Perfect Battle Online Special Edtion is out!

Finally! There is a new version of Perfect Battle Online (PBO) at our homepage.
Perfect Battle Online Special Edtion.

This Special Edition adds a new campaign called Felicias Quest with briefing sound. Voice by Sara Nyström and Marcus Lindmark.
It also adds new maps, new text files and new background textures.
New hints has also been added for all the map files.
Finally the source code is now open source!

This is also probably the last version of PBO that will be released by us. It has been five long years since we started to work on Perfect Battle, that later evolved into Perfect Battle Online. Since then many things has changed. When we began this project we used to meet up every week in Staffans and his wifes apartment. Usually we ate dinner, played soccer, and then worked on this game. Staffan did the programming and Marcus worked on either the graphics, music or writing down stuff about the game. Then in 2007 Marcus and his girlfriend decided to move from Stockholm to Gothenburg. Staffan felt that he was finished with PBO and moved on to other projects. Marcus was however not quite finished.

Marcus created a handful of new maps and even wrote a new sequel to the Massive Invasion campaign, starring Felicia Frost, Mikes younger sister. Then Marcus used a old hidden feature in PBO to add speech to the campaign. Marcus and his girlfriend Sara recorded the voices together, and the result was Felicias Quest. But the big challenge was not adding new maps but making the game open source.

We have a vision that PBO will live on, even if we the creators no longer keeps updating it. And the only way to make that happen was to release the source code to the public. So Marcus started to browse web pages about open source licenses and we decided to use the GNU license for PBO. Of course there also was some work writing a txt-file to explain how to edit the source. But that worked out well to. And now finally you has the chance to experince all this. Both the new game AND the source code are available at our homepage for download. We have tested to compile the source and it should work fine (at least the source for the game), IF you follow the instructions in the readme.txt file included.

Anyway. Thanks for this time. We will keep providing PBO at our homepage for at least a year longer from now. But if you want to keep our site running please make a small donation. It cost us around 50$ each year to have our homepage on the Internet so it would be great with some support.

Bye for now!

/Marcus Lindmark