Level themes

[Jase]

I have not seen yet a poll for this, maybe it has been done I dunno. But I was wondering cos I ... well, I wonder a lot. Also trying to make a good level pack for Cheapo Lemmings, but I want to know what the people like.

The Olympics set seems to be the most used in Lemmings One. And the Cold hard Crystal set is the least used.

I was thinking of ignoring the Olympics set entirely, because it is BORING! But I'll see what people think first.

My favourite is the Goin' Down To Hell style. The Devil Exit is so cool! I like the SMS version the best. But ugh have you seen the Macintosh version of the Exit? It looks like the Devils horns were cut off, and he acquired buck teeth and specs: it's a Nerdy Devil! UGH!

[Isu]

I chose The Olympics, Big Blue Balls, and Special Graphics themes

My overall favourite the yellow olympics theme (My first lemedit levelpak contains five such levels ). My favourite Oh No! theme is the Balls, (seen a few times in my cheapo packs) I've never been too keen on Oh No! More Lemmings though. And the special graphics themes are always interesting.
Oh, and you forgot the snow graphics in your poll

[Conway]

You missed out Oh No! Snow!

[Proxima]

I chose Hell, Pink and Balls. I love these three because they have the perfect mixture of straight and rocky pieces; Dirt, Rock and Snow don't have enough straight pieces, while Brick has too many. (However, I try to use the styles more or less evenly in my levels, and some of my favourite levels do use the styles I don't like so much -- my best level yet, Zorn's Lemming, uses Brick, for instance.)

The Hell set is the most used in the PC Lemmings game. In the Mac version, because 21 Tricky is "Going Their Separate Ways" instead of "All the Sixes", the Hell and Pink sets come first equal. No Lemmings style, however, is used nearly as much as Brick in ONML, in spite of the fact that ONML has twenty fewer levels.

On a side note, it's interesting to see the different names people come up with for the styles. The style from "Only floaters can survive this" is often called Columns, Sand or Roman, but I've never heard it called Olympic before. I can't really see the connection, unless it's the "Olympic Rings" seen in the level "Like an overflowing wave"......

[guest]

The Olympics??? ::  I'm sorry, that is the most non-sensical name ever for the "columns" graphics set.  Nothing in it whatsoever suggests "Olympics" or even "sports" to me.  O_o

[guest]

I think I find myself liking "Bricks" the most, visually speaking.  Other than that I don't think I have a clear preference, though of course the special graphics are neat too.

I think generally the ONML graphics are, color-wise, more varied and somewhat brighter, while the original Lemmings graphics tend to be more subdued/subtle, with some graphics sets based almostly entirely on a single color type for the terrain.  I generally like the ONML-style graphics a little better, but I can see other people feel otherwise.

[tumble_weed]

HAHA I love the names you gave them! But definitely "Goin' down to Hell" and "Cold hard crystals" would be my favourites...

You missed out Oh No! Snow!

and "Merry Christmas, Mr Lemming" (although they are pretty similar...)

[Jase]

changed the poll. results are screwy cos theres a vote in the wrong place. doesnt matter cos its MY poll hehehe

and its interesting (at the time of post) that Going down to Hell is most popular. its my fave too! except the mac version of course

and its called "olympics" cos the style remins me of sparta for some reason, which links to greece, which is where the olympics was held... if my history is wrong DONT COMMENT! lets live in a fantasy bubble for a while

ciao

and someone know why the mac devil head looks so dumb? TELL ME! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH! &#A0;

[guest]

Alright, I think you're getting a little too hyper over there.   O_o  :-/

You might as well just delete the poll.  The discussion is more interesting than a poll that you're going to keep changing because "the votes look screwy".  

[chaos_defrost]

I vote (in order of preference) Bricks, Pink, and Hell. That order.

The Brick style is the perfect style for my design process. All kinds of straight angle pieces, Yet enough variety to still make the level aesthetically pleasing.

The Pink style is probably the most versatile style for design, with the most different kind of pieces. It has large pillars, small stones, flat walls, and even bumpy pieces I never use.

The Hell style is in the same vein as the Pink style, although the thing putting the Pink style ahead of this one is that the Hell style has no "non-constant" traps. That is, there's no traps that only kill one lemming if a tightly packed group runs into it. The Pink style has the compressor thing, but the Hell style only has "constant" fire traps.

[Jase]

To guest..

SHUT UP ! It's my poll! Hehe just messin'

The discussion is good, but it still only compliments the poll. I made this for the poll, not the chat. But the chat is interesting.

[Shvegait]

I have not seen yet a poll for this, maybe it has been done I dunno.

http://eng-forum.lemmingswelt.de/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=news;action=display;num=1092444469

(It was on page 4, but still...)

[geoo]

Bricks, Columns, Pink.

Bricks are my absolute favourite 'cause all pieces are straight.
I simply can work better that way.

Columns (I use to call it "Classic style", cause in L2 on the map for tribe "classic" there's a lot of terrain of the colums style) and Pink similar reason, and the colour is quite nice.

In cheapo, I don't like the columns style so much, and the pink style even less.
But there is another style I really like as nice substitute.

The special levels are really interesting, but I think if I'd get to see lots of those, I'd think a little different.
It was the same case with the crystal style: when I played the original levels, I really looked forward to those levels, now there are much more of this style, and I don't like it as much as I did at the beginning.

[DragonsLover]

Hell, Pink and Bricks. These are the ones that I enjoy the most!

[JasonXV]

Heh sorry Shvegait for making a duplicate thingy.
Keep those comments coming!

By the by, has anyone made the Original Graphics sets for Cheapo? I notice Cheapo has got the Original "Diggin' through Dirt" style in there somewhere. But the other styles aren't there.

No offence at all to the Cheapo styles, but they're a TAD dark. And the Cheapo Dirt style reminds me of A BEAST of a Level! style. That has to be the most boring graphics set after Pink <I prefer the SMS version, which is actually grey, not Pink>.