From what i saw online, it’s more like a virtual pet that you can ask basic thing for him to do, if you dont do anything it will do things on its own, but for example in the original you were able to type things like:
Please dance
Feed the cat
Play piano
Write me a letter
etc…
I didn’t remember the resolution was that low in Lemmings
Basically they are autonomous but will interact with you they will ask for food, water books records computer games etc if you don’t provide it already they will watch tv as well
It’s like a better virtual pet, I need to get to my keyboard so I can type better
ok, to interact, you would use the + key , each direction for an action, up food, down water ,left get a book, right a record
then the a and b buttons would modify it, up a would be call them on the phone, down a would be praise them, left a something, right a something else,
c would be reserved for the save menu
I had forgotten that they had a piano in some versions.
Hrm, I guess the bit that’s taxing my suspension of disbelief is why they can’t find their own food.
In the sims game I played years ago (a GBA title) the character was controlled by the player,
so the player would have to decide when to eat/drink/excrete etc.
To clarify, the stats are hunger, tiredness, thirst and boredom, right?
Also:
I would have liked to have used Lua to do the AI,
but I’ve decided that since it’s early days for that I’ll use decision trees instead.
Both options are relatively memory hungry,
but they’re flexible and relatively easy to get up and running.
In the beginning, getting up and running is more important than reducing memory usage.
If the AI won’t need to be reconfigured then it will probably be possible to just scrap the behaviour trees and hardcode it all later or something.
They can get their own food and water you just have to make sure the provided usually in the game it was represented by a water tank and you could see how much water was in it and there was a shelf and as they had food it would appear as boxes on the shelf
In which case, maybe the player would have to buy the food and pay water and electricity bills, and maybe earn the money to do so through some kind of minigame?
Otherwise it just seems to me like there’s no real challenge of any kind, it’s just an overly complex lava lamp.
(Maybe that’s just me though?)
That’s pretty much what it was back then. I think it was aimed at kids mostly. Reminds me of that Mini the ant on the commodore64.
sounds like a good idea for a later update,
also second attempt at walking
I couldn’t get it to look good with a bounce atm,
The stat bars should be hidden, the food and water would be shown by their places on the screen, a water cooler on teh kitchen counter, and boxes on a shelf for food and water,
screen mode, I have no idea, whatever is best for the programmer, I don’t understand all the differences,
so far, though I didn’t write them down,
title screen
So are there stat bars that display at some point, or does the player have no idea how the character becomes hungry/thirsty etc?
For the programmer it doesn’t make much difference other than how much RAM is available and how much Flash/ROM/Progmem the sprites chew up.
For the artist it puts a limit on the number of colours you can use and the resolution of the screen.
You have to decide whether you want 16 colours or 256 colours and whether you want a resolution of 220x176, 110x88 or 110x176.
Only certain combinations are viable:
If mixed mode is available you don’t even have to decide! IT is currently a little slower I think, but I’m sure some of the ASM gurus on the forum here can fix that 
Should you have a home at the top of the stairs? I know the original had also a part going left or right so it didn’t need a hole, bit if the stairs are this way it may need a hole in the floor above. What do you think?
The post you linked to doesn’t actually explain what mixed mode is or does.
This thought crossed my mind as well.
If the stairs are a bit of an issue, it would be easy enough to use a lift.
A lift would essentially be like a magic vanishing cabinet.
link corrected.
Basically it allows
220x176x4
110x176x16
110x88x256
All at the same time. The screen can is split into 88 lines, each line can have a different ‘mode’. This is possible because all of these modes use the same buffer size, so the only real difference is how the data is transferred to the screen. An advantage here, would be to swap from low-res 8bit gfx to hi-res 2bit (for text as an example) within the same program.
To let you know they would have a message in the top of the screen.
The 220x resolution would be best, speed doesn’t really seem an issue for the game.
220x176?
In that case, make sure you’re sticking to the same 16 colours for your images.
I need to see how many I’ve used, I think it is 16, and I reuse several.
Ok, so I sampled everything and compared the hex codes, and I don’t know how I did it but after a slight modification I have exactly 16 colors now.
and all the colors in Jenny are reused from the house.
Actually as I look at it I think perhaps the black area could be used to show the food water attention extent stat bars in a color but unlabeled.