Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack

[Simon]

Simple 1 through Simple 10 on Youtube
Simple 11 through Simple 20
Simple 21 through Simple 28
Simple 29 through Simple 38
Simple 39 through Quirky 8
Quirky 9 through Quirky 14
Quirky 15 through Quirky 20
Quirky 21 through Quirky 27
Forest of Fears, Lix Lata
Quirky 29, 30 = Snowball Battle
Quirky 31-34
Quirky 35-40
Cunning 1+2
Cunning 3 through Cunning 5 = Lix Cannon
Cunning 6-10
Cunning 11-13
Cunning 14
Cunning 15-17
Cunning 18-22
Cunning 23-25
Cunning 26-28
Cunning 29-30
Cunning 31-34
Cunning 35+36
Cunning 37+38
Cunning 39+40
Daunting 1
Daunting 2+3
Daunting 4+5
Daunting 6 = Now This is Fun
Daunting 7-9 = Variety Day, Merge Sort, Backslash
Daunting 10-11 = Go West, Stickup (sorting before v.0.9.12)
Daunting 2 = Round Trip
Daunting 12-14
Daunting 15 = Railroad Plot
Daunting 16-17 = Derailed Level, Lixes in Motion (does not solve Derailed Level)
Daunting 18-19 = Too Much Stepping Stones, Jack in the Box
Daunting 20-22 = Slipping, Slipping Again, Lix Ferenda
Daunting 23 = Segmentation Fault
Daunting 24-26: Cornerstone, Repeating Patterns, The Crimson Room (does not solve Repeating Patterns nor Crimson Room)
Derailed, Repeating, Crimson, Feel the Pressure, Beneath the Lab, Slaughterhouse

Early videos show both Windows's mouse cursor and Lix's mouse cursor. This effect comes from the recording software, it puts Windows's cursor back into the video. Flopsy doesn't see the Windows cursor during play, not even during recording.

When you pull the mouse hard enough to a window side, Lix releases the mouse. This is a feature. Depending on your mouse speed in the game and in Windows, it feels like a bug instead. I fixed this in the later Simple levels.

SI, in the panel, means spawn interval, the physics updates between successive lix spawns. I should write that on hatches instead, during pause, and not use the abbreviation either.

-- Simon

[namida]

I would definitely say permanent trapping, or at least an option. If doing so, be sure to have a hotkey or clickable button to release the mouse. (Alt+Tab will generally do the job of course, but not everyone will know this, and they may have some reason for not wanting to use Alt+Tab specifically due to what else it does besides releasing the mouse from Lix's control. If it even does achieve that for Lix.)

[Simon]

Simple 21 through Simple 28

Mouse leaves window:
1. Update Lix.
2. In the options menu, on the controls tab, uncheck "fast movement untraps mouse".

Platformer too precise on Charge of the Lix Brigade: Yes, the platformer assignment is precise. You must assign platformer on the slope, or it runs out of bricks. I suggest instead:



-- Simon

[Flopsy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAJ_cQEPxOM

New video for this playthrough: Simple 29-38
Reuploaded finally after a licensing issue blocked this video in Germany

[Simon]

This video plays perfectly in Germany. Thanks, that's excellent support to reupload immediately without the offending music.

Crowd doesn't follow builder after blocker turns builder: I know this, and the behavior is unexpected. I haven't made up my mind whether it's good or bad, or what to do about it. ccx: I moved the discussion into the issue thread.



We will change levels:
LionLixWardrobe: 12/24 -> 12/30, that's not so tight.
OneWayRoad: 60/60 -> 30/30, there shouldn't be any more spawns after you dig.

-- Simon

[Flopsy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qudPQ4_s_ns

Simple 39-40 & Quirky 1-8 video is now live.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoSfgImcDvA

Quirky 9-14 is also live

[Simon]

Quirky 15-20

Proxima, Nepster, and I are discussing Another Lix in the Wall. Flopsy's solution is too finnicky. Unclear whether we should change the level (considering platformers 1->0, considering shortening the level outside of the pillars) or whether Flopsy should have recognized the finnickiness and try another idea.

At 28:35, the video shows a bug that I haven't seen before, Framestepping moves into obsolete physics cache, #159.

-- Simon

[Flopsy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9mapME6m3g

Sorry it's been a while, Quirky 21-27 is now live

[Simon]

Thanks!

At your game resolution, default-height levels show only 85 % of vertical height, potentially hiding important ledges.

I don't yet know what to do. The zoom is 2 (every physics pixel generates a 2x2 block on the screen). Zoom 1 is too small, default-sized levels would fill only 30 % of the area. I haven't tested yet whether non-integer zoom looks good at all, I believe it won't look any good. I'd rather not make the levels smaller, a good solution shouldn't depend on level size.

-- Simon

[Flopsy]

Sorry it's been a very long time but I finally uploaded my next video in the LP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UodFM0laF2w

The videos will be shorter going forward but I'm hoping to do Lix more regularly from now on.

[Forestidia86]

Flopsy's next Lix video (Quirky 29+30 as of v. 0.9.4), which contains the attempts to "Snowball Battle". The level haunted me as well for quite a while. It's rough in its own way.

[Proxima]

I am strongly considering re-ranking this level, but I'm waiting until Flopsy has played a little bit further before making a decision on which level to move down in its place.

[Flopsy]

Just as an update, I've now played as far as Cunning 13.

Lix videos will come out every Friday at 2pm GMT until further notice, it saves me announcing each video in a separate post so just check back my channel each Friday

[Forestidia86]

Flopsy has finished the Quirky rank with today's video.
Videos not considered in the first post:
Quirky 31-34
Quirky 35-40

[mobius]

was that solution to Path To Mahiman intended? IMO: it completely trivializes the level; the idea of the level is to go around the maze. Maybe it was tedious before with the builder-only version but with walkers and jumpers I thought it was not annoying at all.

Quirky 35-40