Hi I'm darkshoxx, nice to meet you all.
Quick disclaimer, as I'm going to talk about a focus on streaming on twitch, I am aware that this post may be interpreted as advertizing of my channel. I hope this does not break any rules. I will not be posting unsolicited links.
My Motivation:
Some time last year I played through the original DOS Lemmings and Lemmings Xmas game. I stream on twitch and am looking for a "stream warmup" game to play for the first 30 minutes of the stream while everyone is joining in. This used to be "Prose & Codes" which neatly breaks down into quick individual levels with potential viewer participation. And it's those two key features that I'm looking for. My current plan therefore is to begin streams by playing Levels/Levelpacks of Lemmings, either directly taken from the internet, or (and this is the part where it gets interesting) made by viewers, either regular or newcomer. In other words, at the beginning of the stream I'd like to give the option to viewers to submit a level(pack) and then play that.
My Goals:
Given what I wrote, this means
1) both me and the interested viewers need to become somewhat proficient with the usage of the level editors available
2) I need to be able to offer to play whatever level(pack) including styles etc. a user might submit. Even if I was to railroad my community to a specific editor, I'd still need to be able to accept levels made by anyone in every editor. But that's a long term goal.
My current strategy:
I gotta start somewhere, so I found this video tutorial of neolemmix
(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asE8U9eZ_CY)
together with links to the neolemmix player and editor. This appears to be as decent of a starting point as anything, and my plan is to go through that on stream and explore how the basics work.
I also tried to follow the instructions here:
https://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=3233.0 and start levelpacks with this today, with some degree of success.
Here's the thing:
That's just me. That's my best guess on how to start things. I'd like to know if there's anything obvious I'm missing, a better angle to approach this from and/or general advice on how to get started.
Looking forward to your responses