I have no preference between WillLem's santa and Silken's santa. Among these two, I'll put what others want.

In posts, both santas will look the same to me anyway. On this principle alone, we can already rework or toss 10-20 existing smileys.

-- Simon

Before you add it I made this alternate version, what does everyone else think?

is relevant and easy to see. I'll add it as :santa:, not as :xmas:. Both are short and clear, but :santa: is more precise.

The point of the excercise is to familiarize myself with the smiley management. I've never implemented my 2019 ideas and ccx was the only admin to add anything. I promised to be a groundskeeper first and to take good care of your lemmings, and uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

I make no statement yet about all the other backlogged ideas here.

-- Simon

Thanks for the quick resolution!

This 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".

I was just about to mention this from your post in the "[RELEASE][2.4 UPDATE] RetroLemmini - A brand new version of Lemmini for 2025!" thread before you said so yourself. If I may say so, I really like this one. It's probably the best one out of :shrug: :geek: and :xmas:.

Another Lemoji suggestion (see attached) - :xmas:

Also, a reminder about :shrug: and :geek: (quick link).

Version 2.4 update:

A little earlier than planned, here's 2.4 which addresses a couple of glaring UI bugs, and ensures that the Holiday levels are fully updated in plenty of time for Christmas!

Holiday Levels

• The exit has been corrected in all levels; previously, the top part of the Christmas pudding was 4px lower than it should have been, leading to misaligned candles. The exit is now a single image in the xmas style, so all exits now appear as they should (and, are correctly positioned following the update!).

• All holiday levels have new music! There are now 8 tracks in total.

• Blizzard 3 Check Your Hints! now has fake exits, as per the original level.

Hints!

The real exit is the middle one (7th from either left or right)!

Styles

• Composited all split image objects (all exits, Rock chameleon trap, etc.) into a single image. Where possible (for backwards compatibility), the original image has been replaced. In all other cases, it's been added to the style as an additional image.

• Added additional pieces to all OG styles in preparation for cross-compatibility with NeoLemmix/SuperLemmix styles.

• Updated Xmas Floater sprite - the umbrella is now themed on a Christmas tree, complete with twinkling lights!

UI Features

• Bugfix - "Time taken" and "skills used" stats are no longer displayed on the debriefing (postview) screen if the level was not solved; this prevents a visual glitch which caused these values to be displayed as nonsensical strings.

• Bugfix - Missing "floater_lemming.png" image is now included with the download (although, it still isn't actually used anywhere in the menu - suggestions welcome as to a possible use for it!)

A reminder of what's new as of 2.0.

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Get the latest version here.

so im making a spiritual lemmings 4, but my lemmings feel too stiff. prob provide image later.
you can also use this topic for other lemming animation quirks or a full video of all the lemming touch traps.

lem os dead
namida you can rest now that this stupid ambitious mess is dead