Quote from: RubiX on May 26, 2020, 03:03:59 AM
Ok, so I spent hours over the past days remaking the Lemmings & Oh No! More Lemmings 2player maps in Lix.
I mentioned the reasons on another thread, its mainly about true nostalgia in the original maps and also in the original style of 2man playability.
Some of these I was able to use Proxima's work on the lemmings maps that he did with modifications/expansions closer to the originals, and others I completely remade.
I also re-made the 10 ONML maps from scratch.
So Thanks Proxima for having some of the work that I was able to use. Especially Pipe dream, that certainly saved me time on that one, you had the main area already sorted out
I wanted to get these remakes as close to the original maps in feel / playability & visual themes/colors as possible.
Also the maps use only the original 8 abilities (only difference being the bomber change in lix)
Steel is placed only in the original locations also. Hatch digging was actually a LOT of fun if you could get away with it when there's only 2 players. Its always a good strategy to be checking on incoming attackers moving towards your entrance, we always felt it's easily preventative if you are paying attention. Yet always hillarious if you actually pull it off without the other realizing.
Ive played against my brother while he was here yesterday, and he feels the maps seem as good to play as the originals, so i'm glad they have worked out as planned.
I would say the hardest to recreate were:
Lemmings - Crystal Cavern Mark II Visually and Playability is not too close to the original unfortunately due to trying to replicate the spiderweb mess.
Lemmings - Graffiti The way I recreated some of the 'graffiti' is obviously visually different, but map plays just as good.
ONML - The only way out Trying to find a way to recreate the 'bubble visuals' that onml has was challenging, but I came up with weird solutions. Not the best, but its ok.
Also, trying to recreate the 'crystal' look was hard. As you will notice, I mainly used snow in those maps. That is all I could think that looked decent enough.
Here's a link to my hidden imgur page showing the remakes next to the originals:
https://imgur.com/a/IpnWTe8
If people are interested in playing these in their 'original nostalgic' way in Lix i'll add a download link for them. Otherwise this is just something me and my brother really wanted
Rubix
Funny I came across your awesome work here as I was about to request porting of the original Lemmings levels myself, though I suppose that's another story
I really appreciate the work you've put into recreating these levels! I'd rather play these on Lix than on the same machine via a DOS Emulator, and I've heard there's sound issues with those also. For Single Player, I'd also recommend "Lemmins" which is a very nice re-creation of Lemmings done in Blitz: https://archive.org/details/Lemmings_Lemmins_Blitz_Lemmings
I'd like some download links to your recreations please, I'd love to play the original 2-player levels as I don't think I ever did back in the day!