I'm working on the windows executable, having problems ... :-) I'll try hard wednesday night.. though whether or not it was/is possible to actually do a complete lemmings clone is debatable. I do have an update though, it is possible to beat all 5 levels... I did it today.
Yay, the windows one works (same problem as other pygames/SDLs for windows: occasionally big chunks of screen jump around). Now make up your mind: SHEEPERS, or SHEEPINGS. You can't have it both ways.
I'm not gonna give much credit on gameplay here, since, well, it'd be hard to do a more exact clone of Lemmings! But it works well, it's well implemented. There's some really important stuff missing though, like countdowns, indications of how many to save, stuff like that. But it was still quite playable, and solvable and all. It died on me in the fourth? (where you had to dig down) level, I'm pretty sure because one of my sheeperings went off the right edge of the screen (left edge occurred safely in previous levels, however).
Sound would've added a lot, as would the typical lemmings particle deaths. Another nice thing would've been speed-up mode.
impressive. I thought it was weird that the buttons on the bottom changed order sometimes. maybe that's part of the original lemmings, i dunno, been a long time since I've played it. on a side note that was a really cool intro screen
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I'm not gonna give much credit on gameplay here, since, well, it'd be hard to do a more exact clone of Lemmings! But it works well, it's well implemented. There's some really important stuff missing though, like countdowns, indications of how many to save, stuff like that. But it was still quite playable, and solvable and all. It died on me in the fourth? (where you had to dig down) level, I'm pretty sure because one of my sheeperings went off the right edge of the screen (left edge occurred safely in previous levels, however).
Sound would've added a lot, as would the typical lemmings particle deaths. Another nice thing would've been speed-up mode.
Fun. Very straightforward, there was no confusion as to what I was supposed to do. The levels were well balanced.
Gameplay Innovation:
Well, it just had a subset of the features of 'lemmings' so no points there.
Fun:
One of the funner games I tried out.
Gfx:
On par for this competition.
Sound: none
Technical:
It always crashed on level 3.
GP Theme:
There was construction, and it wasn't just lipservice, it actually was integral to the game. Not especially innovative, but better than most entries.
Cosmetic theme:
Basically lipservice. If they built stairs out of haybails or had to reach the "green meadow", etc. it would've got higher.
Completeness:
About average. No sound, and crashed on level 3, so those things detracted. However there actually *were* multiple levels, a good thing.