I want to clarify the "Note that levels that won a level design contest during the eligible timeframe get an automatic nomination, unless their author requests otherwise." point for LOTY as the runner-ups did also fall under the winner clause the last years.

So: Which levels of the top 3 shall automatically qualify for LOTY? I've put up a poll. 

Please see the main LOTY2024 topic for more details on LOTY2024. This topic is merely a list of nominations.

Colorful Arty

- "Snarled pipeline" (Contest #31 Winner, NeoLemmix)

Armani

- "Cheddar-Crusted Hash Browns" (Contest #30 Winner, NeoLemmix)
- "Guts Over Fear" (Contest #30 2nd place, NeoLemmix)
- "Caffeine Addiction" (Contest #31 3rd place, NeoLemmix)
- "Where Angels Dwell" (Holiday Lemmings 2024 - Daytime 24, NeoLemmix)
- "Walking Bearfoot in the Snow" (Holiday Lemmings 2024 - Daytime 01, NeoLemmix)

Dodochacalo

- "Rooftop Run" (Fiat Lem! - Scando 07, NeoLemmix)
- "Save Our Souls" (Fiat Lem! - Scando 09, NeoLemmix)
- "Paved With Good Intentions" (Fiat Lem! - Proficio 12, NeoLemmix)
- "The Lemmings Survey Corps" (Fiat Lem! - Impero 10, NeoLemmix)
- "Honey, I Shrunk the Lems" (Fiat Lem! - Impero 13, NeoLemmix)
- "Pizza Party" (Fiat Lem! - Impero 01, NeoLemmix)

kaywhyn

- "All Your Skills Are Belong To Us!" (Contest #31 2nd place, NeoLemmix)
- "It's a Wet World!" (Contest #31 Entry, NeoLemmix)
- "To The CPU Terminal!" (Contest #31 Entry, NeoLemmix)
- "Snow Way!" (Contest #30 Entry, NeoLemmix)

Eric Derkovits

- "Mosaic Lemmings" (Contest #30 3rd place, NeoLemmix)

David

- "Steel" (DavidLems - 100 metres 05, NeoLemmix)
- "Angkor temple" (DavidLems - 400 metres 19, NeoLemmix)
- "Crystal dream" (DavidLems - 200 metres 19, NeoLemmix)
- "The building site" (DavidLems - 400 metres 18, NeoLemmix)
- "Lemmings go shopping (episode 2)" (DavidLems - 400 metres 11, NeoLemmix)
- "Lemmings are lost in the jungle" (DavidLems - 400 metres 14, NeoLemmix)

GigaLem

- "Chaos of the Holiday" (Festival Millas 2023 - Economy 04, NeoLemmix)
- "Lotus Road" (Festival Millas 2023 - Business 04, NeoLemmix)
- "All this is too much to Lake" (Festival Millas 2023 - First Class 01, NeoLemmix)
- "Blaze Through the Resort Party" (Festival Millas 2023 - First Class 06, NeoLemmix)

92Dexter11

- "House of Fun" (Lemmings Faithful - Simple 03, NeoLemmix)
- "Bombing Run Redux" (Lemmings Faithful - Simple 10, NeoLemmix)
- "Fear knot" (Lemmings Faithful - Tricky 09, NeoLemmix)

Mobiethian

- "The Lem Is Lost In The City" (Holiday Lemmings 2024 - Daytime 21, NeoLemmix)
- "The Lem is Home Alone" (Holiday Lemmings 2024 - Night 18, NeoLemmix)
- "The Christmas Cave" (Holiday Lemmings 2024 - Night 20, NeoLemmix)
- "Maximum Overdrive" (Lemmings New Worlds - Stormy 01, NeoLemmix)
- "Choo Choo Santa" (Holiday Lemmings 2024 - Night 03, NeoLemmix)
- "Bank Holiday" (Holiday Lemmings 2024 - Daytime 07, NeoLemmix)
- "Encased Exit Door" (Lemmings New Worlds - Windy 09, NeoLemmix)

Turrican

- "Space Program 10,000 B.C." (Levels by Turrican, NeoLemmix)

geoo

- "Just Mine" (single/geoo -  wrappy 06, Lix)
- "Roots of Life" (single/geoo - flowy 22, Lix)

Pieuw

- "Shelf-Control" (Fiat Lem! - Impero 04, NeoLemmix)
- "Forbidden Friendship" (Fiat Lem! - Impero 08, NeoLemmix)
- "Razing the Foundations" (Fiat Lem! - Scando 17, NeoLemmix)
- "Hypostyle Freestyle" (Fiat Lem! - Impero 06, NeoLemmix)
- "Funhouse Shmunhouse" (Fiat Lem! - Impero 11, NeoLemmix)
- "A tad mad, a tag rad!" (Fiat Lem! - Impero 14, NeoLemmix)
- "Cabinet of Curiosities" (Fiat Lem! - Scando 1, NeoLemmix)
- "Deus Ex Machina" (Fiat Lem! - Impero 16, NeoLemmix)

