How many people are using the forum nowadays? It seems less active than before my break. Silken told me that almost everyone is on Discord now, but is everything taking place there? If there's anything I can do to support the forum, please let me know, I don't want it to be replaced...

Thank you Simon, glad you like them!

Oh, and by the way, here are the raw files, for the finished ones at least.

I'm back.

I'm finally done with the modifications and the new lemoticons, and I even added some bonuses. But I'm still not satisfied with the big ones...

The sick lemming and lix are now a shade greener:


I wasn't sure how to update the "surprised" one. Each time I retouched the pupils, it looked weird and bad, so I added an exclamation mark instead:


I also changed the question mark for the "huh?" lemoticon, it took too much space:


"Mindblown" has bigger chunks of hair in the explosion:


"Lemcat" has his little nose:


Here are the two new versions of "sleep":


And now, the newest additions to the family!

Santa:


Shrugging:


Nerd:

Bonuses

Angel:


Lip Sealed:

To be honest, the hands in some of the lemoticons are still bugging me, but I can't spend more time on them when I still have other ones to finish.

Okie dokie, thanks for the feedback!

Hmm, I'll see what I can do with the "surprised" one. As for the others, I'm not sure how to make them clearer without making them look weird.

The mindblown lemming has green hair, it's just that it has been blown to tiny bits by the explosion. But I can draw bigger chunks if you want.

The fact that you're confused by the sleeping lemoticon proves I messed up. It was supposed to be bubbles with Zs in them, but it didn't work out well. I'm going to make two versions, one with just the bubbles and the other with just the Zs, so you can choose whichever you prefer.

What are you looking for with the "geek" lemoticon? A funny and ironic one to correct people, like "Well, akshuaaally...", or a more serious one to address complex topics?

It's funny that a Santa lemoticon has been made, it reminds me of the cult that gathered on the JeuxVideo.com forums.

Gotcha! Thank you very much for the info!

Since it's been a while since I was last active, I'm a bit lost regarding the game engines.

I recall that before my break, Charles released SuperLemminiToo with its first updates. However, as WillLem told me, a new engine, RetroLemmini, has been released. What's the difference? Has SuperLemminiToo been abandoned?

Also, I'm still using an old burner laptop that my father lent me, which can only do the bare minimum (but I can still do pixel art), so I'm not going to start creating levels for now...

I've finished updating them, except for the big ones, I'm not happy with how they look.
I based their design on that of Dave Pether, the artist who did the box art of "Oh No! More Lemmings", because that's the one I see when I think of Lemmings.

Smiling:


Cheesy:


Laughing:


Cry-laugh:


Tongue:


Winking:


Wink-tongue:


Cute/Blushing:


Cool:


Huh?:


Surprised/Gasping:


Shocked:


Mindblown:


Scared:


Angry:


Evil:


Devil:


Sad:


Crying:


Embarrassed:


Sick:


Dead:


Undecided:


Suspicious:


Smug:


Frowning:


Excited/Troubled:


Facepalm:


Lemcat:


Mysterious:


Screaming/Yelling:


Thumbs Up:


Eyesroll:


Sleeping/Yawning:


Holding Signs:


So the only ones left are "Party Time!", "Happy Birthday!", and "Lemmings Forever!".

Haha, good to see you again too Silken, and thank you for the warm welcome!

Quote[...] you set your Forum name to a hyphen while you were gone.

Huh? I don't remember that. When I logged on again, it was still my old username.

QuoteMay I ask why exactly?

Discord is a terrible platform, both in terms of data security and general moderation (it's especially dangerous for minors). I also read an article about how it's replacing forums, and that really worried me. As you said yourself: "the Discord server is basically as active if not more than the forums these days". I don't want forums to disappear, and I'll do everything I can to keep this one going. On the other hand, I'm fine with voice chat platforms and IRC.

Hi, I know it might be rude to bump into this discussion like that, especially since it seems that a debate is going on, but I've been meaning to ask, would you be interested in seeing the Lemoticons I remade?

For context, I drew them for a reinterpretation of the forum I did during a web design class. I just found out that the old versions were backed-up on an external hard drive. Sadly, the rest of my assignment stayed on my dead computer (I'm still gutted about it, so much was lost, those logos took a lot of time to make). I can clean them up and post them here, if you want. Just to show you that Lemmings was still on my mind during my studies.

