DR. LEPUS - The last rabbit on earth (LDJAM 35)

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#1

Hello Guys,

we are proud to present you our first LDJAM game entry.

[h1]DR. LEPUS - The last rabbit on earth[/h1]

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Development:
The game is written in our own self written engine called the “LitiEngine” implemeted in JAVA 8 without the help of external libraries.

The Game:

You play as DR. LEPUS, struggling for survival in a world full of brain-hungry zombies.
DR. LEPUS constructed a sophisticated machine -THE LEPOTRANSFORMATOR-
to turn himself into a rabbit and live happily ever after. Unfortunately, the machine broke and wasn’t able to turn him into a rabbit permanently. Now he can only shapeshift when consuming carrots.

By eating painkillers and drinking beer, DR. LEPUS is able to endure the strains of zombie apocalypse just a little longer.

Help DR. LEPUS salvage electric devices in order to repair the LEPOTRANSFORMATOR.
And remember…
AIM FOR THEIR HEADS!

CONTROLS:
Aim with the mouse
Move with W,A,S,D
Shoot with the left mouse button
Use items with 1, 2, 3

Some Screenshots:

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LDJAM Version Playthrough Video:

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[h1]Download Here[/h1]
[h2]Game Website[/h2]

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#2

I liked your game. Have you plans to continue with its development?

#3

Thank’s for the kind words :slight_smile:

Actually we plan to tweak the game a bit more and release it. I’ll keep you up to date on the progress :wink:

#4

It doesn’t run at all for me. I get a major minor version unsupported error message which I’m guessing is because you compiled with Java 1.8 but didn’t target a lower version.

Not everyone is using 1.8 yet so you may want compile the source code for a lower Java version like 1.6 would to ensure most people wouldn’t need to update. Just my opinion but personally I am not ready to update to 1.8.

#5

Maintenance of 1.7 (not to speak of 1.6) stopped a while ago - you even don’t find 1.7 downloads on the official oracle java pages, so why bother limiting yourself (in terms of new features introduced in 1.7 or 1.8 ) with setting a lower target?
Do you have a specific reason to not update to 1.8? Since the backwards compatibility works in most cases there is almost no reason to stay on an older release. I also had some troubles back in the days and had to have different java versions on one PC for compatibility issues - but I was able to fix all of them at last.

#6

We’re using features that were introduced with Java 8 (e.g. lambda expressions). So it would be hard to provide a 1.7 or even 1.6 version of the engine.
Right now, we don’t see the effort being worth it.

#7

We’ve been working hard on DR.LEPUS for the last few month.

Our self written Java Game Engine “Litiengine” in now finally at a state where we can create things without the need to implement further core functionality.
We’ve put together a new post about the ongoing changes on DR.LEPUS on our Website which you can read up here:
[h3]News about DR.LEPUS[/h3]