Lock and Key [Difficulty: Hard]

[92Dexter11]

Hey everyone!

I've created a level pack for NeoLemmix. It's called Lock and Key.




It has a single rank with 22 levels. It is quite difficult in my opinion, on par with LemRunner, if not harder. I would not recommend it for beginners.
Each level varies in difficulty, but all are quite tricky.

The pack is gimmick-y, in the sense that every level starts with only a single lemming, and has a save requirement of one. I do feel as though each level is quite varied and distinct from one another, however.

This level pack is more narrative driven. It tells a story using the preview and postview texts. As such, I recommend playing each level in order if you want to experience the story.

The story is somewhat serious, and is loosely based off of my own struggles with mental health.
It's not a huge downer, as I tried to keep it as light as possible, but it probably won't be suitable for everyone since it does have themes of isolation and abandonment.
As such, if you don't feel like engaging with the story, that's totally fine.

The story text doesn't really impact or spoil the pack's gameplay all that much, so feel free to skip the texts if you aren't interested in the story, or if it's not doing anything for you.

The pack requires the graphics for 'Lemmings Faithful', as well as 'Let's Go More Faithful', so make sure you have the latest versions downloaded if you haven't done so already:
https://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=6713.0
https://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=7026.0


Here are some screenshots:

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The pack uses custom UI/menu graphics, hence the large file size.

It also utilises music from various games, or licensed under creative commons: (Reveal spoiler for full credits)

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The following songs are credited to Chris Zabriskie:
'CGI Snake' and 'Oxygen Garden' from the album 'Divider'

'Thanks for Trying to Rescue Me But You've Made Things Worse' from the album 'Angie's Sunday Service'
'An Extraordinary Camera Was Custom Built and Used Only Once' from the album 'Abandon Babylon'

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
If you enjoy his work, please consider supporting him by purchasing his albums:
https://chriszabriskie.com/index.html
https://chriszabriskie.bandcamp.com/

The following songs are credited to Kevin Macleod:
"Thunderbird"
"Equatorial Complex"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
https://incompetech.com/

Additional credits:
'Rain and Surf' and 'Oriental' by Bjørn Lynne, from the games 'Worms Armageddon' and 'Worms World Party', respectively.
'Cobash' and 'Hengist' by Robert L. Euvino from the game 'Space Colony'.
'Hell3' by Tim Folin and Bjørn Lynne, from the PSP version of 'Lemmings'.

(A copy of these credits, 'credits.txt' is also available in the pack itself, both in the 'level' folder and the 'music' folder)

I'd also like to give special thanks to my brother, tan x dx, for assisting me with the story.

This pack took me a long time to make, and was very rewarding to do so.

I hope you enjoy it, and I look forward to all the inevitable backroutes that the NL community will undoubtedly find!

Let me know what you think, or if there are any problems.

Thank you all, and I hope you enjoy!


Link to the level pack:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dgfw8h3ssyg13i5hdgca0/LockAndKey_V1_1.zip?rlkey=wtbhdotxcwnp7dcg0c4zpdy8u&st=sxoor6ky&dl=1

Link to the replay solutions:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/crkpaqj7g2d7ay8kga6an/LockAndKey_ReplayV1.zip?rlkey=56wzfn1nua0j0ji63q9mxnfgp&st=gph86gvg&dl=1


UPDATE - V1.1 - added success.ogg and failure.ogg for level completion with jingles enabled