Wow, I guess the bad news was worse than I expected. Had I totally killed your level concept?!?
In the meanwhile, here's an implementation of a level concept I had while I was away in May. Good news and bad news:
good news: finally, a ccexplore level not using the Sports tribe!
bad news: ...it uses the Egyptian tribe
Though in my defense, after the level was created in Egyptian, I did take a brief look at a few other tribes to get a feel for how they'd look, and I still think the level would look best in Egyptian.
Gold is saving all lemmings. Per Egyptian convention, the blue cane/"walking stick" thingie on the upper right is background, while everything else that doesn't animate are terrain.
Some of you may be nervous about the ballooner skill in this level, in terms of execution. While the balloon manipulation will likely be somewhat harder than in a typical official L2 level, it's not meant to be challenge-hard:
- you
don't need crazy mad skillz with balloon-steering like in my min-skill solution to Space 5 or Sports 7. There's a reason that the terrain has been set up to make the balloon not fit through the places you'd probably want it to. Try being more gentle with the fan if you're constantly blowing your ballooner into a side wall by accident.
- you
don't have to hold the ballooner at a fixed position for an extended period of time with the fan, while doing other stuff. I mean, I guess you could execute it that way too in my intended solution, but there's a smarter way.
Anyway, good luck!