Hi everybody,
I've noticed that Lix doesn't have enough really dark and foreboding tile-sets. If you look at the original
Lemmings, particularly the dirt- and Hell-themed sets, it's quite gritty. Also, there aren't enough non-straight-line pieces. So, taking my lamentation to its logical extreme, I've made an H.P. Lovecraft-inspired "occult" horror set. It's still a work-in-progress, but I have proof-of-concept sludge, skulls, and steel. I've gone a little retro - limited palette and some dithering - to make it feel a little more nostalgic and reflect
Lemmings-like constraints, even if it is all original art.
You can download it directly
here, or check my
deviantart for the same link.
Concept occult level: (edit: more polished level now shown. Both versions included in download. edit
2: changed preview image to include hatch's final frame.)
This should look familiar for
Lemmings veterans:
So... thoughts?
One problem is that a few of the terrain pieces are slightly asymmetrical. I'm working to make flipped pixel-mask versions of them for perfect tournament balance, especially the 16x16 sludge end-pieces, but the differences are mostly insignificant anyway.
Forest-themed.
(Edit: tileset attached.)