Just thought I'd make a thread for batting around tileset ideas, because 1: I couldn't find a pre-existing topic about this, and 2: I keep getting random tileset ideas popping into my head every now and then, but don't actually have any use for them, and so I'm unlikely to actually make them.
My ideas here are primarily for 2D Lemmings/Lemmings-style games, but ideas suited to any type of Lemmings game (from Lemmings 3D, to Lemmings Paintball, to Lemmings Revolution) are all welcome.
My first contribution here is a "Farmland" style, with fields, mud, and plenty of farm equipment that, in true Lemmings style (and most certainly not in the style of the absolutely terrifying farm-safety videos once aired in UK schools!), can cause grim deaths.
Being an outdoors setting, it would also allow for using a couple of the enemies from The Lemmings Chronicles, too - namely, the Psycho Buzzard, and the Potato Beast (the latter of which I would imagine would be especially at home in a farmer's field, for some reason).
My second thought is a "Computer-innards" set, somewhat inspired by the computer settings in Lemmings 3D, but also partly inspired by an amusing comment I saw elsewhere that analogised overclocking a computer to hamsters in wheels, noting that inadequate cooling wouldn't do said hamsters any good.
Naturally, my mind connected this idea with Lemmings, and came up with this. There's plenty of scope for primarily-electrical hazards in this one, as well as plenty of chances to include computer components that function as indestructible terrain (hey, it makes a change from steel and suchlike, right?).
Last of all, to round this out, I imagined a "Rainforest" style, primarily focussed on natural hazards such as water, deadly spiky stuff, large gaps and long falls (I suspect there'd be a lot of quite tall trees!), and so on. That said, it could also play host to some new enemy creatures, too - perhaps a poison-spitting frog that you can't allow your lemmings to get too close to, or a large spider that can grab them from overhead and carry them off, or other unpleasant indigenous wildlife.
Those are all of the ideas I have, for now. Anyone else?