1. Penumbra: Your solution of digging down to prevent the lemmings from turning around is a way better and more obvious idea than what I did for the official solution!

QuoteThe new tileset is gorgeous. I can see myself using this tileset often.

Thank you, and I look forward to seeing what you create!


2. Welcome to the World of Tomorrow! This one was a joy to see you try to solve! (The talisman solution has exactly enough shimmiers! )

QuoteThe various water-pipe terrain pieces and water objects allow level designers to make complicated, maze-like swimmer routes, which, in my opinion, no NeoLemmix style has allowed so far.

Thank you! I feel that swimmers are seriously under-utilised in neolemmix, so all three faithful batches have included a 'water' themed style ('Mosaic', 'Brass' and now 'Freezer') to try and encourage more swimmer usage.


3. Sweet Tooth: Intended solution, nice one! I'm very proud of this level and it was very fun to watch you solve.


4. Serpent Shrine: Another one that was really fun to watch you solve, great work!


8. Lost in the Dessert: Very nice solution, I hadn't realised you could send all the lemmings across to the top left, since the love hearts above the hot air balloons were added after I had already recorded a solution for this one!

QuoteWow, I love the design of the new limited exits! The talisman says not to use any shimmiers and I was wondering how a shimmier could be helpful in this level anyway.

Thank you! I'm really proud of those exits and this level exists mainly to show them off. (The shimmiers are used in this level near the start for getting towards the grey balloon and for traversing the underside of the candy canes.)


10. Chamber of Horrors: This level was made purely to show off the new traps and their disarm animations. (Both the regular and talisman solutions rely on lemmings walking through the traps! ) Your solution was slightly more efficient than the official solution due to using the compression method and a walker at the beginning - nice one!




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2. Lemmings of the Caribbean: Differs slightly from the intended solution, but my brother says that this is fine. (I also love the kraken creature, I was quite blown away when my bro first sent me the level and I saw it for the first time )


3. The Belfry: Nice solution on this one. Originally, the talisman solution was much harder as it also forced no more than 10 walkers. I made it easier as I thought this rank already has way too many difficult talisman solutions.


6. An Omen of Doom: Watching this on youtube, I thought for sure that you were going to backroute this one, but you managed to get the intended solution. Well done! (The timing is really tight on this one, I struggled a bunch when I was solving it for myself!)


7. Bumbly Beach Bazaar: I agree that this one is extremely convoluted. It's basically impossible unless you manage keep track of the lemming with the disarmer.  I was certain that this level would have a ton of alternate solutions, however your solution seems quite similar to mine, so perhaps not?
(You are correct in that the glider is just a trap to be avoided, I don't think it's possible to save any lemming that becomes a glider due to the way the exit is positioned.)


8. Ice Nine: My brother and I were both extremely shocked that you managed to figure out the correct solution for this one so quickly! (It differs slightly from the intended solution but is still acceptable) Great work!


9. River Styx: Another one that was very fun to watch you figure out! I'm very glad you like it, it's another one I'm very proud of, thank you!
You mentioned earlier in the post that this level is very easy for the non-talisman solution, but I disagree. The neutral lemming will interfere with the splitter if it's not taken care of. The zombies also need to be killed off in order to get to the lower exit which makes it quite a tricky level in my opinion.


10. A Tale of Two Cities: I agree that this is a great finale to the pack. My brother insisted on designing a Celestial level to finish the pack off with, and I think he did a great job

The current animation is on the left, the fixed version is on the right.

For 'The Split', the backroute is pretty major in context, although for the purposes of the contest, I suppose it's fine. (The gimmick behind 'Lock and Key' is that it's intended to be a narrative with continuity, e.g., if the lemming is assigned a glider in one level, he'll start as a glider in the next level, but this context isn't relevant for the contest so it's fine here.) I'll have to release an update for it at some point later.

For Epilogue, the solution is very impressive and uses all available skills. Backroutes aren't really as relevant for this one, since in context it's the final level of the pack. Either way, it's fine for the purposes of the LOTY contest too!

The 'Prepare' rank was quite easy and very enjoyable, the levels are beautifully decorated and often reminded me of levels from the original lemmings game. As an added challenge, I tried to save 100% on each of these levels, which was also very fun.

My favourites from this rank are probably "Tree Trunk Labyrinth", "A Sacred Vault", "Down in the Root Cellar", "A Little Flower Walk", and "Valley of the Mushrooms". The latter three especially were quite fun since they were quite tricky to save every Lemming. I also really like the designs of "Construction Function", "The Steel City" and "Caught in Liminal Space".



I found the 'Nuisance' rank to be much harder, some of the later levels really got me thinking. My favourite is "The Chosen One". I think it's really great level to end out on due to its high difficulty. Solving this one felt really rewarding, since it forces you to think critically and piece together the solution based on the odd skill selection and save requirement. "Mesmerizing", "Hoppin' On the Groove Line", "In the Rear with the Gear", "Glow in the Dark Pool" "Deep Chasm of Coinage" and "Terrarium" were also really fun, although I wasn't able to get the talisman for the latter.

By far the hardest for me was "Mirror World", it took me hours to solve, and I'm fairly certain my solution is a backroute, but I'm at a loss for ideas on how to proceed otherwise. "Down the Rabbit Hole" was also a really tricky level that I think I backrouted.

Also, just FYI, in the level "When the Whistles Blow" the steam on the far right side of the level doesn't kill the lemmings - it needs to be 1 pixel lower so they don't walk under it.