Hi Kaywhyn

It's good to hear from you, hope you have been doing well. Looking forward to checking your let's play out. I've been working on my the book which is about harm OCD. I'm hoping to maybe get it published as a paperback soon. See how things go in the future.

You don't mind if I post my thoughts here, hope that's okay.

Welldone on completing that pack, it's a very hard one and does contain a lot of builder heavy levels. I do feel my nuked Lems one was a lot better than the skii sloping lemmings. Nukem Lems seems to be getting a better reception than the skii sloping one. Interesting looking at the different solutions to the levels. I wasn't too impressed with the skii sloping lemmings myself, I was thinking of maybe removing it as it seems to be causing more frustration than anything else. I'm thinking about that as I don't think it's a good level pack, to be honest.

 I was hoping to maybe making more packs in the future but like before only focusing on the original eight skills ones. I'm not really one for the new skills at the moment as I haven't really looked into them too much. I wonder if I should have a go at making a big level pack again but lessons learned from the previous one especially skii sloping lemmings.

The bombing fest level in Nukedlems I wasn't too keen on myself as I remember it was like bomb after bomb. I remember that one. (hehe)

I might focus more on a similar pack like Nuked lems, I feel that this pack did a bit or is it fair to say a lot better than the skii sloping lemmings. One of the problems I had with skii sloping ones was because the frame stepping was there It sort of encourages me to maybe do alot of levels that are hard to execute if that makes sense.

Interesting you were mentioning about tall levels. The main reason I tend to do levels with maybe a lot of areas is more of a decoration thing, I like the idea of someone just looking around at the level, like the (art gallery) level from the original lemmings game. The decoration in lemmings is always a big thing with me. Maybe precision levels can get very annoying I agree totally there. Fire and death if I remember right was a level you had to have good precision.

It looks like I did 100 times better when making the Nuked Lems, I hope it's okay to say this as I want to improve and if I do simliar levels in the future, hoping people will like those ones.

Thanks Namida

Right I will have a look into that and see if I can get it working.

Hi Kaywhyn 

When I was at college I use to hang around with the special needs students as a lot of them were very friendly. I remember meeting a man who people were making fun of him or winding him up. I started to talk to him and he seemed like a really nice man. I hope I still get to see him in the future, he was a special needs student at the college. We always had some interesting conversations about topics such as football and many other topics. I thought it was a bit sad that the mainstream students usually stayed together, not really hanging around with the special needs students. I always found that kind of sad but that's that I suppose. I'm hoping to maybe having my book published around the start of next year or even earlier. The main idea behind the story is four characters who talk about their OCD, all four characters have the same OCD as myself which is harm OCD. The one I have is where I get thoughts and urges to do bad things, for example, my mind could tell me to send a horrible e-mail to someone. Usually, if I see a story in the news it tends to panic me as I imagine myself being the person who is committing the crime. Days can be tough but getting out and about has been an important thing for me as I can challenge the OCD, a lot of OCD sufferers might not go out much due to their condition which I think is a sad one. Yes, baby steps is a good approach, Interesting what you were saying there about the Lper the level packs. I think that's what makes a good let's play as you were saying about it being more action and less pause and think. The Skii Sloping lemmings might not be the best pack out there as I remember there being a lot of levels being a building fest and some of the later levels might have had a precism element to them. I would there are some good levels in the pack but I wouldn't say the skii sloping level pack was my biggest achievement. You might like the pack a lot. I remember removing two or three levels from the skii sloping lemmings as one of them was just basically using too many builders and it would probably get very boring for the person playing the level.

I remember in Maths we did flow charts and I remember when I was trying to draw everything things never went too well. I got more use to it the more that I was doing it. We did some statistics and boolean algebra if I have the name right. The funny thing recently was I was looking up a few maths terms which were to do with statistics such as looking at the mode, median, and mean of statistics. I found it quite interesting. Math is actually a brilliant subject as it is everywhere. You Picked a good subject to teach Kaywhyn.

You might find certain students have their weaknesses and strengths when it comes down to math. I remember back in school we did some mental math which was quite good, we had ten questions and we got to see how many of them we got right.

