This production is a research related test of community development in indie games development. "Battles" was an original game concept developed by Farmind Ltd during 2006 for Sony PSP. Game was put on hold an was not developed further.

Oulu university Game Research Center was established in 2009 and as part of the game business model research "Battles" was contributed to research by Farmind Ltd.

All commercial rights are reserved by Farmind Ltd but the core team of community developers will be compensated accordingly. This is part of the research project: Can a commercial game be developed as volunteer community effort?

Game concept will be changed during the development to fit non-video game platform release. Possible platforms are mobile (iPhone, Android, Maemo), Facebook, Xbox Live Indie and other suitable platforms. Tools will be open source or low cost.

For more information, please contact ari.kangasniemi@oulu.fi