Strato Incendus

- "The Lem-catcher's song" (Lemmings: Hall of Fame - Bronze 18, NeoLemmix)
- "The Well-Lempered Clavier (Lemmings: Hall of Fame - Gold 24, NeoLemmix)

IchoTolot

- "Comm-Link Online!" (Contest #30 Entry, NeoLemmix)
- "Automaton Maintenance" (Contest #31 Entry, NeoLemmix)

namida

- "Death's Dare" (Lemmings Plus VII - Level 08, NeoLemmix)

Eligible Level Packs

This is simply a rough list of levels that are eligible. They have not nessecerially been nominated, and the majority probably won't be. Please note that this is probably not a complete list, especially in regard to Lix levels; if you can think of anything that should be added, let me know!

NL and Lix

geoo: geoo's Lix level pack, link is here - https://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=6672.0

Level Design Contests: Level Design Contest #30, Level Design Contest #31

MASTER-88: MASTER-88 Lemmings World

GigaLem: Festival Millas 2023 (Released in Janurary 2024)

Strato Incendus: Lemmings: Hall of Fame

Solus: Xmas Lemmings 2024

Mobiethian: Holiday Lemmings 2024, Lemmings New Worlds, Lemmings Heritage

92Dexter11: Lemmings Faithful (Only levels in the Simple and Tricky ranks, as the 2 new ranks Safe and Treacherous were released in Janurary 2025!)

Pieuw and Dodochacalo: Fiat Lem! (Let there be Lemmings!)

David: DavidLems, also his 3 Prince of Persia levels from this topic:

https://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=6656.0

LemFan: Lemmings Rundown

namida: Levels intended for Lemmings Plus VII (Link inside the Lemmings Plus topic)

AsahiNyan: TASLemmings

nin10doadict: Lemmings Squared 2.0 (Only newly added levels)

Turrrican: Mikes Lemmings Version 2 - Only new levels from 2024 (Should be V 1.07 onwards)! Levels released in 2024 in the "levels by Turrican" thread

The Levels by Turrican would be another level collection topic worth checking out.

edit March 2, 2025: Random Level Sharing topic link removed, as no levels were posted there in 2024! Thus, let's reduce clutter and eliminate as much confusion as to what's eligible for nomination for LOTY as much as possible  

For a list of nominated levels so far, please see the nominated levels topic.

And it's this time of the year again!

This is a bit different from the usual contests. You don't create a new level for this one; instead, levels released during 2024 get nominated and a winner picked from them. To be precise, the eligible dates are from 1st Janurary 2024 to 31th December 2024.

The following conditions must be met in order for a level to be eligible:
1. The level must have either been part of a large pack released during the eligible timeframe (1st Jan 2024 to 31th Dec 2024), or in some other way had its first public release during the timeframe. Private releases (such as sending to prerelease testers) do not affect eligibility either way. *
2. The level must be available for an engine that is usually eligible for the contests. Or in other words: NeoLemmix (new format version), or single-player Lix.
3. The level must be designed by a single author; collaboration levels are not eligible. (Cases of "I recreated an old level" or "I finished old scraps of terrain" are eligible!)
4. The creator of the level must not have specifically requested it be excluded.
5. The level must not have been nominated for LOTY2015/2016/2017/2018/2019/2020/2021/2022/2023.

* To clarify here: If it was released publicly prior to 1st Janurary 2024 as part of a demo or preview, but the full pack was released during the eligible period, the level is fine (as long as it wasn't nominated for LOTY2015/2016/2017/2018/2019/2020/2021/2022/2023).

Being a derivative of an ineligible level (as long as it's from the same author, the new author has a permission from the original one, or an official level) does not disqualify a level; as long as the level in question is clearly intended to stand as a seperate-but-related level rather than a newer version of the same level. Basically just don't send in carbon copies of ineligible levels.


To nominate a level, please PM me with your list of nominations. If you wish to modify your nominations at a later date, please resend the whole list of levels you wish to nominate, not just the changes.

Each user may nominate up to six levels from authors other than themself, up to a maximum of three levels per author. Anyone who nominates at least four levels by other authors may also nominate one of their own levels. (These self-nominations do not count towards the six nomination limit.)

So the maximum nomination value is: 6 levels from other users and 1 level of your own.

Note that levels that won a level design contest during the eligible timeframe get an automatic nomination, unless their author requests otherwise.

Nominations will be open until the end of April 23th 2025 (UTC). No additions / changes to nominations will be permitted after this date, with one exception: If a level someone has nominated is found to be ineligible for any reason and this is not discovered until after the deadline, they will be offered a chance to nominate a different level in its place.

Similar to last year, the voteoff will occur in stages:

Stage 1
The levels will be put into random brackets, and the top ~50% from each bracket will qualify for Stage 2.

Stage 2-3
This will also be done in regular voteoff style. The aim here will be to get down to around a couple of remaining levels, so exact details will depend on how many levels are entered.

