About

Lemmingball Z

Lemmingball Z is a fighting game for linux and windows, loosely based on `Dragonball Z` the hit anime. And when we say loosely based, we mean with a big twist. Instead off the normal characters from the anime, this game features cute LEMMINGS fighting DBZ style!

Main features

• Destructible 3d terrain
• Ability to add your own levels/characters/moves to the game
• Multiplayer with 2-4 players online or local
• Good old-fashioned Hot-seat play
• Slow-motion, like in “The Matrix”
• Fancy graphics, like cell-shading and stuff
• Netplay, without configuring or hamachi
• Stupid AI to practice with
• Blood! lots of it! ?

History

LBZ was created somewhere at the end of 1999 and the start of 2000. It was my first try at making a game, up till then i only coded small utility’s/effects. LBZ was first written in Quick BASIC, for DOS and it had 800×600 resolution and sprites, and very basic gameplay. When the game became to big for basic, i ported it to PASCAL and then almost immediately to C++ (using OpenGL for graphics). After this LBZ quickly evolved, it got features like destructible terrain and slow-motion.

The future

LBZ is a bit of a “pet project”…. it will constantly evolve. I don’t plan on stopping with this, since it’s a lot of fun working on LBZ! Things i would like to create for LBZ in the future include:

• Interactive levels, with scripts, triggered events
• 100% mod-ability! Be able to mod any aspect of the game. 60% done.
• Ports to most major game consoles