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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. Hi there. I’ve installed the game but after starting it it brings up a screen that says ‘Upgrading’ and then it crashes and shows a message saying: “Exception_Access_Violation”. Please help solve this as i am very eager to play this game again. :)

    1. Hi. Could you tell me what version you have? If you right click the exe and select properties, it should show a version number on the tab details…

    2. Try downloading Glary utilities and run it on your PC, that should fix the problem. :)

      1. We also had this problem inside the game for a while. As you know LBZ is in active development. We try to work without creating errors, but sometimes they do slip trough…

  3. It keeps sayain see what i did there but it keeps saying that fmodex.dll is missing but it is crearly instaled! help!
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    1. Hi! Quick question, where did you put the game? Are you perhaps starting the game directly from the .ZIP file?
      The game needs to be extracted to a normal folder before you can run it…

  5. Awesome game! The only thing I’d suggest is a tutorial for special moves and such, it took me a while to figure it out for myself.

  6. doesnt start windows 8.1 download it exctract it place it to C:/Games start the exe its seems you are running for the first time creating document folder lbz needs to restart and then nothing happens i click again to open it after a fiew minutes and still nothing happens help

    1. Okay.. i’ll take a look. the “does not start after installing profile” is a known problem. But when you start c:\Games\lbzwin.exe it should start up again right away.
      Did you get any dialog about windows smart screen?

    1. Hi. Have you tried the “forgot password” link from the login screen?

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