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.
> ... 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!
MarkBlah [3 hidden]5 mins 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 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Agreed - but what is shown on the webpage here, is
not really lemmings.
MarkBlah [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Duh
SanjayMehta [3 hidden]5 mins 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.
Waterluvian [3 hidden]5 mins ago
That’s pretty sweet.
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.
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.
ggsp [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Cute :) It has a couple of zoom bugs on mobile, something like
html { overflow-x: clip; touch-action: manipulation; }
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.
Funny how they keep hopping on a toggling horizontal scrollbar there at the bottom.
MisterMunchkin [3 hidden]5 mins ago
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
monkeydust [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Is there anyway to get the classic version of Lemmings (on Amiga/PC) playable on the Switch?
freshteapot [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Took me a moment to realise I could pick them up and place them, on things and in things.
Thank you for bringing this to life.
felipeerias [3 hidden]5 mins 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 [3 hidden]5 mins 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 [3 hidden]5 mins 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.
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.
Just a note for you: Nothing at all shows up for someone who has prefers reduced motion on.
adamddev1 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Nothing good comes from vib...
Ok, this is awesome.
manif00ld [3 hidden]5 mins ago
this made my day
rob74 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
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 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
They are...
WhyIsItAlwaysHN [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Thank you for making this. It was really fun and a really pleasant start to my day.
alana314 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
This is fantastic.
ckx [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Really fun to play around with! Good job!
ForgotMyUUID [3 hidden]5 mins ago
So cute!
allexsendev [3 hidden]5 mins 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 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
The tick rate isn’t high so should be able to have thousands
allexsendev [3 hidden]5 mins 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.
nilail [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Super funny idea ! But it does not follow the scroll down on Safari
swiftcoder [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I love that they can also walk on the text headings
MarkBlah [3 hidden]5 mins ago
A tribute to Psygnosis, just for fun
msephton [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Psygnosis were the publisher, DMA Design were the developers (you might know them from their other big game: Grand Theft Auto)
metchio [3 hidden]5 mins ago
this is awesome
shevy-java [3 hidden]5 mins 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.
HN.zip
[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!
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
html { overflow-x: clip; touch-action: manipulation; }
should fix them!
Explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ1atMUOUMU
https://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/
Thank you for bringing this to life.
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.
[1] http://xpenguins.seul.org/ and updated at https://github.com/Grumbel/xpenguins-ng
[2] https://xpenguins-web.github.io/
Ok, this is awesome.
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.