Yep, good ideas, already made a sticky.

If the board's going to be Lix and Multiplayer, the following topics can also be moved there, which cannot be performed by geoo nor me:

• [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

Proposed description for Lix and Multiplayer: Lix is a Lemmings-like game featuring networked multiplayer, an editor, and singleplayer.

-- Simon

I've decided to go with the sub-board option for now.

As said earlier by Proxima, Clam, geoo, and myself, a Level Design sub-board is not the best choice. Only 4 out of currently 9 topics are about levels.

In addition, a great chunk of Lix talk in IRC is not about levels at all, and having done that in the Lemmings Forums threads wouldn't have suited the old forum structure at all. Level design has so far been about the only thing discussable in appropriate topics.

Please make the Lix board a top-level board like any other, because that is what suits the expected content and serves the needs of the userbase.

-- Simon

minimac: What exactly is the problem? If there is a red tree icon in the preview, then you lack some terrain pieces. View data/log.txt and scroll all the way to the bottom, it lists the filenames of the missing terrain.

Most likely, it's Proxima's fire object. I forgot where it was uploaded, probably here in this thread or in another popular thread about Lix.

-- Simon

Solution for 3-1.

Like it, but I haven't played a lot of levels in the past, so I can't tell about similarity to previous levels. The visuals are good, this is how to use the carnival pieces harmoniously and consistently.

-- Simon

Yep, backroute. Splat distance is broken by the first steps. Version 2 of the level is attached, the crane is simply 16 pixels higher.

I'll retract calling the level easy. The solution isn't immediately obvious. I mainly thought it's easy because this level was designed pun first, then visuals, and the puzzle last.

Join IRC for a chat if you have nothing to do right now, nobody's there right now

-- Simon

I'm more for a general Lix board preferred to a Level design sub-board, since level design is just a small part of what's discussed. Just one huge topic for bug discussion etc. is hard to keep track of right now, and it's bad practise anyway. If you make a board, I'll make a list of topics to move there.

However, a separate board will clash with the remaining site's design. The site is categorized not by game, but by topic, and all boards span across all available games.

Bug tracking is already done on the Lix site -- anonymous posting is possible again now. There's also a general board there, but it lacks common features and action.

-- Simon

First problem: Move mouse really, really hard and quick, to get outside the window in one frame.

I reset the mouse position to the center all the time to allow infinite mouse movement for right-click scrolling, and Allegro doesn't provide the raw mouse input.

Second problem: I think I already do most of the stuff usually advised for Allegro 4 programs. This is an old problem with has already annoyed people on their forums. I might still play around with this someday. It doesn't help either that I do all graphics with the CPU.

-- Simon

Havoc 19: Looks a Bit Nippy Out There [...] Good: [...] Good pun on the title.

Clam, geoo, and me were all wondering in IRC -- what is the pun reference? Clam first thought it was Monty Python, but searches didn't yield anything.

-- Simon