The poll resulted in the following:

3 days for regular votes and 4 days for finals:
    4 (40%)
2 days for regular votes and 3 days for finals:
    6 (60%)

So I will shorten the voting period to 2 days for regular votes and 3 days for finals.

Makes me wonder how easy or hard it might be to reverse engineer the binary formats of the level files and thereby potentially create your own levels to play using the demo.

So as it turns out I didn't read the webpage for the demo very carefully.  There is actually built-in level editing functionality in the demo, as noted on the demo's website:

(Secret:
§/~ Is Editor (Sometimes | or \)
+/- Is Levelchange
S Is Save
Tab Is Menu
Mouse Is Work)

The tab menu lets you see all the available objects and behaviors, which you can select and place into the level.  It looks like the demo only has a subset of all the objects and behaviors available in the full version (based on sample videos on the webpage for the full version), plus I think the level area size is limited compared to full version, so even with level editing in the demo, you will not be able to replicate the full version experience manually in the demo.  Nevertheless, the demo does seem to provide a pretty good showcase of what the gameplay is like.

Sample videos of the full version also shows that there are improvements in the UI compared to the demo (the overall style is still very 8-bit old-school).  For example it looks like grass is more visually distinct from empty in the full version, and they make subtle lighting changes on rulewords to help visually highlight active rules.

Hi Simon,

Nothing yet, I have been busy with relocation for my new job. A place has now been found but time has been spent packing and updating address details etc. I move on Monday, but will be without internet except mobile phone data until 2nd April. On the plus side, I have the week off work before my new job starts on the 1st and will hopefully have some time finally free of other distractions to look at this plus some older outstanding projects to upload when internet returns.

Rename the contest from
Lemmings Forums Level Contest
to
Level Design Contest.

Reason: Other contests are on Lemmings Forums, too, are about levels, too, and are contests, too. Example: The contest where we minimize skills on a given level. Thus Lemmings Forums Level Contest is not precise.

Good idea!

I agree that Level Design Contest is more precise.

I don't mind the author/rules/versioning in the filename, but please include the level name. The level name is the handle, not the author or the rule. When I have a loose replay called Nepster_r1v3, from what contest is that?

How about: Author_Levelname_RuleVersion?

Is there already a backroute fix for 8. Hyperspace Loop?

A fascinating level, and I'd really like to re-solve it without the
-- Simon