Final Stage
This will be done in an elimination format to first determine the top 3 and then to determine a winner.

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The prize on offer will be US $10.00 for first place.

Also note that, in the interest of being reasonable, the "don't discuss levels involved in contests anywhere on the site during the voting period" rule does not fully apply to this contest; instead, it will be "do not discuss them at all within the LOTY2024 topics during voting, and don't discuss them in relation to the contest anywhere on the site".

So, that's about it! Any questions, ask here; and feel free to start nominating levels!

Ladies and gentleman, we've got our final results!

The winning level is:

Colorful Arty's "Snarled pipeline"

The 2nd place goes to:

kaywhyn's "All Your Skills Are Belong To Us!"

3rd place goes to:

Armani's "Caffeine Addiction"

Congratulations to Colorful Arty for winning the contest!

I will contact all authors of the top 3 levels regarding the determination of the next contest's ruleset.

Final round is up in this topic! 

Voting has started, be sure to vote in all of the 3 linked topics!

The contest voting will start soon, but first there seems to be a little technical thing that needs to be solved as the level images currently won't upload properly to the NL site. 
It will start once the image links are operational.

Planned:

Rule 1 -- 5 levels (~20% survival rate)
Rule 2 -- 5 levels (~20% survival rate)
Rule 3 -- 7 levels (~14% survival rate)

Rule 1

Armani's "Turn off the Light Before Bed" (2 votes)
Eric Derkovits's "Which Way?" (2 votes)
Gronkling's "Lemming Fountain" (1 vote)
IchoTolot's "Automaton Maintenance" (3 votes)
kaywhyn's "All Your Skills Are Belong To Us!" (4 votes)

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Rule 2

Armani's "Caffeine Addiction" (5 votes)
Eric Derkovits's "Right Left Right" (1 vote)
Gronkling's "Build Up to Get Down" (2 votes)
IchoTolot's "Copper 9 Cabin Fever Labs" (1 vote)
kaywhyn's "It's a Wet World!" (3 votes)

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Rule 3

Armani's "Ley Lines" (0 votes)
Colorful Arty's "Snarled pipeline" (3 votes)
Crane's "Paradox" (2 votes)
Eric Derkovits's "Come Home Lemmings Part 2" (1 vote)
Gronkling's "Decayed Grid" (0 votes)
IchoTolot's "Orbita Solis" (2 votes)
kaywhyn's "To The CPU Terminal!" (2 votes)

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Finals

kaywhyn's "All Your Skills Are Belong To Us!" (5 votes)
Armani's "Caffeine Addiction" (2 votes)
Colorful Arty's "Snarled pipeline" (6 votes)

In each voting round, you're allowed to vote for up to a certain number of levels. Vote for the levels that you want to stay in the contest, not for levels you want eliminated. You may vote for fewer levels than the permitted maximum. You may vote for your own levels.

It's not allowed to discuss the levels publicly on the forums during the voting phase, even if the level is not in the current round, or even between rounds.

You may discuss any level in private messages. You may discuss publicly off-site, e.g., you may post Youtube videos of your playthroughs, or discuss in IRC/discord chat. Eliminated levels may be discussed anywhere, even publicly on the forums.

- Voting takes place for all 3 rules at the same time. Topic links:
  Rule 1 voting topic
  Rule 2 voting topic
  Rule 3 voting topic
- Only the level with the most votes in each rule moves on. Each person only gets 1 vote for each rule.
- Dertermining the top level in a rule might result in a tiebreaker. (Edge case: A tiebreaker between tied levels results in another tie where nobody is eliminated -> All move on.)
- The top 3 then consists of the top level of reach rule. The placement is then determined in a single voting round. Each person only gets 1 vote. A tie here simply results in a tied 1st or 2nd place.

Prize:

- The "choosing the rules for the next contest" prize will be the only one you can get.
- The authors of the top three levels will each get to choose a rule. If an author got multiple levels in the top three they get to choose multiple rules accordingly.
- If people choose (near) identical rules we will sort things out through pm communication so that the rules are different.

So... let the voting begin! Each round will be open for voting for 3 days, except the final which will be 4 days.

All levels are still avialable in the discussion topic: https://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=6951.0

This topic is purely for voting on the current level design contest.

For further information please look into the contest's main voting topic.

This topic is purely for voting on the current level design contest.

For further information please look into the contest's main voting topic.

This topic is purely for voting on the current level design contest.

For further information please look into the contest's main voting topic.

I have updated my replays after the latest patch also patched some of my backroutes. 

@Pieuw  Better to process those new ones as the older partly do not work anymore.

I know it's not that slow, but I just saw the bar and thought "hmm can I cancel this?" and then fell right into the problem. 

I replicated the unresponsiveness again:

I searched for a phrase (in my case "epitome" for the last United level) - search begins and then I clicked a couple of times on "close" in the bottom right corner -> NL does not respond anymore.

I can close during searches and I do have the cursor - I also want to keep it.   

I do think the ability to interrupt is a good thing.