Level Design Contest #34

[IchoTolot]

Welcome to another contest of the Lemmingsforums! This time the three rules have been picked by kaywhyn.

A few words to new participants and forum members: If you haven't entered before, I strongly encourage you to try - even if you don't win, it's fun to participate; and we have had cases where first-time entrants have won before! There are three choices of rules given, you may enter one level for EACH one of the rules.
You may either use NeoLemmix, or Lix.

RC/experimental NL builds aren't allowed, only the stable version of NL!

If you have more than one entry, they may (but do not have to) be for the same engine. Please make sure you tested your level for basic solvability before submitting and be sure to also submit any custom tileset you are using, so others have no problem playing your level.

Pre contest testing: You can choose 1-2 persons who do a bit of pre-testing for you, so that the biggest backroutes and screw-ups of your levels can be detected before the playing phase. I cannot control this so it's only a guideline, but still I would prefer not everyone knows every level before the playing phase starts.

Here are the rules on how the submission deadlines work:
- Initial submission phase deadline will extend such that it's 72 hours from the time of the last submission, up to the 5th submission (inclusive). After this it no longer changes no matter what.
- Update phase deadline will not extend over the initial dead line!
- Even if you missed the cutoff date for the initial submission phase, late entries are accepted until the update phase ends. There is no penalty for a late entry, beyond that people are less likely to spend as much time on the level before voting begins.

And here is the new ruleset:

Rule 1 (kaywhyn) - Object minimalism:

*  Make a level with the only objects allowed are the entrance and exit. No limit on either and the rest is anything goes.

Rule 2 (kaywhyn) - Happy 35th Birthday, Lemmings!:

* Make a level depicting a birthday cake and 35 Lemmings (as a way to represent the candles, putting in the candles themselves is optional).
* Pre-placed Lemmings and cloners are allowed and count in the total, as long as the total is 35 exactly.
* Save requirement is anything goes.
* The solution needs to involve the cake in some meaningful way.

Rule 3 (kaywhyn) - Multiple rulesets fulfilled!:

* Pick one of the previous contests with 3 rules and make a level that satisfies all 3 of them. There are contest for which this is impossible.
* No mixing between different contests, so stick to the same contest for the ruleset.
* If a rule states "use a new object/skill" simply take an object/skill that was new in the context of that specific contest.
* You can use Proxima's topic for previuos contest's design rules as an rough overview - it goes up to contest #30 right now. For the exact rule details, please look into that contest's topic though.

To make it clear from which contest you took the ruleset, please name your level the following (with XX being the contest number): "User1_Levelname_LDCXX_R3V1".


Submission phase ends November 14th 2026 at 00:00 UTC.

Ruleset in detail again: http://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=2246.0

Send me a personal message with your level/s and if needed tileset/s to participate. It would also be nice to also tell me the rule which each level satisfies.

Please use the following naming format:  User1_Levelname_R3V1.nxlv ---> Level "Levelname" by User1  for Rule 3  Version 1 of the level

Prize selection:

- Pick next contest's rules (the author of each level in the top 3 gets to select a rule)

Entries so far: 0



Rule distribution:

Rule 1 -
Rule 2 -
Rule 3 -

[LemFan]

It's been a while since you've done one of these! Glad to see another one being planned

[Flopsy]

You can use Proxima's topic for previuos contest's design rules as an rough overview - it goes up to contest #30 right now. For the exact rule details, please look into that contest's topic though.

I've added Contests 31-33's Rules in a separate reply at the bottom of this linked topic now.