[Android] Lemmings-like game (WIP)

[LJLPM]

Thank you! Yes, I enjoyed publishing updates : it was very motivating to see the game take shape
About the missing screenshots: yes, it's too bad they disapeared (the free online service I used to host the game's pictures removed most of the links )

[LJLPM]

Now that the development of jLevelBuilder is pretty much finished, here are some news about the Android game : I've decided to "port" the Android game (Java) to Unity (C#) in order to help me design a better UI for the game.
My limited knowledge in Android dev didn't allow me to design the clean UI I wished for this project. Thanks to Unity, I hope to achieve this goal (Unity has a lot of cool plugins which could help me to create a better game).
I don't really know where I'm going to with this decision, but I couldn't help thinking "what would the result be if I tried to create the game using Unity ?"... Well, we'll see...
I hope to be able to re-use a lot of stuff from the original Java/Android project, but porting the game to Unity is not an easy task...
Below is the 1st result of my new work (don't expect too much right now: it's just the beginning (load levels), and there are no Lemmings and no Objects yet, Eraser tiles don't work, Up/Down and Left/Right modifiers don't work yet, etc...)

[WillLem]

This is looking great. Nice work, keep it up!

[LJLPM]

Good news here!

I'm still slowly working on the Android game, and in order to ease the level creation process (+ to help me debugging the code), I'm working on a new feature :
- make the game run on computers (PC/Mac/Linux, coded using Java like jLevelBuilder), with the possibility to launch levels directly from jLevelBuilder (being able to seamlessly create, load and run newly-created ".ini" levels will be convenient !)

As you may already know jLevelBuilder and my Android game use Lemmini-compliant ".ini" level files.
Below are 2 screenshots of a level from Turrican's Superlemmini project: version 1.02 of "All that a Basher can Do"

- level loaded in jLevelBuilder for edition (I've just directly loaded the ".ini" level file without any modification):


- and then the level running (it's animated) in the game engine (PC computer)


Now, I have to drop some Lemmings in the level but it shouldn't be too hard since I already have the Android game engine pretty much ready (coded in Java, too).
Controls are also lacking now, but I'll see that later as I would like to be able to read Lemmini-compliant replays first.
Moreover, from a Java point of view, I've learnt a lot since this project has started and I'm also improving/reworking the code to make it better.

To make it short, project is not dead and it will be freely available on computers before the Android version is released (it will help to test the engine in a more efficient way).
And if my game engine is clean enough, I would like to port the game to Unity too (cf. my previous post)

[LJLPM]

Level masks are now fully working Everything is ready for dropping some Lemmings in levels.
The next step is to import/handle the Android game engine and make some Lemmings fall, walk and bounce against walls


(on the screenshot above, I applied some color layers (in-game) to better show the level mask in use)

[LJLPM]

First Lemming has just dropped (falling + walking + reversing walk direction when hitting a wall)


(note: on this screenshot, there's a pink layer applied on actual Steel items)

[WillLem]

Exciting stuff! Will this essentially play as "touchscreen Lemmings"? If so,

What are the chances of an iOS port?