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Offline Strato Incendus

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Your signature level design elements
« on: March 23, 2018, 03:09:43 PM »
This is a thread for every "wizard to share some of their secret tricks" :D : Certain things you like to put in your levels / certain skill combinations you like to demand from the player on a regular basis.

Rather than spoiling solutions for individual levels, this may provide a general insight into the mind of each level creator, so that whenever you are playing a pack by a particular level designer, you can look here to find some hint about how the level designer thinks in general, to maybe get a different inspiration for what might be a possible solution.

I'll start, and then you're going to see what I mean :) .

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A "Hard-for-Strato" level would therefore probably include:
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« Last Edit: March 24, 2018, 12:36:24 AM by Strato Incendus »
My packs so far:
Lemmings World Tour (New & Old Formats), my music-themed flagship pack, 320 levels - Let's Played by Colorful Arty
Lemmings Open Air, my newest release and follow-up to World Tour, 120 levels
Paralems (Old Formats), a more flavour-driven one, 150 levels
Pit Lems (Old Formats), a more puzzly one, 100 levels - Let's Played by nin10doadict
Lemmicks, a pack for (very old) NeoLemmix 1.43 full of gimmicks, 170 levels

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Re: Your signature level design elements
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2018, 04:25:50 PM »
Nice idea for a thread here :thumbsup: especially seeing how lovely it is that everyone seems to have their own style when it comes to making levels, and everyone brings something different and unique to the table.

I'm going to follow the format of your original post here:

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Re: Your signature level design elements
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2018, 05:31:46 PM »
I love this idea for a thread! Let me put in my 2 cents.

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My Youtube channel where I let's play games with family-friendly commentary:
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My Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/colorfularty

My levelpack: SubLems
For New formats NeoLemmix: https://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=4942.0
For Old formats NeoLemmix: http://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=2787.0
For SuperLemmini: http://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=2704.0

My levelpack: ArtLems
For New formats NeoLemmix: https://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=4583.0

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Re: Your signature level design elements
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2018, 09:12:36 PM »
It's interesting to see what people notice as their own signature level building styles vs. what other people perceive as typical of that person.

For example, Colorful Arty also likes to...
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My packs so far:
Lemmings World Tour (New & Old Formats), my music-themed flagship pack, 320 levels - Let's Played by Colorful Arty
Lemmings Open Air, my newest release and follow-up to World Tour, 120 levels
Paralems (Old Formats), a more flavour-driven one, 150 levels
Pit Lems (Old Formats), a more puzzly one, 100 levels - Let's Played by nin10doadict
Lemmicks, a pack for (very old) NeoLemmix 1.43 full of gimmicks, 170 levels

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Re: Your signature level design elements
« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2018, 09:38:54 PM »
It was very interesting to hear your thoughts on my design preferences Strato. My reactions to your choices:

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My Youtube channel where I let's play games with family-friendly commentary:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiRPZ5j87ft_clSRLFCESQA

My Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/colorfularty

My levelpack: SubLems
For New formats NeoLemmix: https://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=4942.0
For Old formats NeoLemmix: http://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=2787.0
For SuperLemmini: http://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=2704.0

My levelpack: ArtLems
For New formats NeoLemmix: https://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=4583.0

Offline GigaLem

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Re: Your signature level design elements
« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2018, 09:56:18 PM »
mine is short so here you go

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what is "Hard-for-Giga"?
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Re: Your signature level design elements
« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2018, 10:42:46 PM »
My signatures:
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Hard for nin10 would be:
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Re: Your signature level design elements
« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2018, 10:45:46 PM »
What the hell, I'll bite on this...

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Offline Strato Incendus

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Re: Your signature level design elements
« Reply #8 on: March 24, 2018, 12:34:46 AM »
With regard to disarmers, since several people mentioned them as difficult with regards to coming up with creative solutions:

Most of the levels I created which I consider to feature "intelligent" use of disarmers turned out as stalling levels: You have only one disarmer who needs to disable a lot of traps, so you need to keep the crowd busy in the meantime (like in "Athletic aesthetics" and "A trip to Yugoslemmia" from Pit Lems or "Do not fear" from Lemmicks). Also, sometimes the disarmer is indeed the easy part, but you have to get it first, because it lies around somewhere as a pickup skill (like in "Have you seen my screwdriver?" from Paralems).
My packs so far:
Lemmings World Tour (New & Old Formats), my music-themed flagship pack, 320 levels - Let's Played by Colorful Arty
Lemmings Open Air, my newest release and follow-up to World Tour, 120 levels
Paralems (Old Formats), a more flavour-driven one, 150 levels
Pit Lems (Old Formats), a more puzzly one, 100 levels - Let's Played by nin10doadict
Lemmicks, a pack for (very old) NeoLemmix 1.43 full of gimmicks, 170 levels

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Re: Your signature level design elements
« Reply #9 on: March 24, 2018, 09:10:39 PM »
I don't know if I can really categorize things as "I like to" vs "I don't like to".


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Re: Your signature level design elements
« Reply #10 on: March 25, 2018, 04:47:13 PM »
This is a great topic :) I'll do my best with it...

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Re: Your signature level design elements
« Reply #11 on: April 09, 2018, 08:46:53 AM »
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