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Contests / Re: Level of the Year 2023: Playing Phase
« on: April 18, 2024, 05:36:50 AM »
Awesome!
I took some time last night and played a few levels by Armani. I solved the first three levels which were quite excellent once I understood what the frick frack was going on (I'm not familiar at all with the "new" stuff :crylaugh:). Level 2 especially was confusing at first. But I enjoyed it in the end :thumbsup: now stuck on level 4, I'll keep going later.

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NeoLemmix Styles / Re: Orig/OhNo-style styles
« on: April 17, 2024, 11:19:32 AM »
I'd say the specific vibe of the original styles is mainly due to:

1/ A limited color palette.
2/ Not too detailed pieces that can easily be combined to make larger structures.

The original tilesets were like a toolbox to build anything. The feeling of the Tribes tilesets was quite different, probably because they contain whole recognizable objects as terrain pieces.

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Wow, incredible!
It's quite like the photo mode they added in the remasters. :thumbsup:

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NeoLemmix Levels / Re: [NeoLemmix] PiPoPack
« on: April 13, 2024, 12:51:19 PM »
Thank you Armani!

I'm locking this topic now (see note in the first message) but I'll check all your replays and come back to you in the private messages :thumbsup:

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Lemmings Main / Re: DOS Game Club on Lemmings 1
« on: April 12, 2024, 08:46:04 AM »
Just listened to the podcast. It was great, I learned a lot of little things. Well done :thumbsup:

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NeoLemmix Levels / Re: [NeoLemmix] PiPoPack
« on: April 08, 2024, 11:11:45 AM »
Well, something happened. Dodochacalo is still around! :thumbsup: We'll try to merge our levels into a bigger pack than this one. He's got around 30 levels so this would make for an 80 levels pack, which is quite fine.
We'll take some time to order levels and fix what needs to be fixed, then we can release it. The pack would probably be updated if we happen to make more levels in the future :laugh:

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NeoLemmix Levels / Re: [NeoLemmix] Lemmings Heritage Release Thread
« on: April 07, 2024, 12:28:15 PM »
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Speaking of replays, Pieuw, how did you know that solution to level 1 in Smooth? I didn't even know it myself. ha You've saved all lemmings in that level, which I didn't think was possible. Great job there! :D

Well I didn't know about it, this is jump what came to mind. It doesn't seem hard to figure this out to be honest :D I think it's normal to overlook some obvious backroutes in our own levels. Knowing the intended solution tends to blinker the mind to other possibilities (at least that's my case :crylaugh:)

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Level Design / Re: What are some tips for making difficult levels?
« on: April 06, 2024, 02:31:14 PM »
I usually try to find new or interesting ways to use skills, or to make cool "choreographies" happen. Difficulty tends to come naturally when you try to get off the beaten path. That being said, don't make hard levels for the sake of difficulty only. Your main goal should be to make your levels engaging and/or surprising and/or gorgeous to look at :laugh:

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NeoLemmix Levels / Re: [NeoLemmix] Lemmings Heritage Release Thread
« on: April 05, 2024, 12:49:15 PM »
Congrats on releasing your first pack! :thumbsup:

Since it's a relatively short and easy one I took time to play it all. Not sure if it's useful but you'll find my replays attached. Most levels seemed open-ended and I often tried to save as many lemmings as possible.
It's a fine pack even if it gets a bit repetitive in the end because the difficulty never really takes off. Otherwise, it was fun to play! Keep it up :D

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NeoLemmix Levels / Re: [NeoLemmix] PiPoPack
« on: March 31, 2024, 08:09:17 AM »
The following levels have been fixed to prevent David's backroutes. Since then he solved all of them as intended, which is neat but I'm sure some backroutes still remain :laugh:

:lemming: Posh 03 - Second-Hand Wonderland
:lemming: Posh 05 - Swim Swap Swoop
:lemming: Posh 09 - Bridges in the Sky
:lemming: Pedantic 04 - Land of Confusion
:lemming: Piquant 05 - Satanorium
:lemming: Piquant 07 - Forbidden Friendship
:lemming: Piquant 10 - False Happiness
:lemming: Pompous 01 - Emeraldpunk 5047
:lemming: Pompous 02 - Rickety Business
:lemming: Pompous 04 - Deus Ex Machina
:lemming: Pompous 06 - Itinéraire Touristique
:lemming: Pompous 07 - A tad mad, a tad rad!

I updated the attachment in the first message.

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NeoLemmix Styles / Re: Prince of Persia tileset : the palace
« on: March 25, 2024, 10:32:28 AM »
This looks neat, and brings back lots of memories :D
Well done!

