For anyone interested in competitive multiplayer Lemmings-like gameplay there will be the first ever Clones Tournament next weekend! (May 13th - 15th 2011)  We are still uncertain if remote entries will be accepted but if they are then you will receive a free copy of Clones when you enter the tournament, in addition to the glory and cash prizes to be won.  We are estimating remote-player entry fee to be $5 CND or less.  Please let me know if you are interested and we can pressure the event coordinators. 

Read this forum post for more details:
http://forums.clonesgame.com/clonemaster-league-play-multiplayer-f27/april-may-multiplayer-jams-and-tournament-t241.html

If you've never witnessed a multiplayer Clones match then check out this battle between myself and ttk, the programmers of Clones - http://youtu.be/x1aHWleETXE

Here are some other exciting annotated multiplayer matches:
Light Clones: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHl_3DDw1C0
Comeback: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-o9zRPg2nk
Capture The Clone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE3J8OTbxtc
Different Gravity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqNf4IKnccM
Football: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NihH-v0WnWg
Sabotage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs921Pc6moc

For those of you not familiar with Clones, it was inspired by the 2-player mode of Lemmings for SNES and fine tuned by the feedback of some members of this forum 

Many years ago we had created a network multiplayer Lemmings-like game for PC because we really wanted to play such a game, and no one else had done it.  Some of you might have tried it out, the name of the game is Clones.  Over the past 2 years we were lucky to receive some funding to assist us in making Clones a polished product. 



We are very close to releasing a public demo and i was hoping that some of you would want to help beta test the demo before we make it public.  It contains 4 multiplayer and 4 singleplayer levels.  The focus of the beta testing will be on the multiplayer experience although feedback on singleplayer would be great also.

After the demo is released i will post again to request beta testers to help find leaks/backroutes for the hardest singleplayer puzzles in the game.  I understand that not everyone will be willing or able to do this, so ideally any players who enjoyed the mayhem levels from Lemmings would be a perfect fit.

You can view our current youtube promo video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM9ovqSQ-dI (watch in HD)
To learn more about the game visit our website www.clonesgame.com

Please email to info @ clonesgame.com if you are interested in testing out the public demo and we will supply you with the download link.  Thank you and have a nice day!

rt

I have released a new version of CLONES which you can download here.



This new build adds a new game mode, CarryTheFlag and also adds some new objects such as the speed trap, bonus trap, wall crawler, and frozen clone and dark clone.

Our website is working again so if you want to make some levels using the map editor please upload to the site so that we can all enjoy them!

I run a server most of the time so go download the demo and join my sever so that we can have a match!

Recently i was informed about the lemmings .dat levelpack decompression
algorithm by ccexplore, and i was wondering if anyone would find it useful if there was an application which could convert a .dat levelpack into a series of .lvl levels for use with the
Windows version of lemmings which uses .lvl files.  I got the impression
before that most players like the DOS version better.

Another option would be to load up a levelpack into CLONES to play, but the
differences in lemmings dimensions would render many maps unplayable.  At
the very least you could edit the .lvl levels in the CLONES mapeditor but
that would require you to play them in winlemm which might not be what you
want.

Please advise.

rt
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