#dkgame

Hello Anturn. Sadly not a lot is left of the Powerbabe game. I've asked various people who worked on it for anything they might have left, but there's really nothing.

That said, I have found certain things. The founder of the studio, Camilla Lyngbo Wolden-Ræthinge has re-entered the game development scene and is making a spiritual sequel to the game now, which you can read more about here: https://fightlikeagirlgames.com/

Powerbabe started out named Bitch-spillet (or "The bitch game") and was an attempt to take back some of the ugly names used by girls against other girls around the school yards, in a feminist bid for empowerment. After it had been running for a year or two at Pinkfloor's own website, they made a deal with DR (The Danish Radio broadcast company) to host it on their SKUM subsite for Danish youths, where it became immensely popular. In fact it became so popular that DR itself produced a short documentary on it, which is currently unavailable, locked away somewhere in the DR archives. Part of this documentary has however been included in the documentary "Loading - historien om Danmarks spilpionerer" available here: https://www.dr.dk/drtv/serie/loading-_-historien-om-danmarks-spilpionerer_282628 (if you're locked out of viewing it, you might need a Danish VPN) Eventually Pinkfloor was bought out by Egmont who had big plans for expanding the brand into a transmedia franchise. A YA book was made ("Powerbabe Level 1" - https://www.dba.dk/recommerce/forsale/item/2158670), as well as a mobile J2ME game ("Power Babe: Flirt Club" - https://djuzz.wordpress.com/2010/02/14/featured-game-powerbabe-flirt-club-hovr/).

On top of that a pilot of a TV-series ("The Powerbabe Show") was shot, which has, uh, *not* aged gracefully. I am currently uploading it to the Internet Archive, where you should be able to find it shortly. The source is a promotional DVD-R that I managed to stumble upon that appears to have been made to try and sell the show to potential distributors.

As you mentioned there was indeed a prototype produced of the Powerbabe PS2 game. I sadly do not have a copy of that, but I know that Andrew Borman of the Strong Museum *do* in fact have a copy. If you somehow come across one, please let me know so I can make sure the Royal Danish Library can put it into the national collection.

I finally got around to returning to Hex FRVR updating the game to implement some of the new platform features I have been working on for the FRVR Apprentice program.

From a technical and pipeline perspective the most complex feature is the new fully integrated localisation flow which means that Hex FRVR is now live in 26 languages such as Korean, Hindi, Spanish, Norwegian and many more. Use this link to be send the version for your browser language.

As an experiment I also introduced a new token system, where players are awarded tokens when getting 2+ line combos. These tokens can in turn be used to unlock themes that visually changes the look of the game drastically.

Alternatively the themes can be unlocked on mobile with in app purchases ranging from $0.99 to $24.99 as yet another experiment.

It’s going to be interesting to see if these more complex features are worth the extra effort they require to make.