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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

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  1. Hello! I’m having a problem while updating the game and it keeps popping up a “Wild choice dialog” and it closes… can anyone help me?

    1. Connecting from brazil? The webhosting party may be blocking you.. I’ve sent them a message it should be resolved soon.
      To start the game without updating, create a shortcut with the added parameter –noupdate.

  6. I love the game so much, but now, after updating, whenever I try to start a local game or try to play online the game crashes.
    Can someone please help me?

      1. No, I updated but it still doesn’t work. Every time it crashes a message pops up on screen, If there is a way for me to send you a screenshot, that would be great.

  8. Hi,

    When i try starting the game several “CellBlock 9 game engine” start and stop after a about half a second bevor new ones are starting. The game doesn’t start and to stop the processes i have to rename the folder to let the game/process crash.
    Do you have any ideas what i could do?

    1. Where did you unzip the game? and what executable are you starting? are you perhaps running from steam?

      You have to start the lbzwin.exe in the folder where you downloaded the game… not the cb9_1.exe in the engines folder…

      1. I tryed many places, most like directly under C – so C:\LemmingBallZALPHA.
        I start the lbzwin.exe from the just unzipped folder. (No Steam)

    1. ios…. only if someone donates me the required hardware. android… secretly working towards making the engine fast enough to run on the relatively slow processors of phones…

  10. how do I fight back in a ki struggle, I am so confused, every time I go in a ki struggle it always goes to me, is there a button to press to push it back or something???

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