Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Perfect Vacation

Marcus in his Dragon Tamer costume
Enough is enough! Sometimes you just need a rest. Even computer nerds like us! =)
Staffan recently returned home from his vacation with his wife. I think they were hiking somewhere or something. I guess I have to ask him about it later.
Now it is my turn to take a break. I will be leaving soon to participate in Dragonbane - a huge international LARP project taking place in Älvdalen in the middle of Sweden. It will be quite something since they actually have made the effort to build a REAL Dragon, who can speak, see at night and breath fire! Come to think of it... maybe we could add a Dragon in Perfect Battle Online too... and while were at it, some demons, orcs and magical bunnies... sounds good!? No, just kidding of course! =) I wouldn´t like to have bunnies in Perfect Battle Online. If you want to know more about the Dragonbane project check out dragonbane.org Interesting reading! Anyway, since I will be gone for a while it might take a few weeks before the blog gets updated again. But by then I will have even more to write about!

Marcus Lindmark

Sunday, July 16, 2006

Deadly music!

Well here we are again with a new post!! First of all I would like to thank everyone who has commented on this blog. We just love it when people write to us. Keep it coming! =) Okay enough with that, what is new? Well first of all Staffan has done a lot of programming on the teamplay mode of the game. Hopefully it will be fully working real soon. I on the other hand have composed an all new song for Sudden Death!

Sudden what?! Well let me explain. Usually when there isn´t any time left in the game an angry red sign appears all over the screen - stating that it is SUDDEN DEATH!. This means that everything in the game, tanks, turrets, towers even factories and bases, blows up with only one shot - from any weapon! We invented this game mode to be able to speed up the game a little bit, add more excitment and end a tiresome game more quickly. Now we take this game mode even further by making the music change. It is like when Super Mario gets a magical star (in the classic Nintendo game with the same name) the music changes and gets really fast. Well the same thing will happen in Sudden Death for Perfect Battle Online. That will be something alright! See ya soon!

/Marcus Lindmark

Monday, July 03, 2006

Make a sexy team... and win!

Staffan plays the PBO on his über big monitor!Eh... well forget about the sexy part... hrm... Anyway what' s new then?! Well the team play part actually is! Soon it will be possible to play Perfect Battle Online, together with your friends in teams with the same color and challenge them over the Internet. That will be cool! =) For example, Red against blue with
four players in each color/team.

Marcus writes down new features for the team play mode

This new game mode opens up for new possibilities, but also for new problems. One thing we discussed was how to share the resources between the team members and how the upgrades would work. For example if a red player wants to upgrade his ship factory, will then all of the team members gain this upgrade or only he/she? We are working on a solution and we have a few different ideas. But as always, suggestions are warmly welcome. Please comment this post if you come up with something.

That' s all for now! /Marcus Lindmark