NeoLemmix Level Pack: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5wmai4epk4oxusb/Contest_16.zip?dl=1

- Put the folder of the level pack in the "levels" folder of your NeoLemmix Player.

Music: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ps5t0vdrt3ozp00/Contest_16_Music.zip?dl=1

- The music must be put inside the "music" folder of the NeoLemmix player. If the folder doesn't exists, create it.

Non Standard tilesets from nin10doaddict and SQron188 (nessesary for 2 levels inside the NL pack): https://www.dropbox.com/s/9vnbjou260v3klk/Contest_16_Tilesets.zip?dl=1

- Put the tilesets folder into the styles folder of the NL player.


Rule 1 Levels

Colorful Arty's "Spider Attack!" (V5)
IchoTolot's "Trinity Tower" (V2)
SQron188's "Powerplant Faceplant" (V6)

Rule 2 Levels

Colorful Arty's "Sunset Sprint!" (V1)
Crane's "Run!" (V15)
IchoTolot's "2 Minutes Before The Mall Opens" (V1)
Nessy's "How To Self-Destruct A Factory" (V2)
nin10doaddict's "On the fritz" (V1)

Rule 3 Levels

Crane's "Two's company..." (V2)
Nessy's "Butterfly Cult" (V2)
SQron188's "Forest Stroll" (V8)
Proxima's "The Sign of Four" (V1)

You can check the rules details again here: https://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=4041.0

Playing Phase will be closed on 15th of Februrary!
Updates will close on 12th of Februrary!

Note: This topic is for posting your comments, replays, etc for the levels. If you wish to post an update to your level, or enter a late submission, please do so in the Updates Topic instead.

For a list of nominated levels so far, please see the nominated levels topic.

And it's this time of the year again!

This is a bit different from the usual contests. You don't create a new level for this one; instead, levels released during 2018(ish) get nominated and a winner picked from them. To be precise, the eligible dates are from 1st December 2017 to 31th December 2018.

The following conditions must be met in order for a level to be eligible:
1. The level must have either been part of a large pack released during the eligible timeframe (1st Dec 2017 to 31th Dec 2018), or in some other way had its first public release during the timeframe. Private releases (such as sending to prerelease testers) do not affect eligibility either way. *
2. The level must be available for an engine that is usually eligible for the contests. Or in other words: NeoLemmix (new format version, levels which are/can be converted from old format levels are eligible though - mainly radiation and slowfreeze stuff is therefore affected), or single-player Lix.
3. The level must be designed by a single author; collaboration levels are not eligible.
4. The creator of the level must not have specifically requested it be excluded.
5. The level must not have been nominated for LOTY2015/2016/2017.

* To clarify here: If it was released publicly prior to Dec 1st 2017 as part of a demo or preview, but the full pack was released during the eligible period, the level is fine (as long as it wasn't nominated for LOTY2015/2016/2017).

Being a derivative of an ineligible level (as long as it's from the same author) does not disqualify a level; as long as the level in question is clearly intended to stand as a seperate-but-related level rather than a newer version of the same level.

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To nominate a level, please PM me with your list of nominations. If you wish to modify your nominations at a later date, please resend the whole list of levels you wish to nominate, not just the changes.

Each user may nominate up to four levels from authors other than themself, up to a maximum of two levels per author. Anyone who nominates at least three levels by other authors may also nominate one of their own levels. (These self-nominations do not count towards the four nomination limit.)

So the maximum nomination value is: 4 levels from other users and 1 level of your own.

Note that levels that won a level design contest during the eligible timeframe get an automatic nomination, unless their author requests otherwise.

Nominations will be open until the beginning of February 14th 2019 (UTC). No additions / changes to nominations will be permitted after this date, with one exception: If a level someone has nominated is found to be ineligible for any reason and this is not discovered until after the deadline, they will be offered a chance to nominate a different level in its place.

Similar to last year, the voteoff will occur in three stages:

Stage 1
This will be done similar to how the first rounds of the voteoffs for the official games were. The levels will be put into random brackets, and the top ~50% from each bracket will qualify for Stage 2.

