I played this game for dozens of hours with my dad growing up and seeing and playing with these animations is one of those times when nostalgia is so overwhelming and unexpected that I feel physically dizzy. If the animation had the sounds of lemmings dying when they fell from too high[1] I might have been hospitalized. Good work.
There's a modern macOS port of Lemmings here I've been playing for a few weeks (and several other classic 68k Macintosh game ports): https://roytinker.com/68k-ports/
TacticalCoder 6 hours ago [-]
> ... is one of those times when nostalgia is so overwhelming
1991, Psygnosis (of course), Commodore Amiga (double of course!): my little brother was 9 y/o at the time and we were teenagers and we'd play Lemmings like crazy on our Amiga.
My little brother couldn't speak english yes but he'd imitate the "oh, nooooo" sentence Lemmings you'd "suicide" would make.
More than three decades later my brother is still nicknamed "Lem" after "Lemmings" and that's how we call him. And about two decades ago, he gave his consulting company a name sounding like "Lemmings" (spelling slightly different). He's still "Lem" and he still has got that company.
Oh noooooooo!
detritus 2 hours ago [-]
One of the best features of the Amiga (and perhaps Atari ST?) was the two player version. A mouse in each of the joystick sockets, each player starts from opposing ends of the map in a splitscreen view, having to get to the other and obviously not interfering with the opposition's efforts. Ahem.
An evil game. Such fun. I wish they'd expanded on it more...
MarkBlah 9 hours ago [-]
Haha yea I pulled the sprites from the original game, I was thinking the same, an umbrella or die, it’d be a good way to artificially increase web analytics, maybe a message bubble
shevy-java 7 hours ago [-]
Agreed - but what is shown on the webpage here, is
not really lemmings.
MarkBlah 6 hours ago [-]
Duh
SanjayMehta 7 hours ago [-]
I played this for dozens of hours with my dad yelling helpfully over my shoulder. I still have the floppy in storage, but with no drive to read it.
I did something on my site recently like that where you can click a hexagon and it turns into a robot and starts SLAM mapping the page, navigating around text elements carefully.
Were you initially surprised by how easy it was to get exact block size of individual characters and not just entire dom elements? That’s the part I thought was going to be the most difficult.
Nice! Your site is impressive and your achievements even more so.
diginova 11 hours ago [-]
the base plates lighting up showing history of where the robot travelled is a fun detail
bradley13 59 minutes ago [-]
Cute. However, the fact that this is possible shows how ridiculously out of control CSS is. It is supposed to control appearance, and that does not entail being Turing complete.
cs02rm0 7 hours ago [-]
I recently put lemmings into some clinic management software I've been working on as a software egg.
That's beautiful! I hope it doesn't measure and chart the patients ^-^
pwagland 5 hours ago [-]
Interesting experiments and differences between the browsers.
Using the test:
(async () => {
const sleep = (ms) => new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, ms));
for (let i = 0; i < 200; i++) {
__walker.add();
await sleep(10);
}
})();
From the JavaScript console, on both Chrome and Safari.
The animation is _way_ smoother on Chrome, but scrolling on that page becomes really painful.
Safari, on the other hand, uses a lot more CPU to do the animation, and the FP of that animation drops dramatically as you change the number of lemmings from 10 -> 50 -> 100 -> 200. However scrolling the page remains smooth the entire time.
piratebroadcast 2 hours ago [-]
Okay, this reminds me of an game from a similar time period where there would be these two tanks firing at each other from across the screen, one at a time. Does anybody remember that and what it was called?
Cute :) It has a couple of zoom bugs on mobile, something like
html { overflow-x: clip; touch-action: manipulation; }
should fix them!
xtracto 2 hours ago [-]
You can make the lemmings jump on mobile by scrolling down and up as a fast movement. Like catapulting/pushing them up
MarkBlah 11 hours ago [-]
Oh awesome thank you, I will add this in
tosti 2 hours ago [-]
Cool! Have you also tried setting maximum display size in accessibility settings on android? I lost most of them at the stairs and the rest fell into the walls. Is that supposed to happen? None reached the bottom. That said, this is pretty cool.
patwolf 4 hours ago [-]
I remember having Lemmings and messing with the animation sprites from the game--I don't recall if they were saved in a bmp format or if it required a tool to extract. I'd try to recolor their hair or change their outfits pixel by pixel, but there were a lot of animations and a lot of frames. I always wanted to use them to build a Tetris/Lemmings hybrid game (the two games with the best music), but never got around to it.
MarkBlah 2 hours ago [-]
Bmp
OuterVale 10 hours ago [-]
I enjoy putting the lemming in the margin on the bottom of the viewport at the left or right side then scrolling down such that the lemming plummets. Then, scrolling up, I can make it bounce up as if it is on a trampoline. Very funny.
I vibe-ported xpenguins[1] to Web[2] recently, can be used as bookmarklet and let run on any website. No original Lemmings in that one however, only the knockoff penguins.
when i opened this thread my first thought was that i want pingus characters, not lemmings.
it's also awesome that you took over maintenance of xpenguins since you are the original creator the characters.
way to go!
MarkBlah 9 hours ago [-]
Haha that’s cool, need to hunt sheep.exe
jcattle 9 hours ago [-]
Just a note for you: Nothing at all shows up for someone who has prefers reduced motion on.
Hunterson 3 hours ago [-]
Awesome, brings back memories of playing lemmings on my Amiga in the early 90s
noufalibrahim 11 hours ago [-]
I don't know if I'm remembering this correctly but there used to be a site called html5lemmings (or something similar) where you could play a few levels of the game. This was before modern web applications and things were still mostly server side rendered with minimal javascript. The demo was quite impressive. I don't know if it's still there. Couldn't find it with a quick search.
This sent me on a lemmings hunt and I found someone porting all of the lemmings games and community levels to Mac - https://github.com/ErikVeland/Lemmings
adamddev1 8 hours ago [-]
Nothing good comes from vib...
Ok, this is awesome.
felipeerias 10 hours ago [-]
Love it!
It is unfortunate that the scenery is positioned in such a way that lemmings end up falling by the side all the way to the bottom of the screen.
Perhaps it would look better if you removed the padding from <body> and added more pits to the scenery.
dspillett 6 hours ago [-]
As the first paragraph says (“Drag one to carry it”) you can move them around to put them on/in the parts that you want to test their interactions with.
Other than respawning them as you scroll around, so one starts in an appropriate place as a test comes into view, and resetting them automatically, perhaps on a timer, there probably isn't a better way to properly show it off than that.
9dev 10 hours ago [-]
Right, I thought the same. Construct it such that a Lemming falling down from the top will have to clear every level to the bottom instead of just falling past all of them.
hoppp 4 hours ago [-]
On android they fall down along the side all the way to the bottom
Cute, but it would look nicer if the walkers were... you know, actually walking? Ok, might be hard to do with CSS to be fair, I don't know enough about CSS animation to judge that.
EDIT: works in Chrome and Firefox, doesn't work in Edge (on Linux - yeah, I know almost nobody uses that) for some reason...
filcuk 9 hours ago [-]
They are...
WhyIsItAlwaysHN 9 hours ago [-]
Thank you for making this. It was really fun and a really pleasant start to my day.
MarkBlah 13 hours ago [-]
A tribute to Psygnosis, just for fun
msephton 7 hours ago [-]
Psygnosis were the publisher, DMA Design were the developers (you might know them from their other big game: Grand Theft Auto)
nilail 10 hours ago [-]
Super funny idea ! But it does not follow the scroll down on Safari
allexsendev 9 hours ago [-]
mad impressive imo, spawned like 50+ ppl and still running smooth (although must say I have a monster rig).
