Race maps are already distinguished because they're in a separate race directory. But yes, they should certainly get tags.

-- Simon

Thanks for the good rundown!

Yeah, Flopsy has added tags to a good chunk of levels. I believe nobody else has added any tags or thought of new meanings yet.

Here's a Unix pipeline to see all tags in use, and its output on 0.9.47:

ack -h TAG levels/ | sort -u
$TAG asymmetric
$TAG classic
$TAG compression
$TAG difficult
$TAG disjoint-union
$TAG fall-survival
$TAG few-skills
$TAG gimmick
$TAG long-play
$TAG max-si
$TAG multiple-hatch
$TAG rescue
$TAG short-play

EDIT: I'll try to get a list of what tags I assigned to what multi level. Be probably wise to use this topic to keep track of tags while we get through the backlog

That should also be doable with some Unix magic. Tell me when you need it, and what exacly: For each level, list the tags? Or for each tag, list all levels in which the tag appears? I'm busy this week, but maybe it'll be cute distraction. Edit: First try with ack in loop aborts too quickly, will solve sometime else, ask me next week.

-- Simon

Yeah, this was largely spontaneous.

Happy to arrange another campfire when it suits you. It's even conceivable within the work week because 1-2 hours of discussion are less physically taxing than playing Lix for 3 hours. I'll be busy until Tue, Oct 4th, sometime after that would suit me. Thursdays are bad.

As I told geoo at the end: We don't need campfire every week, but it's really productive to catch up with everybody at least a couple times per year. We tend to bring things or nuances to the table that would fall aside in written discussion.

-- Simon

I'm sitting in Mumble. Come join everybody!

Session is over. Only geoo joined. Thanks!

-- Simon

Hi,

this Sunday will be too short a notice for an organized multiplayer Lix session. Instead, let's meet on Mumble for a loose discussion, without playing. I'll call it a campfire discussion.

Possible topics to discuss:

• Physics on 0.10,
  
• user interface for handicap,
  
• neutral Lix, experimental physics to try in December,
  
• really long-term concerns, e.g., level maintenance N years after an author leaves,
  
• general Lemmings culture,
  
• ...anything you like. Bring your own topics!
  

This Sunday, September 25th, I'll sit in Mumble from 16:00 UTC onwards. Join me anytime on Mumble voicechat, very much like you would for a Lix session. (If you don't know my server, send me a private message on the forum here, I'll tell you.)

-- Simon

News from the battlefront.

Lix divisor, skill divisor, and spawn delay are all working well in my experimental physics.

Spawn delay can get bells and whistles in a future non-physics upgrade, by printing a countdown timer on your hatches. But that's for the future. All that matters in 0.10 is that lix spawn later by the amount that we specify.

Score divisor handicap is by far the most complex to implement nicely. In 99 % of cases, the score will be integer, and I want the computation to be exact in that case. I don't want to convert everything in scoring logic to floating point; singleplayer save counts would then be floating point, which would be madness. Thus, I'm busy these days converting the logic to rational arithmetic. The rational type will track both the raw save count as integer and the fraction from the handicap. Singleplayer can then extract the raw save count, and multiplayer stats, bars, ..., can compute the (possibly non-integer) score when they need to. Non-integral scores, I'll print them with one decimal place after a decimal dot.

I have a weak hunch that score multiplier will be the least fun handicap because it's so indirect. But that's a problem to be solved during playtesting. It's okay to work hard now and cut it in future versions if really turns out no fun.

-- Simon

Thanks for the exhaustive research! I've suspected that vanilla Lemmix and Genesis Lemmings had the same one-way assignment behavior, thanks for making it 100 % sure.

Your video with the SuperLemmini solution largely matches how I solved it in vanilla Lemmix, barring which climber does what near the end. I speculate that your solution is really close to what the devs intended.

-- Simon