Loupgarenne

A modern fork of Lugaru HD

Loupgarenne is a fork of OSS Lugaru focused on technical improvements and modern platform support. The goal is to add enhancements to Lugaru while preserving the original gameplay experience.

Features implemented

• Unlocked framerate with variable timestep physics
• Fully frame-rate independent animations, timers, and visual effects
• Apple Silicon (ARM64) support for macOS builds
• UI fixes
• Build pipeline improvements and refactoring

Features I'd like to see implemented

• Anisotropic texture filtering
• Proper anti-aliasing
• Enhanced shadows
• Settings to improve view distance
• Enhanced font rendering
• More builds: Linux ARM64, FreeBSD, CentOS etc. Nintendo Switch?
• Wasm compilation (playable in browser)
• Controller support (probably model from Lugaru's controls)
• Lever editor tweaks (priority is low)

Credits

• Original game: Wolfire Games - Lugaru HD
• Open source project: OSS Lugaru team
• This fork: Loupgarenne

Getting the game data

This repository includes the complete source code along with all required game data files.
• The source code is released under the GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version (GPL v2+). • The game assets (models, textures, audio, campaigns, etc.) found in the Data folder are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution‑ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) and/or the Creative Commons Attribution‑ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) licences, as specified in the CONTENT-LICENSE.txt file

You can play the game directly without purchasing additional assets.

If you enjoy the game, please consider supporting the original developers by buying Lugaru HD:

• Steam
• Humble Bundle

Installation

Download the latest release for your platform from the Releases page:

• Windows: loupgarenne-x.x-windows-x64.zip (64-bit) or loupgarenne-x.x-windows-x86.zip (32-bit)

• macOS: loupgarenne-x.x-macos-universal.zip (Intel and Apple Silicon)

• Linux: loupgarenne-x.x-linux-x64.tar.gz

• Extract the archive and run the executable (lugaru.exe on Windows, lugaru on Linux, or the app bundle on macOS)

Project links

Upstream OSS Lugaru:

• GitLab repository: https://gitlab.com/osslugaru/lugaru
• Project website: https://osslugaru.gitlab.io

The game

Lugaru (pronounced Loo-GAH-roo) is a cross-platform third-person action game. The main character, Turner, is an anthropomorphic rebel bunny rabbit with impressive combat skills. In his quest to find those responsible for slaughtering his village, he uncovers a far-reaching conspiracy involving the corrupt leaders of the rabbit republic and the starving wolves from a nearby den. Turner takes it upon himself to fight against their plot and save his fellow rabbits from slavery.

Name

Loupgarenne takes inspiration from the French loup-garou, meaning werewolf, which is also the origin of the name Lugaru. Garenne is, in modern French, a word for a rabbit warren - making it a fitting double meaning for a game centred on rabbits and wolves.

History

Lugaru was originally developed by David Rosen of Wolfire Games and was open sourced in 2010. It was made cross-platform with the help of Ryan C. Gordon.

Various forks were made at that time, and the most interesting developments were put back together under the OSS Lugaru organization, originally on Google Code and then on Bitbucket.

The OSS Lugaru repository on GitLab is run by the OSS Lugaru team, aiming to revitalise the development effort, clean things up, ensure the code base builds and runs fine on all supported platforms, and ease packaging of Lugaru in Linux distributions.

Loupgarenne is a fork of OSS Lugaru focused on enhancements, technical improvements and modern platform support.

Compiling

See the COMPILING.md for compilation instructions on all supported platforms.

Support

This is a passion project, not a profit project! If you'd like to buy me a coffee:

Licensing

The source code is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2 or (at your option) any later version (GPLv2+).

The assets (campaigns, graphical and audio assets, etc.) in the Data folder are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alike license, some in version 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-SA 3.0) and others in version 4.0 International (CC-BY-SA 4.0) as described in the CONTENT-LICENSE.txt file.