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NeoLemmix Levels / Re: [NeoLemmix] PoPiPack
« on: March 24, 2024, 06:13:29 PM »
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Pieuw, I finally solved Piquant 3 (see replay) :thumbsup:. However, I didn't use the kaywhyn trick and I didn't use the climber skill. So I think this is a backroute. :( I’ll be curious to know the intended solution. For me, this is the hardest level in the pack.
This is a backroute indeed. If a solution requires such frame-by-frame "messy"skills assignment, you can safely assume this isn't what I intended :D Nevertheless, well done! You found a working solution and it's fine.
I really don't think this level is that hard, the intended solution is easy to execute and doesn't require any hard trick. It may be hard to figure out though :-[

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I didn't think there were so many backroutes in my solutions. In fact, as you specified that the progression curve was not "smooth", I wrongly thought that the difficulty was quite random. So, I wasn’t surprised to find rather easy levels in the last rank, and vice versa. Indeed, some levels in the first rank seemed quite difficult to me (Prosaic 7, Prosaic 8, and especially Prosaic 10).
The levels are ordered by ranks which are meant to get harder and harder. I just sorted them pretty quickly based on my perspective only so this is why I said the difficulty curve may be bumpy. Also, the first rank gets a bit hard very quickly because I didn't really make easy levels except for the first two.

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My solution for Piquant 10 is therefore a huge backroute! :lem-shocked: It took me many hours to solve this level. Again, I would be curious to know what the intended solution is. It was, with Piquant 3, the level that was the most difficult for me to solve.
False Happiness requires a very specific trick to be solved. You didn't use it so your solution is a backroute but this doesn't mean this is a bad solution. You got many things right, too! :thumbsup: I'm impressed you spent hours on it, I hope it didn't drive you crazy!

Would you like me to send you replays to these levels (Piquant 3, Piquant 10, Pompous 7)? Maybe more?. Or would you prefer some clues to try and solve them another way? You can PM me anytime :D

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NeoLemmix Levels / Re: [NeoLemmix] PoPiPack
« on: March 24, 2024, 09:26:10 AM »
Thank you so much @Mobiethian :-[
I don't think I'll make more levels in the near future but I may at least fix the existing ones if needed.

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NeoLemmix Levels / Re: [NeoLemmix] PoPiPack
« on: March 23, 2024, 03:26:26 PM »
@David After taking a look at my replay I can confirm Piquant 3 is solvable without any weird / fiddly trick nor extreme timing. I'm sure you'll manage to solve it eventually as you managed to beat the hardest levels of the pack :thumbsup:

I also watched your replays, here's my feedback:

These were slightly backroutish but felt OK
:lemming: Prosaic 10 - Low Tide
:lemming: Pedantic 03 - From A to B and Back Again
:lemming: Pedantic 08 - Dual Flavored Swirls
:lemming: Pedantic 10 - Cabinet of Curiosities
:lemming: Pompous 05 - Hypostyle Freestyle
:lemming: Pompous 09 - Funhouse Shmunhouse

These were backroutes but the levels are broken anyway
:lemming: Posh 04 - As not easy as it doesn't look
:lemming: Pedantic 07 - Maintenance Staff on the Loose
:lemming: Piquant 04 - Take Five

Huge backroutes
:lemming: Posh 03 - Second-Hand Wonderland
:lemming: Posh 05 - Swim Swap Swoop
:lemming: Posh 09 - Bridges in the Sky
:lemming: Pedantic 04 - Land of Confusion
:lemming: Piquant 05 - Satanorium
:lemming: Piquant 07 - Forbidden Friendship
:lemming: Piquant 10 - False Happiness
:lemming: Pompous 01 - Emeraldpunk 5047
:lemming: Pompous 02 - Rickety Business
:lemming: Pompous 04 - Deus Ex Machina
:lemming: Pompous 06 - Itinéraire Touristique
:lemming: Pompous 07 - A tad mad, a tad rad!

Puzzles you solved perfectly
:lemming: Prosaic 03 - Quid Pro Quo
:lemming: Prosaic 04 - Format Semantics of Modal Logics (though you could have saved lots of time here)
:lemming: Prosaic 06 - Smell Like Team Spirit
:lemming: Posh 01 - Paucity
:lemming: Posh 06 - Dos and Dents (thinking this one should have been placed later because of the intended trick)
:lemming: Posh 07 - Convoi Prioritaire
:lemming: Pedantic 01 - Return to the Shire
:lemming: Pedantic 02 - Novelty Act
:lemming: Pedantic 05 - Ethereal Refinery
:lemming: Pedantic 06 - Razing the Foundations
:lemming: Piquant 01 - Viaduc Caduc
:lemming: Piquant 06 - Precarious Guidance System
:lemming: Piquant 08 - The Diving Board
:lemming: Piquant 09 - Attack of the Big Root Thingies
:lemming: Pompous 03 - Structure of Matter
:lemming: Pompous 08 - Shelf Control
:lemming: Pompous 10 - Horus's Reaching Hand

The other levels were either open-ended or close enough to the intended solution. Well done solving (almost :devil:) all of them!

I may take some time in the near future to fix some backrouted levels, especially the ones I like the most. :D

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NeoLemmix Levels / Re: [NeoLemmix] PoPiPack
« on: March 23, 2024, 09:42:02 AM »
Thank you @David for the kind words! I'm delighted you enjoyed these levels :thumbsup:

They're all solvable of course and none of them require what I would call "fiddly techniques", but this may be a matter of point of view. I don't think piquant 3 requires any weird trick or tight timing but I'll take a look at my replay to make sure.

I'll also check your replays as soon as I have some time. Thanks again for the feedback!

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