Simon will stream Level of the Year 2025, Wed July 1, 2026

[Simon]

Third stream will be tomorrow, Wednesday, June 10th, starting 17:00 UTC. This will be 19:00 CEST, 18:00 BST, and around noon in America.

-- Simon

[Simon]

Wed 10 stream is over!

-- Simon

[Silken Healer]

Recording will remain for 14 days at: https://www.twitch.tv/simonnaar

Do I have your consent to download your VODs and upload them somewhere so people can watch them after the 14 days are up?

[Simon]

Download the VODs as you like.

I'll have to make up my mind about rehosting. In all strictness, I play background music from random sources without permission. Unsure yet if I want that on Youtube.

-- Simon

[Guigui]

I watched the stream and can confirm that the solution to Blues Walk With Me is perfectly intended. Very good collective by all of you there  
You went through all the reflexion phases I wanted to happen when making the level, including what the heck is this button for ?, and it was a real joy to watch. Thank you for pointing out all strategies and the use of all those blues pieces I set here and there.

The only point you missed makes the execution easier :

Spoiler

if you assign climber to the 1st lemming right at the start of the level, then you can let it cycle in the button area to wait for the correct opportunity to set the blocker. Then it is easier to work on the distance between 1st and last lemming.

[Simon]

Guigui, thanks for the feedback!

Yeah, execution with our suboptimal way was still bearable enough that we nailed it after a few tries. I assume that, had we not solved it like that, we would have tried things similar to your spoiler.


The levels yet unsolved are 1 by Giga (Palace of Ice), 3 by kaywhyn, and 6 by Dexter. Guigui backroute-fixed his So Many Spikes, we'll see if we have time to return to that.

The next stream was Sunday, June 21.

-- Simon

[Guigui]

Guigui backroute-fixed his So Many Spikes, we'll see if we have time to return to that.

This is the new version of So Many Spikes, also available in the current Save One pack.
Not sure if IchoTolot needs to bother updating the LOTY pack that close to the end of the playing phase.

[Simon]

Stream is over! Recording will remain for 14 days at: https://www.twitch.tv/simonnaar

We played 2 levels by Dexter, the remaining 2 by Kaywhyn, Ice Palace by Giga, and So Many Spikes by Guigui. We backrouted Kaywhyn's Oh Yes Molten Problem.

Left unsolved: 3 by Dexter, 1 by Kaywhyn (Oh No Molten Problem).

-- Simon

[mobius]

missed another one; I was at work, I will rewatch it.

[Simon]

Playing phase will end: June 26th 2026

But we don't care, do we? We'll stream all the nominated levels! It doesn't matter if Icho conducts the first poll next week, we'll go through all the entries for 2025.

The next stream will be on Wednesday, July 1, starting 17:00 UTC = 19:00 CEST.
https://www.twitch.tv/simonnaar

We have 6 unsolved levels to play:
Dexter's Prologue
Dexter's Ring of Fire
Dexter's Subjugation
Dexter's Unstable Egress
kaywhyn's Oh Yes! A Hardcore Molten Problem (re-solve, kaywhyn fixed our backroute)
kaywhyn's Oh No! Another Hardcore Molten Problem

These streams have helped me back into NL and Lix. I'm happy how I've stuck to it these weeks.

-- Simon