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0 pointsmonster_truck16d ago0 comments

Extremely performant JS port of Lemmings (~28,000,000 Lemmings at original game speed on a decent PC), with a full midi subsystem (going to turn it into a weird sequencer), a level editor, etc https://doublemover.github.io/LemmingsJS-MIDI/

Slopjective-C 3.0 https://github.com/doublemover/Slopjective-C

Whatever this is, I don't feel like explaining it, ask claude https://github.com/doublemover/PairOfCleats

And a zachtronics inspired game about building Ring Laser Oscillators in an attempt to make something that gets export controlled like the nuke building game. https://i.imgur.com/UGhT3BI.png

And a platformer for one of my favorite musicians that will be part of the media push for their next release.

And a spiritual successor to Math Blaster: In Search Of Spot to make sure my nephew and all of my friends kids are at least as good at math as I am.

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ralferoo16d ago

Lemmings seems as fun as ever. I sped it up on one level and then the next level started at crazy fast speed and I couldn't figure out how to slow it down again. But otherwise looks nice.

monster_truckOP16d ago

Thanks :) The hardest part of making this was not spending all of my time playing.

F1 or ? will show the shortcut keys.

There are little +/- buttons you can click on (bottom of "Paws" button) to do this, right clicking will reset the speed.

There's also a benchmark mode, lots of other flags. This URL will run the game endlessly, spawning 10 lemmings at a time, automatically adjusting the speed to run as fast as it can, reducing speed when frames take too long. I chose a level that ensures they splat so that anyone who clicks on this and forgets about it only crashes the tab and not their browser https://doublemover.github.io/LemmingsJS-MIDI/?version=1&dif...

KellyCriterion16d ago

how do 28million Lemmings fit on a 320x200 VGA screen? :-D

monster_truckOP16d ago

That's the neat part, they don't! Getting the blitter performant enough to handle this was a blast, and it really shines at absurd speeds on high refresh rate displays.

I'm unsure what the other comment is on about, it is a fork in spirit only at this point. He is also credited in the readme, along with the excellent Lemmings community which made figuring out how every mechanic is actually supposed to function very easy.

KellyCriterion15d ago

I played the first few levels: Childhood memories :-) Its cool to have those things in the browser today, back then you needed a "state of the art computer" to run it.

Playing it for 1h, it reminds me of how much fun and how simple lot of games where back then - and these were blockbusters.

Today? 150 GB download from whatever game-net, the "ease joy of just entering a game and playing for some minutes" is gone with todays monster-AAA-titles

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0 pointsmonster_truck16d ago0 comments

Slopjective-C 3.0 https://github.com/doublemover/Slopjective-C

Whatever this is, I don't feel like explaining it, ask claude https://github.com/doublemover/PairOfCleats

And a zachtronics inspired game about building Ring Laser Oscillators in an attempt to make something that gets export controlled like the nuke building game. https://i.imgur.com/UGhT3BI.png

And a platformer for one of my favorite musicians that will be part of the media push for their next release.

And a spiritual successor to Math Blaster: In Search Of Spot to make sure my nephew and all of my friends kids are at least as good at math as I am.

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ralferoo16d ago

Lemmings seems as fun as ever. I sped it up on one level and then the next level started at crazy fast speed and I couldn't figure out how to slow it down again. But otherwise looks nice.

monster_truckOP16d ago

Thanks :) The hardest part of making this was not spending all of my time playing.

F1 or ? will show the shortcut keys.

There are little +/- buttons you can click on (bottom of "Paws" button) to do this, right clicking will reset the speed.

KellyCriterion16d ago

how do 28million Lemmings fit on a 320x200 VGA screen? :-D

monster_truckOP16d ago

That's the neat part, they don't! Getting the blitter performant enough to handle this was a blast, and it really shines at absurd speeds on high refresh rate displays.

KellyCriterion15d ago

I played the first few levels: Childhood memories :-) Its cool to have those things in the browser today, back then you needed a "state of the art computer" to run it.

Playing it for 1h, it reminds me of how much fun and how simple lot of games where back then - and these were blockbusters.

Today? 150 GB download from whatever game-net, the "ease joy of just entering a game and playing for some minutes" is gone with todays monster-AAA-titles

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse