Long Live Lemmings! (30 levels) [Difficulty: Easy-Hard]

NieSch · September 10, 2021, 11:01:02 AM

Update: V2.1, see first post for downloads (level pack and updated solutions).

Changes:

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Welcome to the Twilight Zone: now with only 10 builders. I also updated the solutions.

NieSch · October 02, 2021, 04:03:25 PM

Update: V3.0, see first post for downloads (level pack and updated solutions).

Changes: I've added an extra Bonus level.

Bonus 5: All the Good Lems go to Hell

Style: SMS Fire

At first I made this level for the current level design contest, but I made a mistake and found out it doesn't fit any of the rules (that I haven't made a previous entry for). So instead of making it a contest entry I include it in this pack.

Also included in the zip file of the pack is a custom music track for this level. It's an 8Bit version of Billie Eilish's "All the Good Girls go to Hell" made by this YouTuber.

Armani · October 03, 2021, 02:13:12 AM

backroute?

NieSch · October 03, 2021, 05:54:37 AM

It is! I'll fix it soon and send it you to playtest.

NieSch · October 04, 2021, 03:08:01 PM

Update: V3.1, see first post for downloads (level pack and updated solutions).

Armani and I hade a nice backroute/update battle over my latest bonus level.

Armani won.

So even though Armani still has alternative solutions to the level (I can't call them backroutes really!) I put in an updated version of it that eliminates a lot of other easier backroutes.

Also I changed the order of the Bonus level rank a bit.

Now the pack contains 29 levels. Since Long Live Lemmings! is a bit about celebrating 30 year of Lemmings I think I'll add a final bonus level later this year to make it a nice 30 levels in total.

Edit: Update: V3.2 (Red arrow in latest Bonus level moved 1 pixel to the left)

NieSch · October 12, 2021, 06:06:24 AM

Update: V4.0, see first post for downloads (level pack and updated solutions).

Changes: I've added an extra Bonus level and changed the order of the levels in the Bonus rank. The new level is Bonus 1.

Bonus 1: Dr Lemminggood's Latest Invention

Style: SMS Marble

This is the 30th and definitely the final level for the pack, no more levels will be added. Future updates will only be backroute fixes and stuff like that.

Edit: Update: V4.1 (An aesthetic matter of 1 pixel in the latest level)

IchoTolot · October 17, 2021, 03:38:41 PM

I just solved the pack and attached my replays. I think there might still be a few backroutes left.

NieSch · October 18, 2021, 07:54:48 AM

Thanks for playing Icho! Hope you enjoyed it. I'm quite relieved it's only 5 levels I have to find backroute fixes for. Could have been a lot worse.

Well done!

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Update: V4.2, see first post for downloads (level pack and updated solutions).

I changed 5 levels a bit to fix IchoTolot's latest backroutes:

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Tricky 3 - The L-Team (the exit is now placed on a small platform)
Taxing 1 - You Better Watch Out (thin steel is added to the left of the first pillar)
Taxing 4 - Mission Unreachable (the digger is out, an extra jumper is in)
Bonus 2 - Working Lem Blues (the steel is made thicker where IchoTolot used the "jumper cancels miner trick")
Bonus 5 - All the Good Lems go to Hell (extra steel is added to the large square)

Tricky 3: The L-Team

IchoTolot · October 23, 2021, 02:05:09 PM

I resolved the levels!

I have an additional remark though on Taxing 2 the Tarzan and Jane one:

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I took me quite a while to se that the additional terrain on the steel in the middle was not just decoration completely closed in by steel, but actually minable. The upper edge of the terrain prece is quite dark and I mistook it for steel. Maybe swap the grey terrain out for the green gems or another typre of terrain and make it a bit more visible.

NieSch · October 23, 2021, 07:41:47 PM

Good suggestion, I'll change that. Bonus 2 is intended now.

Update: V4.3, see first post for downloads (level pack and updated solutions).

Other changes I made to fix IchoTolot's latest backroutes:

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Tricky 3 - The L-Team (top left barrel added, position of the three barrels together changed more to the left)
Taxing 1 - You Better Watch Out (1 glider less, 1 floater added)
Taxing 4 - Mission Unreachable (1 jumper less, 1 basher added)
Bonus 5 - All the Good Lems go to Hell (added a small piece of chain under the bit with the arrows)

Taxing 2: Tarzan & Jane (Part II)

Edit: Update: V4.4

Another small change in Taxing 1.

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The bit of landscape with the exit on it can no longer be reached by a climber/(floater) jumping.

Taxing 1: You Better Watch Out

IchoTolot · October 24, 2021, 10:53:36 AM

Here are my resolves again.

NieSch · October 24, 2021, 01:58:58 PM

Quote from: IchoTolot on October 24, 2021, 10:53:36 AM
Here are my resolves again.

Thanks a lot! I appreciate that.

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- Tricky 3: not intended but a great alternative solution
- Taxing 1: 99% intended, but I like the missing 1% so I'll still fix it

- Taxing 4: intended!
- Bonus 5: 99% intended but I'm not sure if I can or will fix this.

Well done!

Update: V4.5

Changes made to two levels:

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- Taxing 1: exit placed 1 pixel(!) to the left
- Bonus 5: steel under the entrance removed, firepits added. Bombing here is no longer advisable!

Credits added: thanks to kaywhyn and IchoTolot for finding more backroutes.

IchoTolot · October 24, 2021, 02:21:51 PM

More resolves.

NieSch · October 24, 2021, 02:55:35 PM

You know what? You win! I know when I'm beaten.

Edit: Update: V4.6

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Thanks to IchoTolot I've slightly improved the solution to Bonus 5. Changes in the level: 1 blocker less, 1 slider less, 1 bomber more. The way the steel is placed on the large square has changed too.

Bonus 5: All the Good Lems go to Hell

IchoTolot · October 25, 2021, 08:23:07 PM

Here are my updated replays.