LOTY 2024 Results (Winner: "Save Our Souls" & "Encased Exit Door")

[IchoTolot]

LOTY 2024 has finally ended and the winners are:

Dodochacalo's "Save Our Souls"

&

Mobiethian's "Encased Exit Door"

Congratulations to Dodochacalo and Mobiethian! I will contact you soon regarding the price of 10 USD.

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Third place goes to: Armani's "Caffeine Addiction"

See you soon in LOTY 2025!

[Pieuw]

Well done everybody and congrats to the winners

[Mobiethian]

Excellent job to all level authors for their amazing work! I am so very happy to have won along side Dodochacalo, it was a really great time. Even though I kept telling everyone that I wouldn't win anyway, but it's all for good fun. I'd like to thank everyone for the support and really believing in me. Never forget, anybody can do anything that they truly desire. I believe this wholeheartedly.

Congrats Dodochacalo! It's an honor to be a contest winner with you.

[Simon]

Congratulations to all the authors!

Wonderful sceneries and some excellent puzzles. I've played more NL than in many years before, enough to finally file some annoyances against CE that I had known for years from NL.

kaywhyn's videos helped me judge the remaining levels that I didn't play. Thanks!

Pieuw's A Tad Rad: I expected this to make it to the final round. Privately, I discussed with Icho:

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Simon: I liked the long bashing at the left side, very nice routing.
Icho: What? The basher on the left side is old hat. The magic is about the blocker on the right side.
Simon: After the nice basher, I didn't pay attention anymore!

Strato's The Lem-Catcher's Song wins the prize for the best counterintuitive moment among the levels that I solved myself:

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The digger must be as long as possible, even though you need only the top of the hole later and lemmings keep splatting until the digger has finished.

-- Simon

[kaywhyn]

Congratulations to all the authors!

Agreed, congrats to all whose levels were nominated for LOTY this year, and same thing to Dodochacalo and Mobiethian for being LOTY co-winners!

kaywhyn's videos helped me judge the remaining levels that I didn't play. Thanks!

No problem, and thank you for streaming my "Snow Way!" level! I meant to reply to your thoughts on the LOTY levels in your LOTY stream topic, but I'll do it here. I did get a chance to watch your stream of the level before the video wasn't available anymore, and even though it ultimately was a no solve from you, I will say it was a wonderful effort, all things considered! Indeed, I now see that the beginning area is what really trips players up on the level, and you and one other user who streamed the level have made me realized how very badly I underestimated its difficulty. As such, I have now upranked the level from the third to the fourth rank for my upcoming Lemmings Memories pack. Thanks again for the feedback!

Another thing in common is that players, including yourself, have been able to correctly spot the required

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builder/miner combo

very quickly, and so the biggest question is how to achieve it while still having the necessary skills later on to do so!

Strato's The Lem-Catcher's Song wins the prize for the best counterintuitive moment among the levels that I solved myself:

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The digger must be as long as possible, even though you need only the top of the hole later and lemmings keep splatting until the digger has finished.

Glad you enjoyed Strato's level! Yes, I want to confirm that both levels of Stratos' that were nominated for LOTY come from his Lemmings Hall of Fame pack, and all levels have titles where the author listed is the singer of the song that's referenced in the level title. This is simply due to Lemmings Hall of Fame being a musically themed level pack, just like his previous two level packs, Lemmings Open Air and Lemmings World Tour, which did something similar with the author listed being the singer of the song referenced in the level title.

Regarding Lem-Catcher Song, it originally had a flamethrower, but in my pre-testing of the pack, Strato was given the feedback to remove it, as this way it makes it less clear what needs to be done, but also

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the worker Lemming is dead (at least if he wasn't a floater) anyway if you don't dig at the top of the pillar, since that is a splat fall without the flamethrower