I just finished (as in reached the credits, although there is still plenty more to do in the game) Hollow Knight: Silksong, the sequel to Hollow Knight, which is just about the only modern game that I love as much as I love the classics    Both games are Metroidvanias with vast worlds to explore, and I love the feeling of exploration and discovery, not knowing what's around each new corner, and gradually piecing things together and building connections. Both games also have a ton of colourful characters and fascinating, well-developed worlds, presented in a very cryptic way so that as you explore, you gradually come to understand them.

However, I discovered Hollow Knight through a Let's Play, which I'm grateful for as I might have missed it altogether, but that did mean that I never had the experience of playing it completely blind for myself. So Silksong has been an amazing opportunity to immerse myself in that experience. I have recorded my playthrough (96 episodes so far!) but haven't started uploading it yet as that would take huge chunks of time away from playing. At this point I'll probably just keep going, either until I 100% the game or until I decide I've reached a point where it makes sense to stop recording and play the rest by myself, and only start uploading then 

Namida is also playing this game at the moment.

Dolly Dimple is the 22nd level of ONML and it has six tracks, so on Amiga/Mac it will have the fourth track in the rotation. That's the one called ohno_05 in NeoLemmix (because NL numbers the ONML tracks following the DOS version).

You can already do that; create a background image that's a single colour, and place it in the "backgrounds" folder inside the style folder. See the ones in proxima_tile for examples. For good performance, it's better for the image to be relatively large, not 1x1.

I think the important thing is to disentangle the two questions. The number of votes everyone gets to cast does not have to equal the number of levels that make it through to the mixed group. If we separate those, then we can make meaningful decisions on each one, and we won't have a tug-of-war where both want to change and drag the other with them.

My thoughts on both:

Only one level should go through, except in case of ties. If we keep the "3 rules, with a mixed group to determine the overall winner" structure (and that structure has worked well and I don't see a reason to change it), then the ideal is one voting round per group and one for the mixed round. We have to have some system in place in case of ties, but if we go back to multiple levels going through then we have more voting rounds even in the best case, with even more if tiebreaks are needed, and we risk a return to the bad old days of contests being bogged down in an unending stream of votes.

(In case anyone doesn't know or doesn't remember how bad things used to be, the contest that provoked the discussion that led to us changing the system had eleven votes to select a winner out of twelve levels.)

It's true that with only one level going through from each group, the second-best level in each group can't get a prize even if it's second-best overall. I'm fine with that. "Best" is subjective anyway, and the important thing is to have a voting system that does the job of selecting a top three that is in some measure representative of the community's preferences, without the voting being too complicated or taking too long. The phrase "the perfect is the enemy of the good" comes to mind.

As someone who occasionally enters contests but usually doesn't, yes, I would like to be able to vote for more than one level in the rule groups, if there are at least 4 entries. There being a lot of high-quality levels is more common than not, and it's great to be able to recognise this by voting for my favourite two (or even three in a large group); then even if they don't win, I feel at least I was able to give them my support.

Quote from: Simon on May 27, 2025, 07:30:52 PMThe color cycling is fundamentally problematic. NL color-cycles the gadgets in clear-physics mode, I don't like that either. With the glaring color cycle, the designer is telling me: He has no clue what colors are best, therefore let's cycle through all colors in hope that, sometimes, non-clashing colors are in the cycle. But now the designer has dodged the design problem at hand. His job was to make stuff look distinct. Instead, he distracts me with animation/motion, and there will be clashing colors in the cycle, i.e., stuff looks temporarily the same. Exactly what his design should have avoided.

 

See Styles download links for an explanation. You can either download all styles at once with the top link in that topic, or you can download the LP2 styles using the second link, replacing "XXXXXX" with each style's name; for the LP2 styles, these are namida_desert, namida_metal, namida_psychedelic, namida_purple and namida_tree.

Quote from: kaywhyn on May 19, 2025, 11:10:22 AMFor example, this is what makes it possible to complete the WAFD (We All Fall Down) levels with only two diggers in NL, but if I'm not mistaken, the 2 digger solution on Dos is impossible. Instead, I believe it takes a minimum of 3 diggers to complete IIRC?

