Month: November 2015

A new version of the Lemmingball Z engine has been released.

While i am hard at work with preparing a room for my son (to be born February 2015) i did find some time to work on LBZ. I held a coding weekend while my wife attended a conference back at the end of September. During this coding weekend i removed ALL of the dangerous new/delete c++ code that is no longer needed since the c++11 and c++14 standards. This means: lots a bug-fixes…

The process also inspired me to take a hard look at the LGS scripting language. From this was born the idea to added classes and objects in LGS allowing for a few simple Object Oriented tricks in new scripts… This in turn lead me to creating TESTS for the LGS language… to see if what i think the language does matches with what is actually happening. With these new tests, when and if i f*ck something up, I’ll know! :)

Anyways: The LGS language received an upgrade:

• Define your own datatypes (classes)
• New datatype “object” (can store anything, can have a class)
• New concept “references”, you can now make a reference a objects and strings.
• variables that are “playerglobal” “moveglobal” or “global” are now without limits… define as many as you need, and strings and objects are now also supported as globals.
• Enhanced speed of the scripts, and reduced required memory to run them.
• catchevent and catchallevents can now take catch multiple event at once: (catchevent(A,B) { //code })
• All internal LGS variables and functions are now defined in the same list: allowing me to add functions and variables easier.
• Better handling of LGS crashes.
• LGS is better tested, and a lot of weird bugs have been killed.

Greezz@all

The pure LBZ gameplay was made for Dragonball characters. Ichigo and Kakashi clearly do not fit into that sheme.

Thats why their movesets got a bit changed  and now focus them mostly on being melee experts.

This means:

• Kakashis long range attacks are reduced to shuriken, kunai and giant horizontal shuriken (working like the horizontal beams)
• Ichigos long range attacks have been reduced to horizontal ones
• The strength of their close range attacks has been increased

A weird side effect is, that these two are now perfect characters for newbies to learn how to play, as well as overpowered weapons for skilled players.

I guess, we will have to nerf them a lot in next time, but for now…

… have fun!