Author Topic: General Lemmings (Read 22543 times)

Timballisto · « **on:** July 02, 2004, 01:51:52 AM »

General Discussion needed a place for general Lemmings conversation. Here it is.

Andi · « **Reply #1 on:** July 02, 2004, 08:49:16 AM »

Why have Lemming's green hair? ;D

Lemika · « **Reply #2 on:** July 02, 2004, 01:53:37 PM »

Good question. Um, maybe because green seemed like a good color for hair? XD

Timballisto · « **Reply #3 on:** July 04, 2004, 03:56:06 AM »

Maybe they're new generation rebellion lemmings...or they just need to learn how to style their hair...then again, the green hair goes well with their skin and shirt. Imagine lemmings with normal hair...*bleh!*

tumble_weed · « **Reply #4 on:** July 06, 2004, 03:54:05 PM »

because they were swimming too long in the water in the 2nd terrain set x_x

namida · « **Reply #5 on:** July 08, 2004, 01:26:46 AM »

Because Tumbleweed travelled back in time, drew Zogg, a lemming saw it, liked the colour, and hit his head on it. Zogg then came to life and cursed all Lemmings to have green hair. Then Zogg returned to just a drawing.

tumble_weed · « **Reply #6 on:** July 08, 2004, 04:26:28 AM »

...O_o...then Doofus gave them clothing X_X

namida · « **Reply #7 on:** July 08, 2004, 05:16:42 AM »

And it happens they were intelligent creatures as well, until Circle stole all of their intelligence.

Liebatron · « **Reply #8 on:** July 10, 2004, 02:49:24 AM »

we could write a history of the lemming empire. :

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Lemeri · « **Reply #9 on:** July 17, 2004, 01:01:03 AM »

I think Lem'ka already did a few attempts, but I could'nt say for sure...

Lemika · « **Reply #10 on:** July 17, 2004, 12:33:22 PM »

Yes you could, you read them over my shoulder

But those were different. I think.

Anatol · « **Reply #11 on:** July 29, 2004, 04:20:47 AM »

Hey! I drew a picture of a lemming! It's based off of one on the box.

Not bad for MSPaint, eh? B)

Conway · « **Reply #12 on:** July 29, 2004, 05:11:25 PM »

Not bad at all! B)

Anatol · « **Reply #13 on:** July 30, 2004, 04:27:52 AM »

hehe some more lemmings pictures.

which do you like best :

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Mike · « **Reply #14 on:** July 30, 2004, 06:50:55 PM »

Lemmings had green hair because the PC's EGA palette had the first 3 colours of white/blue/green.

Lemmings were only 4 colours (2 bitplanes) so the choice was blue hair/green trousers or green hair/blue trousers.

Boring he!

Andi · « **Reply #15 on:** July 30, 2004, 07:18:55 PM »

I thought it's something like that.

Ice_Eagle91 · « **Reply #16 on:** August 20, 2004, 04:35:46 AM »

I think Lemmings have green hair because it's their style.

Why do Lemmings wear blue suits?

Andi · « **Reply #17 on:** August 20, 2004, 07:51:59 AM »

Quote from: Mike link=1088733112/0#14 date=1091213455

Lemmings had green hair because the PC's EGA palette had the first 3 colours of white/blue/green.

Lemmings were only 4 colours (2 bitplanes) so the choice was blue hair/green trousers or green hair/blue trousers.

Boring he!

:-/

DragonsLover · « **Reply #18 on:** August 25, 2004, 01:28:08 AM »

Why Lemmings and not another rodent?

LemSteven · « **Reply #19 on:** August 25, 2004, 09:42:25 PM »

Quote from: DragonsLover link=1088733112/15#18 date=1093397288

Why Lemmings and not another rodent?

The real lemmings are notorious for running off cliffs and committing suicide (Although I do not believe they do so intentionally). The green-haired Lemmings in the computer game do the same thing. Psygnosis probably had this in mind when they designed the game.