Stage 2
This will also be done in regular voteoff style. The aim here will be to get down to around 4~6 remaining levels, so exact details will depend on how many levels are entered.

Stage 3
This will be done in an elimination format over multiple rounds; each round, one level gets knocked out, and the others continue onto the next round, until we have a winner.

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The prize on offer will be US $10.00 for first place.

Also note that, in the interest of being reasonable, the "don't discuss levels involved in contests anywhere on the site during the voting period" rule does not fully apply to this contest; instead, it will be "do not discuss them at all within the LOTY2017 topics during voting, and don't discuss them in relation to the contest anywhere on the site".

So, that's about it! Any questions, ask here; and feel free to start nominating levels!

In recent time it was more often than usual the case that some stable, but newer tilesets were missing from pack-downloads, as they are still missing in the standard library on the website.

To counteract this and ensuring a more up-to-date standard library, how about making ~ monthly NL styles folder updates?

I would suggest doing one right now, after gathering the missing ones in this topic first.

Missing ones would be:

- zanzindorf_agony                          https://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=3700.0
- SQrons 2 new Turrican tilesets      https://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=4011.0
- nin10doaddict's Ta lava set           https://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=3953.0
- nin10doaddict's Tetris attach set  https://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=3824.0

I think Giga also has some new stable tilesets.

If I missed anything here, post the tileset! Let's get the standard library up-to-date again!

I think Nessy and/or Nepster will be able to put the new library download up for the installer+styles link with no bigger problems.

Welcome to another contest of the Lemmingsforums! This time the three rules have been picked by various people as Nessy decided to split up his rule choosing prize for winning an older contest.

A few words to new participants and forum members: If you haven't entered before, I strongly encourage you to try - even if you don't win, it's fun to participate; and we have had cases where first-time entrants have won before!; there are three choices of rules given, you may enter one level each for up to two of the rules.
You may either use new format NeoLemmix, or Lix.
If you have two entries, they may (but do not have to) be for the same engine. Please make sure you tested your level for basic solvability before submitting and be sure to also submit any custom tileset you are using, so others have no problem playing your level.

Pre contest testing: You can choose 1 person who does a bit of pre-testing for you, so that the biggest backroutes and screw-ups of your levels can be detected before the playing phase. I cannot control this so it's only a guideline, but still I would prefer not everyone knows every level before the playing phase starts.

Here are the rules on how the submission deadlines work:
- Initial submission phase deadline will extend such that it's 72 hours from the time of the last submission, up to the 5th submission (inclusive). After this it no longer changes no matter what.
- Update phase deadline will not extend over the initial dead line!
- Even if you missed the cutoff date for the initial submission phase, late entries are accepted until the update phase ends. There is no penalty for a late entry, beyond that people are less likely to spend as much time on the level before voting begins.

And here is the new ruleset:

Rule 1

Make a level whose height is at least three times as big as its width.

Basically the width is up to the creator and the height is whatever the chosen width is >= times 3. That is the only restriction.

Rule 2

Sprint!
Create a level with a time limit of at most 2 minutes.
The furthest hatch/pre-placed lemming that has to be saved must be at least 640 horizontal pixels away from the respected exit they must go to.  640 pixels = 2 screens, for Lix: 1280 pixels

Distance is measured by the basic object positions in the editor (bottom right corner in the NL editor) and not the exactly the spawn trigger/exit trigger positions here to simplify the distance rule.

I won't disqulify over slight inaccuracies by a few pixels, as long as the creator does not actively try to mess with the spirit of the rule. Also simply using teleporters to cover all of the distance isn't forbidden, but I would discourage it.

In Lix the intended solution has to be under 2 minutes and the timer's urge can be simulated with a hatch that needs external help near the exit in slightly under 2 minutes.
How to measure time in Lix: You can show phyus in Lix. 15 phyus are 1 sec. The level starts at 45 phyus. The first spawn is at 60 phyus.  You can show phyus by ticking the option in the tab "graphics". So the solution must be completed in under 1800 phyus.