And I overenjoyed throwing lil marios around
MarkBlah 8 hours ago [-]
The tick rate isn’t high so should be able to have thousands
allexsendev 8 hours ago [-]
Could be, yeah, didn't look deep into it. Just speaking from my experience with the flashy websites doing impressive demos usually starting to lag fairly soon.
ckx 8 hours ago [-]
Really fun to play around with! Good job!
swiftcoder 9 hours ago [-]
I love that they can also walk on the text headings
cheapcheerful 11 hours ago [-]
Awesome. Loved the originals.
ForgotMyUUID 6 hours ago [-]
So cute!
shevy-java 7 hours ago [-]
That kind of misses what made Lemmings fun though.
Without digging and building stairs and parachutes,
it is only Lemmings in name, not in spirit. Also,
exploding lemmings - this can probably be done via
CSS animations.
manif00ld 5 hours ago [-]
this made my day
jdw64 8 hours ago [-]
Oh, this game brings back memories
metchio 6 hours ago [-]
this is awesome
memming 11 hours ago [-]
Now that's what I'm talking about.
tmountain 9 hours ago [-]
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clilog_d 10 hours ago [-]
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monkeydust 6 hours ago [-]
Is there anyway to get the classic version of Lemmings (on Amiga/PC) playable on the Switch?
dole 3 hours ago [-]
There's a homebrew port of DOS Lemmings to 3DS, with an LLM it might not be too hard to get working.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_RmG9WB4BE
1991, Psygnosis (of course), Commodore Amiga (double of course!): my little brother was 9 y/o at the time and we were teenagers and we'd play Lemmings like crazy on our Amiga.
My little brother couldn't speak english yes but he'd imitate the "oh, nooooo" sentence Lemmings you'd "suicide" would make.
More than three decades later my brother is still nicknamed "Lem" after "Lemmings" and that's how we call him. And about two decades ago, he gave his consulting company a name sounding like "Lemmings" (spelling slightly different). He's still "Lem" and he still has got that company.
Oh noooooooo!
An evil game. Such fun. I wish they'd expanded on it more...
I did something on my site recently like that where you can click a hexagon and it turns into a robot and starts SLAM mapping the page, navigating around text elements carefully.
Were you initially surprised by how easy it was to get exact block size of individual characters and not just entire dom elements? That’s the part I thought was going to be the most difficult.
Nice! Your site is impressive and your achievements even more so.
https://postimg.cc/gxvZHbgG
Using the test: (async () => { const sleep = (ms) => new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, ms)); for (let i = 0; i < 200; i++) { __walker.add(); await sleep(10); } })();
From the JavaScript console, on both Chrome and Safari.
The animation is _way_ smoother on Chrome, but scrolling on that page becomes really painful.
Safari, on the other hand, uses a lot more CPU to do the animation, and the FP of that animation drops dramatically as you change the number of lemmings from 10 -> 50 -> 100 -> 200. However scrolling the page remains smooth the entire time.
https://archive.org/details/win3_BANGBANG
html { overflow-x: clip; touch-action: manipulation; }
should fix them!
Explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ1atMUOUMU
[1] http://xpenguins.seul.org/ and updated at https://github.com/Grumbel/xpenguins-ng
[2] https://xpenguins-web.github.io/
it's also awesome that you took over maintenance of xpenguins since you are the original creator the characters.
way to go!
https://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82cqmq6quXI
Thank you for bringing this to life.
Ok, this is awesome.
It is unfortunate that the scenery is positioned in such a way that lemmings end up falling by the side all the way to the bottom of the screen.
Perhaps it would look better if you removed the padding from <body> and added more pits to the scenery.
Other than respawning them as you scroll around, so one starts in an appropriate place as a test comes into view, and resetting them automatically, perhaps on a timer, there probably isn't a better way to properly show it off than that.
EDIT: works in Chrome and Firefox, doesn't work in Edge (on Linux - yeah, I know almost nobody uses that) for some reason...
And I overenjoyed throwing lil marios around
Without digging and building stairs and parachutes, it is only Lemmings in name, not in spirit. Also, exploding lemmings - this can probably be done via CSS animations.
https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/Lemmings_for_3DS
https://github.com/esoteric-programmer/lemmings_3ds