Hello everyone, happy Lemmings Day!

Long time no see! It's true that I haven't given any sign of life for a few years, and I apologise for that, as well as for this sudden reappearance. My interest in Lemmings never faded, I simply focused more on my personal life. A lot has happened and changed since then, and I'm sure that's true for some of you too. After all, it's been quite a while, I didn't even recognise the site at first!

Since I'm still having computer problems, I can't do anything Lemmings related at the moment, but I hope to be active again soon. That being said, I will never use Discord again, I will only be present here and on the Lix Mumble server, or on another service if one has been set up during my absence.

With that, I wish you all the best!

That sounds cosy and interesting, I'll try to be here.

This morning was the first time in quite a long period that I had a dream/nightmare strong enough in content and in scary imagery that it made me violently wake up. I know it might sound strange, but I'm really happy about that. For a while, my dreams were so dull that I couldn't even remember them, I though I was losing creativity or something. Not only that, but I vividly remember a good portion of this dream and that part was about Yume 2kki, the fan sequel to Yume Nikki, which is basically a dream journal in video game form (for those who don't know). I used to play Yume 2kki really often, nowadays I still play it from time to time, but way less than before. I find it funny how I dreamt of playing a game about a girl who dreams, a dreamception if you will.   I even tried to remake what I saw with the game's assets, and no, the room and event that I describe below don't exist in the real game. There is a world that looks like it tho, and the last image does remind me of the Zalgo event, but it is quite different.

So I was in a rather dark room in some sort of school (at least it felt like a school) and me and other people were sitting at small desks in front of a huge TV screen, answering some video game related questions. I guess we were in the middle of the game as there was what looked like a score flashing on the screen from time to time. The only question I actually remember from this dream was the last one: "What Donkey Kong was supposed to be?" and, somehow, I exactly knew what was the answer of that vague question, which was Popeye. Yes, Popeye, don't ask me why. So I quickly raised my hand so the woman who was interrogating us would let me answer, but instead, she chose the girl who was to my left and to my disappointment, she correctly answered, and various NES-styled sprites of Popeye laughing started to appear everywhere on the screen. I don't exactly know if anyone won but after that, we got dismissed. The next part is a bit blurry but, I got out of the "classroom" quite bummed out and went to walk around the "school". The "school" from the outside looked more like a strange Japanese garden, with some small trimmed trees ornating the paths and walls and the floor was covered with grey and white pebbles. The "school" was also in the middle of nowhere, I recall only seeing green hills with a tall tower being built on the top of one and maybe some towns in the far distance. Then I think the woman from before and an old man, supposedly the director, were looking for me and for some reasons, I felt it wasn't for the better good, so I ran and hid myself under the pebbles. Immediately after covering myself with said pebbles, I felt my body sinking into the ground and suddenly found myself in front of a computer in a really small and dark room that made me feel like it was mine's. The computer was displaying Yume 2kki. This is the part I remember the most, almost clear as day. I was normally playing until I ended up in a room, that I replicated below.

Mock-up n#1

I tried to interact with the cabinets but as I was walking to the last one, Urotsuki (the character you play as) seemed to have tripped and a really loud alarm sound burst from the speakers. The screen flashed red and revealed that a realistic large vein/artery with a beating heart attached to it grew from Urotsuki's now headless body. Some nonsense text was being typed on the top of the screen and everything faded to red.

Mock-up n#2

Then a bunch of sprites of Urotsuki from the game and some other unreadable pieces of text were fading in and out as the alarm sound was getting even louder. The last thing that I saw before waking up with a start, was what I tried to replicate with the image below, a horrifying silhouette getting closer to the screen.

Mock-up n#3

The strange thing was, after I woke up, I noticed that my bedside lamp was on, while I'm fairly sure it was off when I went to sleep. It's not the first time this has happened, I would often turn on the light in my sleep, but it hasn't happened for years. Also, I don't know if it's the adrenaline after my nightmare or what, but I felt really good and energised when I got out of bed.

I didn't know you could already use custom tilesets, thank you very much!

Thank you for playing everybody, that was a nice session, despite the crashes!

If I have time, I'll do some changes to my new maps and I'll send them to Simon.

I might be here, I did make a new 4 to 8 players map, we could test it if you agree to.