Official Lemmings Forums Level Design Contest #6

[namida]

General Contest Rules

Spoiler

Note that if the rules of the individual contest conflict with these standard rules, the contest-specific rule has priority.

1. Each person may only enter a single level into each contest.
2. All levels entered into a contest must be never-seen-before. This means that they can be completely new levels created for the contest, or not-yet-released levels from a future pack, but you cannot just enter a level from a pack you've already released, even if you modify it slightly. Levels may be released publicly elsewhere once they are no longer eligible to win (ie: the voting doesn't have to have finished, but the level in question must have been eliminated).
3. Anyone caught trying to manipulate the voting or otherwise cheat will be disqualified from the contest, and may be disqualified from future contests. For the avoidance of doubt, voting for your own level is not considered a violation of this rule.
4. Entries must be submitted via private message to the staff member running the contest.
5. The staff member running the contest has the final say on whether or not a level meets the contest's criteria; however, you will be informed within a reasonable timeframe if not, and will be allowed to resubmit an altered version of the level (or an entirely new level) that does meet the criteria.
6. If you are using a graphic set that is not included by default with the engine you're using, you must include a copy of it with your submission.
7. Any Lix levels entered into the contest must be single-player levels.
8. Monetary prizes are payable only via either PayPal or a major cryptocurrency (Bitcoin, Litecoin or Dogecoin; and possibly others on request). You may also ask for a purchase to be made on your behalf with the prize money directly from a website that accepts one of those options, or for it to be donated to a charity.
9. All deadline dates/times are in UTC. If you haven't customized your display settings, this is the time displayed in the top-right corner of the forums.
10. Even if the deadline has passed, entries / updates remain open until 72 hours from the most recent submission (or one week, in the case of initial submissions while less than 4 total submissions have been made). In the case of initial submissions, this only applies to entirely new submissions, not updates to existing submissions (these may still be submitted, but will not cause the deadline to extend).
11. If less than three entries have been received when entries close, the contest is cancelled.
12. During the playing phase, you may submit revised versions of your levels by posting them in the "levels update" topic, as long as the update deadline has not passed. The host of the contest will periodically update the main download, including as soon as possible after the update deadline passes.
13. Any received updates will only be accepted if the updated version still meets the contest criteria.
14. Both first place and second place get a prize; they must choose two different prizes (first place gets first choice), unless a prize is specifically marked that it may be selected by both winners. In the event that only three entries are received, only first place gets a prize.
15. If the staff member organizing the contest enters a level and places first or second, they do not get a prize. The prize is not "passed on", but instead only one prize is awarded for that tournament; however as a special case, if there is only one prize available (due to only three entries being submitted), the prize is passed on to second place.
16. The winning level will be determined by a voteoff after the playing phase has ended, unless the winning criteria is purely objective.

Contest #6

For this contest, your goal is to design a level that does not provide any constructive skills. Constructive skills include:
- Builder
- Platformer (Lix / NeoLemmix)
- Stacker (NeoLemmix)
- Stoner (NeoLemmix)
- Cuber (Lix)

(I'm not overly familiar with the Lix skills, so if I've missed one, let me know.)

"Workaround" methods of providing those skills are also forbidden (such as, for example, making a NeoLemmix level that uses the Instant Pickup Skills gimmick and has builder pickup skills in the level).

For the avoidance of doubt, using non-traditional skills that aren't constructive (such as Walker in Lix / NeoLemmix) is allowed.

Allowed engines: Lemmix, NeoLemmix, Lemmini, SuperLemmini, Lix

Engine-Specific Rules:
NeoLemmix: The Slowfreeze object counts as a "workaround" method, and may not be used.

Timeframe: Entries close 8th August 2015 9th August 2015 at 11:27 PM, subject to general rule #10.
The update deadline will be announced when the playing phase begins, but will be at least 10 days from the start of the playing phase.

The prizes available for this contest are:
- US $10 $12.50
- One month's One and a half month's advertising in the forum's news ticker for a project you are involved in, whether lemmings-related or not, and whether free or not
- Early access to the Ghosts gimmick in NeoLemmix <May be chosen by both winners>
- Your choice for the next contest's rules (within reason)



Entries received: 8
bsmith
Crane
DynaLem
Geoffster
geoo
IchoTolot
mobius
Nepster

[namida]

I'm also going to offer a slight bonus for if a Lix level wins the contest, due to that Lix entries so far have often not fared very well, and many have been the type that have a novel concept but don't end up being overly great levels beyond that. For first place only, if a Lix level achieves it, the winner will get the "7+ entries" prize regardless of the number of entries.

[Crane]

To cover all eventualities, would a "may not contain any tools that produce terrain (e.g. Builder, Stoner etc.)" work?

*wants to vote for "A Break In The Bridge" as his favourite Builder-less level!*

[namida]

Same thing, different wording.

[namida]

Still about a week and a half left to submit your entries to this one!

5 entries so far (plus one attempted entry that was rejected because it used Stoners; no idea if the person intends to modify the level (or submit a different one) still).

[namida]

Just over three days to get entries in (if the deadline doesn't get extended). Six entries so far, but more are always welcome!

[namida]

Deadline has been extended due to new submissions. The deadline is now 9th of August at 11:27 PM. We've also reached 8 entries now.