Thanks for your cooperation, GigaLem and WillLem (in the sense that you seem to be fine, at least in principle, with people recolouring your sprites
) And special thanks to WillLem for even providing the exact hex codes!
Based on that, I would add the following ideas:
Lara Croft (Lemminas-based)
Skin: skin-tone, Clothes: green / teal, Hair: brown, Builder Sack: brown (like the bagpack)Nepster has made two famous levels called "Tomb Raider". I think those levels should be playable with fitting sprites!
Pippi Longstocking (Lemminas-based)
Skin: white (default), Clothes: bright green (like athletes), Hair: redThese would be a special type of Swedish sprite.
Although they could also simply be regarded as female versions of the Irish / Acid lemmings. Likewise, if you set the clothes back to default blue, they'd be female Highland lemmings.
Indian Lemmings (default-based)
Skin: like my African lemmings, Clothes: orange, Hair: green (default)I have a couple of levels in Lemmings World Tour that are either located in India ("Taj-a, Taj-a, Taj-a, Taj me", "Kashmir") or make reference to it ("Yoga"), as well as one set in neighbouring Bangladesh (Bang-a-Boomerang). There's also a famous song, Krypteria's "Liberatio", that is kind of tied to the Tsunami that hit Sri Lanka and other nearby nations in December 2004 (similarly to Enya's "Only Time" and 9/11). Tamils (=people from Sri Lanka) often look quite similar to Indians and therefore frequently get confused for them. Either way, the yellow clothes my African lemmings are wearing seem unfitting. Orange is present in both the Indian and the Sri Lankan flag.
Of course, one could set the hair to black, as well - but if the other colours already serve to give a sense of the geographic origin of those lemmings, I'm happy for every type of sprite that gets to keep its iconic green lemmings hair!
Not to be confused with:
Native American / Amerindian Lemmings (Millas-based)
Skin: again, not "orange" (in contrast to the Trump sprites! ), but a slightly darker tone than default, slightly red-ish, Clothes: brown (default), Hair: blackI tried to create an Amerindian tileset in Old Formats, I just never completed it. For example, the exit was a recolouring of the tent from the L2 Outdoor tileset. Having fitting sprites available would be a nice incentive to pick up on that again!
Additionally, acknowledging that those supposed "feathers" are actually ears
:
Elvish Lemmings (Millas-based OR Lemminas-based)
Skin: white (default), Clothes: dark green, Hair: yellow, Builder Sack: blueElves usually have pointed ears AND long hair, therefore, I can imagine such recolourings for both of the aforementioned custom-shaped lemming sprites you made. One could even make "Christmas Elves", Santa's little helpers, by applying the same colour scheme to the X-Mas sprites.
Speaking of X-Mas sprites:
Arab Lemmings (X-Mas based)
Skin: L2 Beach / L2 Shadow, Clothes and Hat: white, Hair: blackThose are supposed to look like sheikhs, or like Beduin nomads in the desert. It's also easy enough to create female versions of these, using the same sprites...
Skin: L2 Beach / L2 Shadow, Clothes and Hat: black, Hair: blackAnd just like that, you have lemmings wearing a Nikab!
Monk Lemmings (X-Mas based)
Skin: white (default), Clothes and Hat: brown, Hair: green (default)Again, a nice design for Castle levels - lemmings in a monastery, wearing appropriate clothes!
Now that we do have Lemminas, that only makes it seem more like the default lemmings are male (which would be fitting, because when it comes to soldiers, just like with lemmings, guess who's more "expendable" for evolution...
). With Monk lemmings, you can be absolutely sure they are celibate!
Great idea Strato - I'd love to see these in action if you get a full game together with them!
I'm planning to make excessive use of them in my upcoming pack Lemmings, Drugs, and Rock 'n Roll!
Because that pack is going to have geography-based levels again. Once I've made all of these recolourings, I might also add them to the appropriate levels from Lemmings World Tour in hindsight (which is only going to work in the New-Formats version, of course).
For example, I have already added my yellow-pants African Lemmings to the Lemmings World Tour level "Diggas in Paris" (go figure
) from the Diva rank - I think also to Toto's "Africa", which is on the Legend rank, and to "Waka Waka" on the Professional rank. I think I forgot to add them to "I like to move it, move it!" though, which is located in Madagascar... one thing I have to remember for the next update!
Lemmings Hall of Fame, meanwhile, will have to stick to the sprites from the respective L2: The Tribes tilesets, in order to maintain the feeling of that L2 authenticity. Likewise, Lemmings Open Air basically only features default lemming sprites, because it's supposed to look very much like classic lemmings.
some ideas I probably would've left them unsaid.
If you're referring to the Naked Lemmings here, that concept could of course also be applied to any other sprite... ^^ As long as they have a different skin tone or hair colour than default, because the clothes would obviously become irrelevant, or rather identical with whatever the colour for the skin tone is.
For example, take the L2 Beach sprites and make the clothes identical to the colour of the head --> voilà: now you have lemmings from the Naturism beach!
Do the same thing for the Lemminas --> welcome to Lemmings Baywatch!
Or we simply call them "Brazilian Lemmings", coming straight from a carnival parade.And then, finally, when my aforementioned yellow-pants Lemmings show up... but without those pants... all the regular default lemmings are probably going to hide in shame...