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This is one of my favorite games of all time. I used to have it for the SNES growing up and I almost beat the entire thing over the course of many months. The t
by cdelsolar 8y ago
This is one of my favorite games of all time. I used to have it for the SNES growing up and I almost beat the entire thing over the course of many months. The toughest levels are absolutely insane.
Has there ever been a newer game with this same dynamic? For a while I wanted to make a clone, I think it would work well on a console like the Switch.
- flanbiscuit 8y agoOn Steam you can find a game called "Zombie Night Terror" which is basically Lemmings with a horror/zombie theme. I enjoyed it and was excited to play Lemmings style game
- flukus 8y agoThere is a very good OSS clone called pingus: https://pingus.seul.org/screenshots-0.7.html https://pingus.seul.org/screenshots-0.7.html Back in the amiga days I loved a somewhat similar one called humans. It does seem weird that such a successful game hasn't spawned more clones though.
- ekianjo 8y agoThey, as in Psygnosis, completely milked the Lemmings IP over the years. The 3d episodes were pretty bad and that was the end of it if I recall correctly.
- Nition 8y agoLemmings Revolution was particularly silly as it's basically the 2D game but superimposed onto a 3D cylinder. Luckily games have moved away in recent years from the "everything must be 3D just because" era of the late 90s.
- andrepd 8y agoThe Switch homebrew scene is starting to come to life, so you could make that idea a reality!
- auton1 8y agoHe did mention that he doesn't know why no-one has made an internet connected multiplayer version... Man, that would be awesome!
- exikyut 8y agoHow would that work? Same rules as the multiplayer mode (anyone can control any lemming, everyone works from a shared pool of skills)?
- auton1 8y agoNot sure. It would require some experiments. Maybe different teams of lemmings? Or maybe a free-for-all?
- nfoz 8y agoClassic Lemmings had both co-op and competitive multiplayer. Co-op is clear, as you described. Competitive: you each have your own lemmings: blue-green vs. green-blue. You have your own start point and end point on the same map. You can only control your own lemmings. Your goal-point will accept any lemming. Hilarious chaos ensues.
- jpablo 8y agoI haven't played Lemmings, but a quick glance suggest the recent Mario vs Donkey Kong follow the same idea.
- phodo 8y agoBroderbund's Lode Runner (on the Apple II... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzimJopP5rE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzimJopP5rE), Lemmings, and the more recent Tower Defense games on iOS all have that special level-by-level, puzzle, automation game mechanic.
- macintux 8y agoSpirits is similar: http://www.spacesofplay.com/spirits/ http://www.spacesofplay.com/spirits/