What is Tundra?

Tundra is a fully-featured recreation of the DMA Design title “Lemmings”, originally released in 1991. Since then it has been ported to a multitude of platforms, and is regarded by many as a cult classic. Simply put, you are in control of a group of small furry woodland creatures, who fall out of an entrance hatch and start aimlessly bumping into things. It is your job, as the gentle protagonist, to help these fine beasts of burden to the safety of the exit using skills such as climbing, building, bashing and digging.

Requirements

• Python, version 2.4 or above
• Pygame, the Python Imaging Library, and PyXML.
• Unless you’re a boring Windows user, in which case you need the long buttony thing and the handheld pointery thing. Oh and WinRAR.
• A DOS copy of Lemmings™ or Oh No! More Lemmings™

WARNING

This game was written as a learning exercise. The underlying code is shameful. Memory management just isn’t there. When faced with the option of just making it work and planning ahead for future generations, the former was always picked. As such, it will run slow. Very slow. As in don’t bother if your machine is less than 1.6GHz.

Download v0.7

Music packs: DOS (51mb, OGG), Amiga (493kb, MOD)

Screenshots

Upgrade Instructions

If you are upgrading from an older version of Tundra, please copy the following folders (and their contents) from your old release to your new release:

• ./pixmaps/lemmings
• ./pixmaps/count
• ./music
• ./levels
• ./styles

You can now safely discard the old release.
Not copying the above files will result in a loss of your game progress, as by default, the game will prune levels from the internal database that it cannot find in the resource folders.

Back up your [user folder]/.tundra file before updating the release if you’re paranoid.