Absolutely wild this doesn't use <canvas>! I remember playing this way back in the day, before I was a SWE, and didn't really appreciate that fact. Of course, I'm sure it predates being able to effectively use the canvas... but still! Super cool.

I can't seem to find it online anywhere, but I'm also reminded of the knockoff game "Flea Circus" which I played in grade school :)

> Of course, I'm sure it predates being able to effectively use the canvas...

Predates it at all. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ca... says browser support didn't come until 2005 at the earliest.

The first version is from 2003: https://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_message/18377456#1...

It got taken down shortly after that by BREIN, the Dutch copyright watchdog, but it lives on as Pumpkins.

Amazing that JS from the Internet Explorer era still works well 20 years later.

Some more context from the author: https://crisp.home.xs4all.nl/lemmings/brein1.html

This aged really well, I had no idea how impressive this was when I first played it either. The only thing is the cookies, which might break after 26 years:

function setcookie(id, cookievars) {

  document.cookie = id+'='+cookievars+'; expires=Monday, 20-May-2030 05:00:00 GMT';

}

I definitely played it around 2001 when it was posted to slashdot!

Anyone know why this is hosted on a metal band's website?

From what I see, bot the developer of the DHTML version and the band are from Netherlands, and the developer had to take the game down from his site [0]

So maybe somebody uploaded it in support.

  0: https://crisp.home.xs4all.nl/lemmings/lemmings.html

Dynamic HTML? This thing doesn't use canvas, pretty cool.

Can I please get some codes to do further levels?

The furthest I have handy is 12: KOMHCMOMCX

a shame it has no sound

It used to (see control.js) but it doesn't seem to be working anymore.