Let's chill out a little bit with all the various topics. It's really good to see that you're continuing to develop your skills in game development - and I want to say, you should not be too disheartened if not all your projects go anywhere. If you spend a week trying things out for a project, then abandon it, but learnt some new things while working on it - that time wasn't wasted; it became an important part of the path to becoming able to make advanced, full-blown, high quality projects. I know for sure that when I was learning, I half-made a LOT of abandoned trash... but in the process of making that trash, I learnt many skills that I use to this very day. Not to mention, I had fun doing it at the time.

I'm closing this topic - but that's not meant to be discouragement on your project itself, nor the idea of customizable lemmings or including other lemmings if people choose to offer some. All I'm wanting you to take away from this topic closing is - there's no need for several different topics for every idea related to your project; you can post these ideas in the project's main topic. You might not get much attention at first, especially with the record of vague ideas and abandoned projects, but if over time you can prove that this one is different and it's going somewhere, and you're putting genuine effort into it and trying to make it good (as opposed to simply "anything that sort-of works is good enough"), you'll no doubt get more people interested. There are numerous cases out there in various fan communities of people who've started off like how you have, with many over-ambitious ideas and abandoned projects, who have eventually gone on to create genuinely great works.

You're going to run into frustrations no matter what engine you use. As I mentioned:

Quote from: namida on December 06, 2025, 06:44:27 AMAs long as you understand that it will take effort, it will be hard work at times (but there'll be a lot of fun seeing your work come to life, too), and it will be a long time before any major project gets to the point where you can even see, let alone really share, any results - you can get there.

This applies no matter what engine, programming language, or other tool you use. Indeed, this applies to creative (and other) projects of almost any kind, not just game design. There are only two ways to get what you want in terms of creative products without putting in a significant amount of effort, and both of them make it much harder to get exactly what you want, and also take away a significant extent of your ability to truly call it your creation (whether that matters depends if your goal is "I want this to exist", versus "I want to make this") - those two ways being either "pay someone else to do it", or "generate it with AI".

If this helps it get added, I've created a version of :geek: with a more typical, neutral glasses colour.

RetroLemmini 2.4 addendum

Fixed 2 holiday levels (thanks to ericderkovits for spotting these errors). If you already downloaded 2.4, here they are (just drop them into resources\levels\4_xmas). Otherwise, go ahead and update to 2.4 as normal.

so i want custom lemmings for project L4. you can go into anything and customize the lemming to make you or any lemming you want. 10 outstanding lems will get put in the game, but you can keep making lems after that.
doesnt need to be perfect! anything will do if its good enough.

ALERT! ALERT!
just started using ct.js as the new engine
it uses full block so no gamemaker level yapping demanding and screaming

Quote from: namida on December 06, 2025, 06:44:27 AMThis is a bit ambitious, but it's a lot more realistic of a project than a full-blown OS.

I hope you understand that it will take time and effort to actually make this - but there are many users on these forums who wanted to make something, didn't really know what they were doing, put in the effort to learn, and eventually made something. As long as you understand that it will take effort, it will be hard work at times (but there'll be a lot of fun seeing your work come to life, too), and it will be a long time before any major project gets to the point where you can even see, let alone really share, any results - you can get there. If you need some inspiration, take a look at WillLem - he didn't know the first thing about programming when he joined here, nowdays he's capable of coding in multiple languages and producing very good results.

GameMaker is definitely a significant step up from Scratch and similar sites. While arguably more "basic" than programming languages, GameMaker is powerful enough that many good games you can buy on Steam etc (and even sometimes, consoles) are made in it. If you're finding that GameMaker works well for you, I very much encourage you to stick with it and continue learning and improving your skills in it. I believe that for myself, a similar app - Click & Create - was instrumental in my abilities getting to where they are now, even though it was relatively "simplified".

namida, 1, bring the original alpha pfp back
2, im thinking of switching to turbowarp or something because game maker keeps screaming

EDIT: Download link fixed!

WillLem's Xmas SUPERLEMMINGS has now been updated to v1.02 following the release of RetroLemmini 2.4, which includes updates to the xmas style. You can get the latest version of the pack here

Please note that, as of this update, the pack requires RetroLemmini 2.4 or later to run. Compatibility with an earlier version of RetroLemmini or (Super)Lemmini(Too) cannot be guaranteed. Replays made with earlier versions may also not be compatible.

So, fire it up and enjoy it as a fresh new treat for Holidays 2025!

Mine or Silken's is fine. Let's try and get those :geek: and :shrug: emojis included as well.

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