Rule 3

Make a level with at least 3 hatches, no preplaced lems and no cloners, and the save requirement must be exactly equal to the number spawned by all but one hatch.

So basically save requirement for n hatches = Lemmings in n-1 hatches. With n >= 3.

Example:

- You must have at least 3 hatches
- If there are exactly 3 hatches, the save requirement must be 2/3 of the number of lemmings. It doesn't have to be 3 lems, save 2; it can be 6 and save 4, or 30 and save 20, or any other numbers in the same ratio.
- If there are exactly 4 hatches, the save requirement must be 3/4 of the number of lemmings; with 5 hatches, 4/5; and so on.


Submission phase ends Janurary 14th 2019 at 00:00 UTC. This should give everyone enough time to think about a level. Deadline for the playing / update phase will be announced when it begins.

Ruleset in detail again: http://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=2246.0

Send me a personal message with your level/s and if needed tileset/s to participate. It would also be nice to also tell me the rule which each level satisfies.

Prize selection:
- US $5.00
- One month's advertising on the forums news ticker
- Pick next contest's rules

Entries so far: 11

- nin10doaddict (1)
- Crane (2)
- IchoTolot (2)
- Nessy (2)
- SQron188 (2)
- Colorful Arty (2)

I solved a certain old format contest level exploiting this behavior. This is still possible in new format NL though as the replay format didn't change.

Reproducing:

- Load a level.
- Assign a skill to a lemming.
- Assign a 2nd skill on the very next frame (for simplicity purposes) to another Lemming.
- Save the replay.
- Close NL and open the replay file with a texteditor.
- Look at the 2 skills assigned and change the frame of the 2nd skill to the frame of the first, while updating the 2nd Lemming's position to the position the Lemming had on the frame before:

Example:

Original file:

$ASSIGNMENT
  FRAME 85
  LEM_INDEX 1
  LEM_X 111
  LEM_Y 135
  LEM_DIR left
  ACTION builder
$END

$ASSIGNMENT
  FRAME 86
  LEM_INDEX 0
  LEM_X 209
  LEM_Y 151
  LEM_DIR right
  ACTION basher
$END

After editing:

$ASSIGNMENT
  FRAME 85
  LEM_INDEX 1
  LEM_X 111
  LEM_Y 135
  LEM_DIR left
  ACTION builder
$END

$ASSIGNMENT
  FRAME 85
  LEM_INDEX 0
  LEM_X 208
  LEM_Y 151
  LEM_DIR right
  ACTION basher
$END

(I've attached an example file where the first 2 assignments are a double assign)

NL will accept and load the edited file and assign both skills in the same frame to their respective Lemmings.

Fix proposal:

If we have multiple assignments in the same frame in a replay file: Only execute the first assignment, while all other assignments in the same frame will be ignored.

This fix will therefore trigger no NL error and it won't be noticable. This is only discovered anyways if a user deliberatly edits a replay file to do this, as double assignments are otherwise forbidden in the player.

Ladies and gentleman, we've got our final results!

Congratulations to Colorful Arty for winning the 15th Lemmings Forums Level Contest! I think that's his first victory even.

Also congratulations to SQron188 for reaching the 2nd place!

Choice for the prize for the first place is either :

- a month's advertising on the forum's news ticker
- picking the second-next contest's rules as Nepster will determine the rules for the next one
- US $5.00 (PayPal would be the easiest here I think).

We've got 6 final levels in this phase!

There will be 3 votings rounds (6-->4-->2-->1) with possible tiebreakers.

If you want to see the full list of nominated levels in non-randomized order, check the nominations list topic.
If you want to play these levels without having to dig up all the various level packs, check the playing phase topic which has an NXP available for download that contains all the nominated levels.

Please remember that discussing the nominated levels is not allowed in the LOTY2017 topics now that voting has begun. This does not apply to levels that have already been eliminated at the time. Discussing them elsewhere in the site is okay, as long as it's not in the context of LOTY2017.