Hi,

see kaywhyn's announcement post above:

Starts in 20 minutes.

-- Simon

Hi,

Flopsy has started converting some of his singleplayer levels from NeoLemmix to Lix. I've got Flopsy's first batch of 26 Lix levels.

And I'd like to playtest always-insert. I.e., airclicks cut the replay, but clicking lix doesn't cut the replay; instead, other lix' futures is preserved. How will it feel?

Let's see:
Livestream Saturday, August 22th at 14:00 UTC = 15:00 British DST = 16:00 CEST.

https://www.twitch.tv/simonnaar

-- Simon

As I've recently finished streaming kieran millar's QFK2, his custom L2 pack, I've decided to go back to roots a bit before taking on his custom L3 pack. In about an hour, at 5PM PST, I'm going to stream some NepsterLix. I've already solved all of NepsterLems back in 2023, though it took me nearly 3 years to do so, all courtesy of a level in the Black Hole rank which I was stuck on for a very long time. Am I still up to snuff with Nepster's levels after all this time? Let's find out!

Playlist link:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPAwon3nyH2E

Sorry, YouTube only, not Twitch. I don't even have an account for the latter, and I don't see myself signing up for one anytime soon

By the time I decided to give LPing a try, I had already solved too much of NepsterLems and hence decided to solve all of the pack offline. With NepsterLix, I can at least stream the entire thing from scratch, as I have never played any of it and some of these levels should be completely new to me due to not being ported over to NeoLemmix.

While this is to see how I fare with Nepster's custom Lix pack, this will also be as a way to provide feedback for the rewind to previous assignment feature, which I suggested to Simon to implement from a few years back. I'm sorry I left this hanging for so long without providing any feedback before it made its way into a stable Lix release During gameplay, I suspect I will miss the NL implementation, but you'll understand why once you see me use it a few times  

Added some extra spacing, recolored the lines, and removed the 'Release Rate' line:



The 'Release Rate' line not being there does look better if the level has a time limit. Without either (and especially if the level doesn't contain Neutrals or Zombies), the Preview screen suddenly looks a bit barren:



I prefer the button text being blue.

Thoughts?

Quote from: Guigui on August 19, 2026, 08:45:35 AMit just make more sense to have author not between level and pack name : you give all infos on the level and its position, then you give credits to its author

Putting the author immediately after the level title makes more sense because the level author and the pack author might be different.

Quote from: Simon on August 19, 2026, 07:05:55 PMTitle is important, and time limit is important (hide the entire line if no time limit). And the buttons along the bottom are important. Maybe reserve green for those buttons?

Green pops more and should be reserved for level info. I was thinking the buttons should be blue, and then nothing else in the level info should be blue.

Quote from: Simon on August 19, 2026, 07:05:55 PMTime limit line on preview is yellow ... Therefore time limit during play should be yellow, no?

OK

Perhaps it could be a box that you tick that adds it or not, i dont think id use it and dont really like the idea but i'd probably be ok if it was added as a mode you could turn on and off

@kieran

I'm very excited and am definitely looking forward to playing your custom L3 pack in the coming weeks! L3 kind of suffers from the exact same problem with the clunky engine but even moreso than L2's. There are some similarities with one another, such as how in L3 you just need to save 1 Lemming in order to progress and similarly, how there's only 20 Lemmings per level (despite only 10 being active on the screen at any time) instead of 60 like in L2. Even then, from my full LP of L3 from last year (that was also the very first time I have ever played L3), I definitely see the game has plenty of potential that unfortunately, like L2, has left a lot of unexplored territory. From what I read of Simon's feedback in this topic, it sounds like you did a great job of filling in those gaps. From another topic, it also sounds like Clam Spammer did a great job here with their custom L3 Egyptian pack as well, though it's only for one tribe rather than all 3 tribes like your custom L3 pack.

In any case, very excited to play the custom L3 stuff in the future and to see its potential unlocked with what you made of it with your pack! I will need to first take some time to prepare and relearn the controls, as I have completely forgotten them as I haven't played any L3 since my LP of the game last year kieran's custom Lemmings stuff is just excellent for which I can definitely recommend others play, with the warning that they're very hard. I'm sure I'll enjoy his custom L3 pack, especially as I love hard levels in the game of Lemmings!  

@jkapp76, @Armani

Thanks both for the kind words and compliment! Yea, I definitely have a much better appreciation of L2 after playing through all of QFK2 and Lost Tribes due to learning so many new tricks and things that I didn't even know was possible with the L2 engine despite its clunkiness. Before this, I always thought L2 was not too bad but also not too good of a game, just meh QFK2 has made me appreciate the game in a whole different way. As namida has stated, L2 is still Lemmings and hence it has the feel of a Lemmings game, albeit one with 51 skills total (which of course includes the classic 8 from L1), even if there are plenty of things it does different from L1, such as the fact you only need to save 1 Lemming in order to progress, and similarly how there's always 60 Lemmings per level minus how many you lose which is the amount you carry for the rest of the tribe.

All this being said, I absolutely look forward to Ste Woz Ere's custom L2 pack for when I get around to playing that in the far future. Perhaps I'll continue to appreciate L2 from playing their custom L2 pack too. Sounds like overall it's many times easier than QFK2, but I'm definitely not going to get overconfident here like I did with kieran's pack! L2 is still very much a foreign game to me due to how I haven't played it anywhere near as much as L1/ONML, the latter two of which are far more familiar to me and having played them many times over in the last 30 years or so My knowledge of the L2 mechanics is still quite shaky in comparison

In any case, I will gladly take on custom Lemmings packs of any difficulty (and suffer! ), especially if it means people like you both can enjoy watching me play them and just to see my level solving skills in action, which I'm more than happy to share my thoughts and strategies with this awesome Lemmings community anytime!      

Happy to have you here!

I can provide full sleeping gear (airbed, sheets, pillow, blanket) for up to 2 guests in the living room. It makes sense to offer this option to guests from the UK first, to allow you to travel light. I recommend that extra guests book a hotel, but I can host a 3rd guest at my place as long as he brings full sleeping gear himself.

-- Simon

Quote from: WillLem on August 17, 2026, 02:29:54 AMtry in the next update.

All right.

In the long term, I'll see if the unsolvability detection produces fringe cases or false positives with cloners/neutrals/... and I'll let you know.

Time yellow/cyan is open question, can't advise yet. Sand is yellow. Cyan for attention makes sense, too.

Quote from: WillLem on August 17, 2026, 02:29:54 AMwe'll do away with the 15 seconds 'warning'. Nobody has piped up in support of that, so... let's get rid of it and see if anyone complains later.

After sleeping over it: The 15-second warning has had a job before. In ancient times, if you didn't see the clock running out, the level would quit to menu by surprise, and you couldn't rewind. Overtime fixes this design, and the leftover 15-second warning hack can now go.

-- Simon