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While the engine itself is decent, it's not like you'd want to use the existing assets anyway if you were building a game of it. I still don't understand why they went with rabbits instead of people in uniform (samurai, pikemen, ninjas, ...). It just doesn't feel right.

Besides given their past actions, if you really want to use the assets for a commercial project I'm sure they'd have a reasonable license for it.

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I thought the idea of rabbits excellent. It's something new, especially because of the darker mood the game has, and give some passable excuses for the jumps and throws not break the suspension of disbelief.

I think it fitted quite right.

Usagi Yojimbo is a rabbit samurai, and the plot is really nice (http://www.usagiyojimbo.com/). Rabbits as humanized characters aren't something original on Lugaru, but yeah, it definitely fitted right.

Lugaru seemed nice to me (actually I ended up donating some bucks and getting the 5 games, even though they went open), just didn't have time to play them extensively, except for world of Goo, which is addicting (but that goes for another thread). :)

As far as I understand, the game engines went open. Lugaru's characters, levels, textures, models and story will probably be kept commercial.

I don't think you could play the real Lugaru game without paying or pirating it.

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