done and I'm pretty excited about it. My rule 3 is coming along nicely too but that's taking ages.

Hi all, I'm new here. I've been building a Lemmings remake for iPad, with the DOS physics ported across and a level editor. I'm hoping someone here knows the answer to a steel question.

In DOS Lemmings, you can't assign a basher, miner or digger if the lemming is within about 8px of steel. The game checks for steel 8px ahead at chest height, and for digger and miner it also checks under the feet. The skill is refused outright, so there's no chink and no skill used up. The chink only plays once a lemming is already bashing or digging and hits steel.

It also means a lemming walking along a steel area can't start bashing until it's a few pixels clear of it.

Did the Amiga and Atari ST and PC versions behave the same way? Or could you assign the skill right up against steel and just get the chink? I'm trying to decide whether to keep the DOS behaviour or let the skill go on and chink.

Thanks, and thanks for all the brilliant work on Lemmix and NeoLemmix, which has been a big help.

Just a quick update on Neon Swarm, (my take on a lemmings clone), which I'm developing as a hobby project together with some other games as part of Lockstep Arcade.

The main improvements are setup for tutorial and single player 'campaigns', and I've also worked on improving the tutorial, and trying to make this generally more accessible.

Based on watching people play, and talking to players, Neon Swarm has actually felt like the hardest sell out of all the games in the arcade. People find this complicated and find it difficult to understand what is actually going on. Unlike some other games in the arcade, Neon Swarm is also not playable on a phone, which is then another thing that makes people less likely to play this.

I noticed that quite a few people, when starting the tutorial, just don't get the way the UI works, with clicking on a button to chose an order, and then clicking on a swarmer (lemming) to give them that order.

I made some mouse cursor changes, e.g. with a cross hair cursor after selecting the order, to indicate targeting something in the world, and tried to make the instructions clearer, but none of this seemed to help much.

I've now added a tutorial hints system, which highlights the specific UI action you need to do next, for the earlier tutorials (as shown in the following video), so let's see if this helps.


More generally, I personally *like* a kind of minimalist approach to Lemmings, and so Neon Swarm just shows small coloured rectangles for the swarmers, as opposed to proper animated characters, but I think, on reflection, that most other people probably don't share this preference, and the animations and character of the lemmings in the original are probably very important in making this interesting to a lot of people.

For Lockstep Arcade, in general, I've found that it's easier to get people to try the single player versions of games, and so there's been a lot of focus on single player tutorials and campaigns, but I don't think this is really the most promising or interesting part of Neon Swarm.

Here's a video of a single player game on the Cauldrons map:


The arcade is playable in a web browser, here:

https://locksteparcade.com/Client

I'm really interested in any thoughts/ideas/suggestions from people on here..