Level pack topic

[Shvegait]

I prefer to make challenging levels because if they are too easy then they are boring.

Then why are almost all of your levels very easy, most of them easier versions of levels in the original Lemmings or from other people's packs?   ::

I try to add as many extra tasks as I can without adding in backroutes.. especially for levels where the solution uses very few tools. Backroute checking becomes a much bigger concern... but if you can get away with it, it's worth it! Especially when your added tools *seem* like they could be used in a solution but are actually not needed. I think I've used this tip in about 3 of my levels...

[JM]

I have no idea but my next levels that come out are to be more challenging than too easy.

Insane Steve's levels are well challenging. Especially Rhapsody,The Razor's Edge,Wrong Way,Mental Process,It's Hamemr Time,The Nifty Fifty,Seperation Anxiety,NO MAS!,A Beast IV of a level and many more names.

You have some challenging levels like Tempus Fugit,Impasse,Diffusion and Mining Co-Operation. I hope your next level pack is challenging. I really am looking forward to that.

[JM]

Well Tumble Weed I am glad you have nearly finished TWBESTOF.dat

Multiple Entrances are a good feature in most levels. You do have some nice looking levels I have to say and I like a lot of them.

[JM]

Is TWBESTOF.dat able to be released yet?

[tumble_weed]

gah not yet...I have a little Uni assignment due Tuesday which I need to finish more urgently than my lemmings pack

[JM]

Oh! That's ok then

I've been checking through JM16.dat and I'm trying to make it more challenging by reducing time limit,number of skills and increasing the number of lemmings needed to be saved.

[Leviathan]

The thing I do before I finish a level is to give it a test-run with a lot off skills and then look at how many I needed to do my particular level and/or trick,including the time needed to finish the level and the maximum possible percentage.

This way I also can detect non-working exits or traps

[JM]

Good idea. I should do the same. I have gone through all the levels of my upcoming levelpak and all the exits and traps work.

If you download oldbutgo.dat ,most of the levels have non-working exits and traps. The rest of the level designs are quite good. Are you working on any levels yet?

Upside-down exits don't always work. I basically have all the levelpaks I made or downloaded in a zip file that I could upload.

I can't belive one of my levels is called Outro. Having the first level of a pack called Intro and the last called Outro sounds like a really cool idea.

[Timballisto]

What is Uni???

[Mindless]

@JM: I believe the correct word would be EXtro not OUTro.
@Tim: University, I think... I could be wrong.

[JM]

Extro? I have never heard of that word
The last track of some cds is usually called Outro but I don't know what Extro is. Uni also means University.

[Proxima]

Yeah....... intro is short for introduction, which comes from the Latin "introduco"; only the beginning "in" looks like the English word "in" so they made the opposite "outro". Actually, "extro" wouldn't really be any more correct; neither "extro" nor "extroduco" has any meaning in Latin.

[Mindless]

Googling the phrases intro extro and intro outro product quite a few results.
Of course, outro produces more...

[the guest]

Yeah....... intro is short for introduction, which comes from the Latin "introduco"; only the beginning "in" looks like the English word "in" so they made the opposite "outro". Actually, "extro" wouldn't really be any more correct; neither "extro" nor "extroduco" has any meaning in Latin.

Well I suppose there's the pair "introvert" and "extrovert" in English that gives "extro" some legitimacy.  (Whereas there's no real word that begins with "outro"...I think.)

[tumble_weed]

are you saying your levels are introverted or extroverted :S...haha

and yeah Uni = university...