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Fell asleep last night thinking about Holiday Lemmings 1994 and how nice it'd be, in an odd way, if there was still someone in the little original DMA Design office in Dundee, cranking out another 3.5" floppy disk of Holiday Lemmings levels once a year in an unbroken streak since the 90s, just someone who got really good at designing Lemmings levels and got to do that forever, throwing in some new lovingly drawn graphics and animations here and there, nice little touches for the dedicated fans who eagerly await the year's new level disk in the post, games as seasonal comfort media, games created outside of time and tech-determinism and capitalism itself, games you can make infinite fun little levels for, level design as folk practice, level design as an old friend you see once or twice a year, level design as a tasty holiday dish they make and share with a few friends, that only they know how to make in just the right way. in the little office above the french restaurant.