Apocalypse Board Online is born with passion of three persons who each possessed his own competences,they had the will to present a multiplayers game in real time, evolved and deep but entierly playable from a web navigator.
After several years of reflexion and developpement, game is ready, with a completely amateur and independent system, it offers an inequalled depth of game for a web's game.
- September 2004 : Benjamin and Thomas meet with an announce posted on the web and start an amateur game's project together.
- May 2006 : date of oldest sketches, Angel and Nightmaker were the first units drawn by Thomas. 2 years of tests, of reflexions, of cancellation have been necessary before the definitive project... And it was just the beginning.
- Avril 2007 : background, gameplay and main graphic base are almost finished. Benjamin and Thomas start to find a Flash developper who can develop a real time game.
- Septembre 2007 : search is a failure, lack of motivation, promises no kept, deficient level but especially a big mistake of estimation of work's quantity, no developper can continue this adventure. Benjamin begins alone to learn Flash and client-server communication.
- Octobre 2007 : after one month of self-formation, Benjamin begins developpement. First code line is written the 1st October 2007.
- Février 2008 : exactly the 22nd, open-beta is online, thanks to a great community, debug can begin. And it won't early finish.
- Juillet 2008 : July the first, game version 1.0 is officially online. First reactions are good, but players are not very numerous.
- Juillet 2008 : the 30th July, Jeuxvideos.com writes an article about the game (http://www.jeuxvideo.com/news/2008/00027795-apocalypse-board-online-un-rpg-tactique-multijoueur.htm), number of players explodes. the 500 accounts from beginning goes high to 5000 in a few days.
- September 2008 : satisfied with the game, but not of general design, Thomas and Benjamin contact and convince Cédric to join them. The making of version 1.1 becomes version 2.0 thanks to total implication of Cédric who remakes all game's design but also website's design. A lot of improvements are brought, game takes another dimension.
- November 2008 : the 17th, afer several weeks of hard work, closed-beta is online.
- Décember 2008 : the 1st December, official version 2.0 of Apocalypse Board Online is online, adventure has just beginning !
They have participated:
Benjamin [ website ] : Flash Development and server side / Website
Thomas : Character design, drawings and colorisations
Cédric "Redone" [ website ] : Interface design, webdesign
Thank you to...
Sebb (Revolution2.0) : Sound design
Athanase : for helping on the gameplay, equilibration and moderation of game / forum.
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