Unfortunately, Droidlings is still missing a lot of polish (menus, more robust level pack support, progress tracking), but since the gameplay itself is fully implemented and I probably won't have time in the foreseeable future to keep working on it, I figure I might as well release what I have... Who knows, if I get enough feedback it might even motivate me to make some time!

So, here's an APK with the current state (very, very alpha) of Droidlings. It includes the 5 levels I have made so far, and also has support for loading the original DOS Lemmings levels (currently just Lemmings and Oh No More Lemmings). To load the original levels, you will need to copy the original dos lemmings files to "/sdcard/Droidlings/Lemmings" and "/sdcard/Droidlings/OhNo". The DAT files must be located directly within those directories (e.g., "/sdcard/Droidlings/Lemmings/MAIN.DAT). Sorry that these paths are currently hard-coded, this is part of the "more robust level pack support" that I mentioned above.

What you can do to help?
1) Give me feedback!
2) Create levels using the graphic sets from this post: http://www.lemmingsforums.com/index.php?topic=609.msg13318#msg13318
3) Create additional graphic sets and accompanying levels (in order to avoid legal issues with Sony, NO assets from the original game may be used).

Originally I was planning to make Droidlings a paid (99c) App on the Play Store to cover my investment in hiring an artist to draw the graphics, but if at least half of the levels (that's 63 levels deemed worthy by me to make it into the game) are contributed by the community, I'll make Droidlings free (if and when I complete it) and possibly even OpenSource it.

I'm working on a couple new tile sets for my Android clone of Lemmings, and am having some problems writing a valid ground file (one that works with lemmix). The terrain pieces weren't very difficult, but I'm having some problems with the object information.

Specifically, whenever I load an object in Lemmix (except for the exit for some reason), I get the error "Source rectangle is invalid." Objects display fine in the object selection menu of the inspector window, and also display in-game (F2), but are not animated correctly (the entrance starts slightly open, then opens and jumps back to closed for the last frame, the exit and all other objects don't animate at all).

Trying to start the original game (vgalemmi.exe) shows the level preview correctly, but crashes when I try to start playing.

Are there some hard-coded assumptions the game (and lemmix) make about the animation of the objects? Or about the size of the object? Is there some data I'm forgetting in the ground file?

I've attached an excerpt of one of the tilesets for anyone who has any idea about what I'm talking about 
Thanks!
Johannes

p.s. Yes, I will release the complete tilesets to all you fine folk soon. In fact, I will be holding a level design competition for anyone interested in contributing some levels for the clone. Stay tuned!

Hi,

I think I asked this a couple years back on the old forum, but I never got an answer there, so I'll try my luck once again

Does anyone know where DOS Lemmings gets its level order/difficulty information from? The levels are wildly distributed across the various level data files, and I have no idea where to look for a list of levels in game order. Or is the order hard-coded into the executable?

Thanks!
Johannes