Ice_Eagle91 · « **Reply #20 on:** August 27, 2004, 11:51:49 AM »

Are you ignoring me? I'm asking this question again:

Why do lemmings wear blue suits?

namida · « **Reply #21 on:** August 27, 2004, 01:14:31 PM »

Because four times six equals seventy-two.

Andi · « **Reply #22 on:** August 27, 2004, 01:37:53 PM »

Quote from: Ice_Eagle91 link=1088733112/15#20 date=1093607509

Are you ignoring me? I'm asking this question again:

Why do lemmings wear blue suits?

Mike said it! Do you have problems with reading? It's because of the limitations to the EGA palette. They had no other choice.

Andi · « **Reply #23 on:** September 14, 2004, 04:21:18 PM »

I just found this nice website: http://www.smbhq.com/users/snss/Comics/Comix.htm

Check "The Adventures of Lemmy the Lemming" out.

DragonsLover · « **Reply #24 on:** September 14, 2004, 05:51:20 PM »

Look at that (image taken from the website):

RayLem

The site is really cool!

Juhaz · « **Reply #25 on:** October 17, 2004, 12:05:01 PM »

Quote from: Mike link=1088733112/0#14 date=1091213455

Lemmings had green hair because the PC's EGA palette had the first 3 colours of white/blue/green.

Lemmings were only 4 colours (2 bitplanes) so the choice was blue hair/green trousers or green hair/blue trousers.

Boring he!

I wouldn't be so sure about that.

After all, Lemmings was not born as a PC game, it was originally written for Amiga, with vastly superior graphics capabilities compared to the first primitive PC's.

And Lemmings had the same color scheme there, so technical reasons based on EGA limits imposed much later don't make much sense.

G3K · « **Reply #26 on:** October 17, 2004, 07:25:15 PM »

Mike actually worked on Lemmings, so I'd be inclined to believe him - he's probably talking specifically about the PC version.

Mike · « **Reply #27 on:** November 04, 2004, 09:49:59 PM »

Actually, the first prototype was done on the PC by Russell Kay about a year before the Amiga one even started.

Both games were developed side by side (along with the ST one), and since the Amiga and ST versions had total control over palettes, we were forced to use the PC as the limiting factor.

And yes..... I do know what Im talking about

Andi · « **Reply #28 on:** November 05, 2004, 12:34:00 PM »

Mike, I wanted to ask you something:

In some old magazines you see very often Lemmings-Illustrations. Are they still somehow available as Cliparts or so?

Ah, and if there weren't limitations on the palette, what colour would the lemmings have?

Mike · « **Reply #29 on:** November 05, 2004, 08:33:19 PM »

Do you mean the concept art? There are scans available of them around... just have a search..

Search for "lemmings concept" and use images on google, they'll come up there.

If you look at my first animation.... it was blue hair, and red jump suit... no idea why... I think that was part of t
the default palette of DPaint. I guess it would have been close to that, otherwise, Ive no idea.

Andi · « **Reply #30 on:** November 05, 2004, 10:35:22 PM »

Not the concept art (I only found the two from LU). I mean for example this one. Or this one.

Liebatron · « **Reply #31 on:** January 06, 2005, 02:25:58 AM »

if i'm wrong please tell e buti've taken graphics from lemmings, put 'em in paint, and zoomed in with the magnifying glass and it looks like they have an extremely memory taking graphic of many, many things. so, if they had those graphics, then i don't think they would be worrying much about only having three colors to choose from. then again, if you were making one version that fit computer and amiga, then you might run into some problems such as only three colors that work on both things.... I don't know alot about computers, but i know some. please tell me if i'm wrong about that.

Mike · « **Reply #32 on:** January 08, 2005, 11:16:55 AM »

These drawings were "based" on the con concept art done by Gary Timmons. They've just been updated by other artists based on the original colours etc...

Liebatron · « **Reply #33 on:** January 13, 2005, 01:35:12 AM »

What's concept art and why is it different from other art? :

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?QuErY? · « **Reply #34 on:** April 11, 2005, 04:25:48 PM »

Concept art is pictures to show the artist's ideas so everyone else working on the game knows what they're actually working on. Normal art is just meant to look good.

Author Topic: General Lemmings (Read 22543 times)

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