the core philosophy shifted away from execution difficulty and towards puzzle difficulty.
It makes sense
IchoTolot, I would rather beat my head to find a solution rather than rack my brains to build ten thousand stairs in one level and find myself losing because a pixel is missing.
I used a lot myself in my Lemmicks pack.
Strato Incendus, you understood what I explained since you had done the same thing as me. I kept my old levels, even the ones with the water rising, but most of them have been "
updated".
Thus, in the pack that I just proposed on the forum a few days ago, the levels "
Fuite d'eau" (in "
400 metres" rank) and "
Scénario de film d'horreur" (in "
Marathon" rank) originally featured rising water, which made the game more exciting !
And for me, the difficulty represented by the element "
rising water" took the place of both the
execution difficulty and
puzzle difficulty. In another unpublished and unreleased level, the rising water forced the player to consider a very specific strategy that was not obvious ! Unlike execution difficulty, which was only slightly increased, the puzzle became much more difficult to solve.
But hey, I'm not going to do NeoLemmix again, it's great as it is ! And it's not his current little flaws that will prevent me from embracing him (or even the Covid : I'm crazy !)
As the water rises, on the other hand, you can set an individual ascent rate for each water object (...) it becomes difficult to predict how much time you will have before a given section of the level is covered by water, and plan your solution around this limitation accordingly
For me, the problem arises mainly for the really difficult levels, "
mayhem ++++"! Whether the water rises slowly or quickly doesn't necessarily affect the difficulty of a level. Is not it ? Then, I also enjoy the unpredictable.
Did you share your old 1.43 levels somewhere? My Lemmicks pack is the only one that I know of that was created after slaughtering the gadgets. Everything else seems to be a holdover from ancient times.
Okay ! I didn't know ! No, this is my first time sharing a level pack on the forum, but
Gigalem must have posted a level pack of my levels somewhere on the forum a year or two... or more ago. It was the old version, but... I believe, after removing the gimmicks.
Do you know where it comes from?
Not at all ! I don't speak English very well ... so. But, I am very very very curious !