Harrrrrrrrd.

50 x 75 / (7-1) = 625. 625 - 8 - 4 = 613.

2 3 4 6 8 = 25 ... for warming up
2 3 4 6 8 25 = 768 ... for the real meat

-- Simon

I like this post and have read it entirely.

According to Mike Dailly's History of Lemmings, the developers took themselves and the games slightly less serious. The elaborate story for Tribes and Chronicles was a little surprising, but even that has plenty of jokes, so it fits this mindset. It has the potential to be dropped apruptly and still fit all this. The abrupt ending with Chronicles, which was already planned to get extensions, doesn't fit, you're right.

Egyptian, medieval castle, space, all of these are common chiche/game themes. Circus is odd, but it's easy to make terrain for it, just colorful blocks. (Quote Simon: "There are diagonal blocks, too!" Insane Steve: "I don't need those, screw that blocks") L3D picks up so many of the L2 themes, that's probably not a coincidence still.

-- Simon

Very nice!

After you describe it, it sounds logical to have special objects with directional funneling capability, but I've still did not expect them.

-- Simon

IDE: Under Windows, I've used Codeblocks, a free and cross-platform IDE for C++ and others. cc's proposal of Microsoft Visual Studio Express should also work nicely.

Some consider bloated what others consider essential, so you have to choose if/which IDE to use yourself in the end. Guyperfect will likely recommend not using an IDE at all, and just doing everything with the command line. (-: You might learn some fundamentals that way, and it is not hard either.

Without IDE: Use any text editor, write a hello world program, and save it somewhere with .cpp as the extension. Open a command line, switch to the file's directory and type g++ yourfile.cpp. If you get no console output, everything works, and there will be a generated executable in the same directory.

If you get compiler errors, fix the source. If you get "g++: command not found" or similar error, see whether there is an executable named g++ among the executables installed by MinGW. If there is none, but there is g++-win32 or similar, copy that and name it g++. If the command is still not found even though g++ exists, add the directory containing the MinGW executables to your PATH variable. Hunt around the web for how to do that on your Windows system.

I'm sitting in IRC, should you need quick help.

-- Simon

This is somewhat a hard concept for me to put into words...

For each level, find the smallest N such that a solution exists with the original skillset, with no skill used more than N times.

Rotating hamsters have to be added to this post to make it seem non-wisecracky.


Also, results:
Tricky 1: 1
Tricky 2: 5 (from the min-total-skill topic)
Tricky 3: 2

-- Simon

The trigger area is managed by DOS L1 in squares of 4x4 pixels.

I'm not sure why there should be a more severe restriction for multiples of 8, or whether oddly placed (= not at multiple of 4) special objects work. I vaguely recall that such objects lose their physical effect and behave like decoration. Edit after ccexplore's next post: Behaving like decoration is what objects with too high a z-coordinate do, not what oddly placed objects do.

Others will know better though. :-)

-- Simon

Hmm, drowners still explode in L1, but rarely have an effect on terrain.

Even the exploding splatter in Lemmini won't enable backroutes unless he splats exactly 5 seconds after spawning. :-) -- Edit: No, he might enable backroutes, if the explosion could not happen as low as that otherwise...

-- Simon

Version 2013-09-17 is up, it breaks hint lines automatically at the end of the screen. You can write long hints without manual insertions of <br>.

<br> for manual linebreaks is still possible, it's recommended for poetry or other structured text.

$HINT_ENGLISH Tapestry, tapestry, on the wall,<br>who is your owner afterall?<br>I wish it were mine...

-- Simon