Lemons

Lemons is based on a classic game called Lemmings which is a puzzle computer game, developed by DMA Design (now Rockstar North) and published by Psygnosis in 1991, originally for the Commodore Amiga.

Lemmings was one of the most popular computer games of its time and several games magazines praised the game, giving it some of their highest review scores at the time.

The popularity of the game led to development of numerous ports to other systems, including most recently ports to the PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation 3 in 2006 and 2007, and the creation of several sequels.

Finally a version of Lemmings has arrived for the iPhone and it’s called Lemons.

What is Lemons All About?

Lemons consists of 45 levels with a special gift once all 45 are completed, Each level comprises both destructible landscape elements such as rocks, indestructible sections such as steel plates, and include numerous obstacles including chasms, high walls, large drops, pools of water or lava, and traps that trigger when a Lemon is close.

Each level also includes one or more entrance points and one or more exits. The goal is to guide a certain percentage of the green-hair, blue-shirted Lemons from the entrance to the exit by clearing or creating a safe passage through the landscape for the Lemons to use.

Unless assigned a special task, each Lemon will walk in one direction ignoring any other Lemon in its way (save for Blockers), falling off any edges and turning around if they hit an obstacle they cannot pass. They die if they fall from a great height, fall into water or lava or off the map, or get caught in a trap; they also die after being assigned the bomber skill.

How is Lemons Played?

To successfully complete the level, the player must assign certain Lemons specific skills. The quantity of skill assignments of each type is generally limited, requiring the player to best use the skills to solve each level.

There are eight skills that can be assigned. Two skills stay with the Lemon regardless of how they are reassigned:
“Climbers” will climb any vertical surface they hit, and “Floaters” can safely fall off from heights without injury.
“Bashers”, “Miners”, and “Diggers” cause the assigned Lemon to dig across, diagonally downward, or directly downward, respectively, through destructible material until they emerge into open air, hit indestructible material, or are reassigned.

“Builders” create a rising stairway of up to 12 steps, with audible cues when they are nearly done with their task to allow the player to reassign them if a longer stairway is needed.
“Blockers” will reverse the direction of all Lemons that hit them, and cannot be reassigned unless first the ground under their feet is removed. (They can be exploded, though.)

“Bombers” will continue whatever they were doing prior to assignment, but after 5 seconds (indicated by a countdown timer above their head) they will stop and explode, taking a small chunk out of any destructible environment around them. While the player is able to pause the game to inspect the level and status of the Lemons, skills can only be assigned in real-time.

Sequels to the Original

Lemmings has inspired a number of sequels, some which have modified the core gameplay but still involve the use of lemming skills to rescue lemmings. Xmas Lemmings and Oh No! More Lemmings contain the same gameplay as

Lemmings but provide a different set of levels to the player.

Lemmings 2: The Tribes introduces several new types of skills that can be assigned to the lemmings in addition to new levels. Similarly All New World of Lemmings (The Lemmings Chronicles in North America) alters some of the core mechanics of gameplay by reducing the number of key skills and adding other mechanics more typical of a two-dimensional platformer.

3D Lemmings brought the game into the third dimension with skills to take advantage of the additional dimension.

Lemmings Revolution returned to the original’s 2D gameplay and core skillset and mechanics, but featured pseudo-3D graphics, and some of the platformer mechanics originally introduced by The Lemmings Chronicles.

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Some Screenies

Although Lemons is based on Lemmings - this game is jam packed with brand new levels and newer skills.

Have a look at some of the levels below:

Some Later levels:

How to Complete each level?

To successfully complete the level, the player must assign certain Lemons specific skills. The quantity of skill assignments of each type is generally limited, requiring the player to best use the skills to solve each level.

There are eight skills that can be assigned. Two skills stay with the Lemon regardless of how they are reassigned: “Climbers” will climb any vertical surface they hit.

“Floaters” can safely fall off from heights without injury. “Bashers”, “Miners”, and “Diggers” cause the assigned Lemon to dig across, diagonally downward, or directly downward, respectively, through destructible material until they emerge into open air, hit indestructible material, or are reassigned.

“Builders” create a rising stairway of up to 12 steps, with audible cues when they are nearly done with their task to allow the player to reassign them if a longer stairway is needed. “Blockers” will reverse the direction of all Lemons that hit them, and cannot be reassigned unless first the ground under their feet is removed. (They can be exploded, though.)

“Bombers” will continue whatever they were doing prior to assignment, but after 5 seconds (indicated by a countdown timer above their head) they will stop and explode, taking a small chunk out of any destructible environment around them. While the player is able to pause the game to inspect the level and status of the Lemons, skills can only be assigned in real-time.