Interesting what you were saying about the exams, yes I agree use most of the time, I guess that's what the time is there for. I remember doing a modern studies exam and there was a lot of writing involved I got a scribe who do the writing for me. I thought it helped a lot. I remember a lot of the answers had to have a lot of words in them. I did my modern studies on China and Crime and punishment which were both very interesting subjects. I always thought the whole debate about the death penalty was always interesting. Everyone tends to have their own views on it. (Me not like the death penalty)

I remember when I was first learning algebra I didn't understand it at all. I remember my dad gave my brother and I this algebra question and it took me a long time to figure it out. Mind you I was very young at the time, can't quite remember what age I was. Algabra is a great subject to learn, yeah as you were saying it does trick a lot of us who are very new to the concept.   

Hi everyone

The last couple of years have been a bit slow due to the pandemic.

I'm hoping to get my first paperback book published. This one is about the mental health condition I have which is harm OCD. In this book, there are four characters who all suffer from harm OCD and they talk about what day-to-day life is like. Some of the things they describe can be horrible but that's what this condition is like it can be a horrible one to live with. Each character will talk about their day-to-day life and mention how the condition affects them. I'm hoping to get this one published so I can show the world what this condition is like. I have been in contact with someone who would publish it but I won't name any companies or charities here. My main idea was to get it published so it might appear in the (Barnes and noble) shores and other stores as well. Usually, when people think of OCD they tend to think of people who are washing or cleaning their hands a lot, OCD is a lot more than just that as there is a lot of suffering internally for the person.

If all goes well I hope to get the condition noticed a lot more. That would be my main goal. I'm getting a little article published in one of the ocd magazines as well. I'm hoping I could become a regular contributor but see what happens with that. I always think it is good to share your opinion on things.

This next thing I'm going to talk about might not be the most populist thing in the world but it's a goal for myself anyway. I remember watching a few documentaries to do with prisons in America and the way the inmates get treated can be so appalling. I know they committed horrible crimes but I felt that the guards took things too far. If you get the chance check the (Stanford Experiment) it was an experiment where they got a big group of volunteers and put them into two groups, one of them are the prisoners while the other group was the guards. It ended up the guards were treating the prisons in a terrible way. One film I remember watching the actual guard was peeing all over the prisoner, showing him no respect at all. (Thought that was terrible). Now going back to what I was saying, my goal is in support of prisoners getting the vote in the UK. At the moment they don't have the right to vote. I'm thinking of doing a campaign where I mention most of the benefits to prisoners getting the vote, I was maybe thinking of doing a debate with an MP or MSP who is against prisoners getting the right to vote. I really do think that it would be of benefit to give prisoners the right to vote even though it won't be the most popular thing with most people. I've always felt like prisoners need to be treated like human beings, not the other way round.

It has always been something I want to change for which are prisoners getting the right to vote in the UK. In some countries, the prisoners are able to vote which I think is the way forward. I want to be able to live in a society where people get treated with respect.

I'm hoping to get back into volunteering, I've been off since March last year due to the pandemic. I can understand when you are volunteering in the hospital shop it can be a lot of cause for concern due to the pandemic. Let us hope things do get better in relation to the covid.

You do make some interesting points WillLem.

Actually now thinking about it I think it would be good to have the two as separate skills. One could be for the instant bombers and the other for timed bombers. Only reason for saying that one is I think a lot of the recent Neolemmix levels might become impossible if we changed back to time bombers and not have instant bombers at all, that would be my main worry.

I like your campaigning style. You like a lot of things that I like, like the hidden exits, mind you I wouldn't make every level a hidden exit one but maybe one or two, I don't see the problem with that.  At the moment the physics mode shows where the exits are. I think maybe making it so that the physics modes still show everything except for where the exits are. I don't want to go off-topic too much here. I think that's a good way to get change in things with the campaigning. I do like the idea of having both options available. 

Hi everyone

I thought of this idea a good while back and might as well put it out there. What basically this idea was is to suggest video games to other users. You suggest the game and then name the person who would be most likely to take up the suggestion. You don't have take up the game or anything but it might be a game you would really like.

There's a game called fitznik which I think Geoo, Simon and maybe Mobius would like. It's a puzzle based balderdash style game which is very fun, maybe not as hard as superplex but one great game.

http://www.screamingduck.com/

Thanks Kaywhyn, I consider that a Christmas present to me as well. We watched another one of your videos, been enjoying seeing the solution, I like how there was one level where you might have thought, how the heck do I solve this.

I'll probably give more detailed feedback on the levels after the new year.

I fixed a very major backroute for (This will be mayhem) level and the new download is up at the top. Would you be up for trying the new (This will be mayhem) level?

Merry Christmas everyone.