3 for Fun, 5 for Tricky, 7 for Taxing, 9 for Mayhem. Because no cancelling is possible, the best solution on DOS is to crowd the lemmings as tightly as possible into each digger's pit, so you need 1 digger per 9 lemmings (rounded up).

Let's keep it together in one topic. Also, it's a good idea to take a look at other games on RetroAchievements, and especially existing sets for Lemmings games, to get an idea of point values.

Anyway, some suggestions. Obviously, pretty much any level could have an achievement for saving the maximum or for minimum skills, so I'm trying to pick out more interesting ones. (Some of these will overlap with talismans in Lemmings Redux.)

Fun 3: Save 47/50 (1pt)
Fun 7: Save 100% with 2 builders (5pts)
Fun 8: Save 100% with 3 skills (3pts)
Fun 11: Save 100% with no builders (5pts)
Fun 13: Solve with 10 diggers or less (10pts)
Fun 17: Save 100% (2pts)

Tricky 19: Solve with no miner (10pts)
Tricky 23: Save at least 95% (20pts)
Tricky 24: Save 100% (5pts)
Tricky 25: Save 100% (25pts)
Tricky 30: Save 100% with no builders (5pts)

Taxing 1: Save 100% with 6 builders (5pts)
Taxing 2: Save 100% (2pts)
Taxing 4: Save 100% (5pts)
Taxing 16: Save 100% (50pts) (maybe this is too hard to include)
Taxing 18: Save 100% (25pts)
Taxing 22: Solve with 2 builders (10pts) (note that Amiga already requires 100% on this level)

Mayhem 3: Solve with no climber (10pts)
Mayhem 7: Save 100% (5pts)
Mayhem 25: Solved with 5 builders (10pts)
Mayhem 26: Save 95/100 (20pts)
Mayhem 30: Save 100% (10pts)

I agree with Icho. In Lix, you can assign a miner on steel to hit the steel and immediately turn. Being unable to assign is different from this.

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White koans:
BADGER      MOLE
BEAVER      OTTER
CHIPMUNK    RATE
ERAT        TAER
FERAT       TEAR
FERET
FERRET
LEMMING
MARTEN
MICE

Black koans:
ART         MOUSEL
AT          OTTERS
BADGERS     RAT
BAT         SHREW
BT          SQUIRELLS
FRAT        SQUIRREL
HAWK        SQUIRRELS
KIWI        WEASEL
LEMMINGS    WEASELS
MOUSE

I guess that SQUIRELLS was a typo and you wanted SQUIRRELS, so I've added both.

White koans:
BADGER      MOLE
BEAVER      OTTER
CHIPMUNK    VERRON
ERAT
FERAT
FERET
FERRET
LEMMING
MARTEN
MICE

Black koans:
AT          OTTERS
BADGERS     RAT
BAT         SHREW
BT          SQUIRELLS
FRAT        SQUIRREL
HAWK        SQUIRRELS
KIWI        WEASEL
LEMMINGS    WEASELS
MOUSE
MOUSEL

Thanks for being understanding 

White koans:
BADGER      OTTER
BEAVER      VERRON
CHIPMUNK
ERAT
FERAT
FERET
FERRET
LEMMING
MARTEN
MOLE

Black koans:
AT        SQUIRREL
BAT       WEASEL
BT
FRAT
HAWK
KIWI
MOUSE
MOUSEL
RAT
SHREW

Sorry, I'm going to say this is too many. In this case it's not that I think your guess will trivialise the round, just that adding so many to the list at once is not fun and it would be nicer to play in smaller chunks.

White koans:
BADGER      VERRON
BEAVER
CHIPMUNK
FERAT
FERET
FERRET
LEMMING
MARTEN
MOLE
OTTER

Black koans:
BAT
HAWK
KIWI
MOUSE
MOUSEL
SHREW
SQUIRREL
WEASEL