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LEMMINGS-STYLE PUZZLE × COACH TRIP

Day Trippers

Lemmings, but they’re pensioners on a coach trip to Blackpool. Get them to the bingo before the coach leaves.

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⏱ SEVENTEEN DAYS OUT · RUNS IN YOUR BROWSER · SAVES AUTOMATICALLY

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The machine replaced the Lemmings bomber with a pensioner who blows a gasket and goes home in a huff. It replaced the builder with knitting. It has never met a pensioner. It understands them perfectly.

THE ENTIRE GAME DESIGN DOCUMENT

THE PROMPT THAT STARTED IT ALL 🧠

> A lemmings style puzzle game, but they're pensioners and levels are typical pensioner locations like Blackpool.▌

That’s it. That’s the brief. Everything else — every line of code, every pixel, every note — came out of the machine. Typos preserved for authenticity.Disclosure: a human may have intervened afterwards, when the machine made the first upgrade cost more than the GDP of Wales, or decided a run should last eleven hours. Even then, the human only fixed it by typing more prompts and sighing loudly. 🫠

About the Slop

Day Trippers is a puzzle game in the style of Lemmings. A coach party of pensioners gets off at the seaside and sets off walking straight ahead, whatever is in the way. You can’t steer them. Instead you give individual pensioners jobs so the rest reach the bingo, the tea room or the chippy before the coach leaves.

The eight skills are pensioner versions of the Lemmings ones: a stairlift to climb, a brolly to float, a blown gasket instead of a bomb, a tartan shopping trolley to block, knitting a scarf staircase, pushing a zimmer frame through walls, and digging with a spade or a garden trowel.

Seventeen days out, from Blackpool and Skegness to Whitby, Benidorm and the Tower Ballroom, each solved by the tests and played through in a browser. Every pensioner has a name, and the end-of-day postcard says who didn’t make it and why. Bingo’s off sends everybody fuming. No pensioners were harmed. Several were mildly inconvenienced.

🎮 CONTROLS

  • Click a pensioner to give them the skill
  • 1–8 selects a skill
  • Arrows or A and D to scroll
  • F fast-forwards, Space or P pauses, R restarts
  • N twice for Bingo’s off

✨ GAME-CHANGING FEATURES

  • Seventeen days out, from Blackpool to the Tower Ballroom
  • Eight pensioner skills: stairlift, brolly, gasket, trolley, knitter, zimmer, spade and trowel
  • A pixel-grid world that’s dug, zimmered, blown up and knitted onto
  • Every pensioner has a name, and the postcard says who didn’t make it
  • Bingo’s off: everybody blows a gasket
  • Seaside, music-hall, bandstand and ballroom tunes

How To Play

A quick guide for your first session. The machine wrote the game; we wrote this bit from its README.

  1. Read the briefing postcard: how many pensioners are on the coach, how many must get home, and which skills you have.

  2. The pensioners walk straight ahead. Pick a skill with 1 to 8 or the buttons, then click a pensioner to give it to them.

  3. Use trowels and spades to dig down, knitters to build up and over, zimmers to go through, and brollies for long drops.

  4. Park a trolley to turn everyone back. Blow a gasket on a drain cover to free a pensioner minding a trolley.

  5. Get enough of them to the exit before the coach leaves. Falls of more than sixty pixels and water are bad news.

  6. Speed things up with F, restart with R, and if it all goes wrong, call Bingo’s off.

Actual In-Game Footage

These are real screenshots. Somehow these are the least AI-looking images on the site.

The title screen: a seaside postcard with a line of pensioners shuffling across it with walking sticks and handbags, over the Blackpool promenade at dusk🔍 ENHANCEBlackpool: a pensioner kneels with a trowel and digs down through the promenade towards the bingo hall on the sands, with the Tower and the illuminations behind🔍 ENHANCEMorecambe: pensioners float down off the sea wall under brollies, one shouting WHEE, past the statue on the prom🔍 ENHANCEWeston-super-Mare: one pensioner has knitted a scarf staircase over the gap in the pier boards, while the rest wait behind the closed kiosk🔍 ENHANCEWhitby at night: the abbey steps mended with knitting, a pensioner zimmering through the abbey wall and another digging down the far side with a spade🔍 ENHANCEBenidorm: the coach party waits on the ground floor of the Hotel Sol, having dug down through every floor, while a knitted bridge crosses the pool to the bar🔍 ENHANCEThe Tower Ballroom: pensioners stream through a zimmered column on the balcony and down over the organ, towards the knitted bridge over the orchestra pit🔍 ENHANCEThe briefing for Whitby, a postcard listing the pensioners on the coach, how many must get home, when the coach leaves and the skills on offer🔍 ENHANCEThe coach trips: seventeen postcards from Blackpool to the Tower Ballroom, each with the best result so far🔍 ENHANCE
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