-  As Niesch's Who Wants to be a Pioneer is on the list, good to know that I explained properly to Niesch that it's still fine for nomination (see his post and my reply to him below it from his All You Need is Lemmings topic: https://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=6519.msg100947#msg100947. To clarify, he released the level back in 2021 in the "random level sharing topic" but it was not nominated for LOTY2022, therefore it's fine for LOTY2023.

Then it was explained wrong and it is not eligible and an oversight by me:

1. The level must have either been part of a large pack released during the eligible timeframe (1st Jan 2023 to 31th Dec 2023), or in some other way had its first public release during the timeframe.

So it did not have its first public release in 2023.

Added Simons level and "Quest From Kieran" to the lists.

Please see the main LOTY2023 topic for more details on LOTY2023. This topic is merely a list of nominations.

Contest #29 winner will be put on this list after the voting!

Simon

- "Rhizome" (Contest #27 Winner, Lix)
- "Inside Your Router" (Contest #27 Entry, Lix)

Kingshadow3

- "Lost Temple from the 4th Dimension" (Contest #28 Winner, NeoLemmix)

Gigalem

- "Hall of the Sleep Walkers" (Festival Millas 2022 - Saturn 5, NeoLemmix)
- "Have them exit first!" (Festival Millas 2022 - Saturn 4, NeoLemmix)
- "Crevasse Crossing" (Festival Millas 2022 - Neptune 1, NeoLemmix)
- "Hydro-Convergence" (Festival Millas 2022 - Uranus 7, NeoLemmix)
- "Social Neutral" (Festival Millas 2022 - Pluto 2, NeoLemmix)
- "It's the name of this Game!" (Festival Millas 2022 - Neptune 7, NeoLemmix)
- "Feeling the Flow" (Festival Millas 2022 - Saturn 6, NeoLemmix)
- "The Orange Box" (Festival Millas 2022 - Saturn 7, NeoLemmix)

Armani

- "Can't Find My Way Home" (Lemmings Halloween 2023 - Festival 3, NeoLemmix)
- "Insulator" (Lemmings Halloween 2023 - Funeral 3, NeoLemmix)
- "Don't Look Back!" (Lemmings Halloween 2023 - Funeral 8, NeoLemmix)
- "Cherry Picking" (Lemmings Halloween 2023 - Funeral 14, NeoLemmix)
- "Utilitarianism" (Lemmings Halloween 2023 - Funeral 15, NeoLemmix)
- "The Weasel Island" (Contest #28 Entry, NeoLemmix)
- "Tensegrity" (Contest #29 Entry Winner, NeoLemmix)
- "Hero Call" (Lemmings Halloween 2023 - Festival 6, NeoLemmix)
- "Flesh, Blood, and No Bones" (Lemmings Halloween 2023 - Festival 10, NeoLemmix)
- "Lemmings Die When They Are Killed" (Lemmings Halloween 2023 - Funeral 5, NeoLemmix)

Niesch

- "Tomb of Doom" (Contest #27 Entry, NeoLemmix)
- "Crazy Golf" (All You Need Is Lemmings - All You Need Is Lemmings 2, NeoLemmix)
- "A Silly Place Called Lemlot" (All You Need Is Lemmings - All You Need Is Lemmings 10, NeoLemmix)

Turrican

- "The Moon on Vacation" (Mikes Lemmings Version 2 - Rigel 8, NeoLemmix)
- "Cyberlems 2555" (Mikes Lemmings Version 2 - Rigel 10, NeoLemmix)

Lemfan

- "Cutting Edge Wiring." (Oddlems - Taxing 39, NeoLemmix)

kieranmillar

- "Down the Tubes" (Quest for Kieran - Fun 8, NeoLemmix)
- "Rock-A-Bye-Lemmy" (Quest for Kieran - Hard But Still Fun 4, NeoLemmix)
- "Final Resting Place" (Kieran's Abandoned Zone - Abandoned 9, NeoLemmix)

Crane

- "Shim-Shimminy, Shim-Shimminy" (Lemmings Cranium - Cunning 19, NeoLemmix)

IchoTolot

- "Wishful Work Within Woodwork World" (Contest #28 Entry, NeoLemmix)
- "Internecion Cube" (Contest #27 Entry, NeoLemmix)

kaywhyn

- "A-MAZE-ING Brick House Evacuation" (Contest #29 Entry, NeoLemmix)
- "Fun Teleportation Race in Space" (Contest #29 Entry, NeoLemmix)
- "Sports-tacular No Athlete Rescue Mission" (Contest #28 Entry, NeoLemmix)

Duuddu

- "Unusual Lemmings" (Unusual Lemmings - Hard 2, NeoLemmix)

geoo

- "Dangerous Goods" (Contest #29 Entry, Lix)

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 2023 get nominated and a winner picked from them. To be precise, the eligible dates are from 1st Janurary 2023 to 31th December 2023.

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 Jan 2023 to 31th Dec 2023), 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), 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 LOTY2015/2016/2017/2018/2019/2020/2021/2022.

* To clarify here: If it was released publicly prior to 1st Janurary 2023 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 LOTY2015/2016/2017/2018/2019/2020/2021/2022).

Being a derivative of an ineligible level (as long as it's from the same author, the new author has a permission from the original one, or an official level) 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. Basically just don't send in carbon copies of ineligible levels.


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

So the maximum nomination value is: 6 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 end of April 4th 2024 (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
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 a couple of 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 LOTY2023 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!

New solution!

Maybe a bit better

Hm, I think it would be best to focus getting rid of a skill slot and cull the swimmer hatch - or make a 2nd hatch and limit the swimmer hatch to 1 lem (even though that fix is a bit dirtier).

Got new solutions.