Note: This topic originally began as the Loap announcement topic on the "Other Projects" board, before Loap got its own board.Early days yet. No promises this will eventuate - many of my projects do not, as you all would know by now.
But I figured - I'm wanting to learn some 3D graphics / coding anyway, and need to do something as a practice / learning project. The ideas that came to mind were either this, or a 3D remake of my RPG. The latter would require far more modelling / etc work than I feel confident taking on at this stage, so the L3D clone was the way to go. It started as "display some blocks, make lemmings walk around", but the more I did on it, the more I felt that I wanted to make it playable, too.
So, yeah! I figured this is far enough along now to at least make a topic. It's still in early stages yet; currently, it can display blocks, which lemmings can walk around on. Said lemmings can exhibit exactly three behaviors at this time - walker, faller, and splatter. They respond correctly to the level layout (eg. things they can ascend / can't, or deflector blocks) - there is one intentional difference from L3D's behavior here, not just a pre-set path or similar.
Hopefully, at some point, this will become a fully playable L3D clone, easy to use on modern PCs (and unlike NeoLemmix, it's being made using a cross-platform framework so Linux and Mac builds are a very realistic possibility),
with better camera controls. I should stress that this is
not going to be a Lemmix-style clone, in other words, it will NOT replicate L3D's physics exactly; it'll be more like somewhere between Lemmini-style and NeoLemmix-style, a bit closer to the Lemmini side.
(And if you were wondering about the name? It comes from "Lemmings on a Plane". You know, because a plane is a 3D surface, but also a subtle reference to "Snakes on a Plane"... also the only other names I could think of either weren't that great or were too close to "Lemmix".)
Here's a few videos showing what I've achieved so far. Be warned that I decided to have a bit of fun with the textures and video names/descriptions in a few cases. These links are in order from oldest to newest, and there are no new ones that I haven't shown off on Discord for those who were following there. More videos are posted throughout the topic.
https://youtu.be/t_QOBhVdqzMhttps://youtu.be/FX8bKtbAuaIhttps://youtu.be/4wlU9nYyl3khttps://youtu.be/DhTJhBc2cV4https://youtu.be/MaNz7OD_0n8https://youtu.be/kBX-FvxV6xghttps://youtu.be/misH9oaJjxU---
There is no release build available (even of an experimental / demo nature) yet, however the source code is available here:
https://bitbucket.org/namida42/loap/