In our recent update of the game 0.5.5. you may have already noticed a small change: You get real gold when you like us on facebook here: facebook.com/SoulCraftGame

However it is important you press the button from within the game so we know you pressed it - have fun and thanks for liking us!

Since we do not have a "real" tutorial yet, we wanted to have at least a video showing how to play the game .. and here it is:

Probably the most important thing is that you need to HOLD down the attack button and keep pressing. Dont just touch and release :)

Here is the video:

Today we have reached 50000 Soulcraft downloads :) Thanks for playing our Tegra beta version! We wil support more devices very soon!

Here  you can download the latest update featuring the new location Cambodia. SoulCraftGame.com

We are happy to announce that we just released the new and improved SoulCraft 0.5.5 together with a new location called "Cambodia".

We hope we have taken as much of your feedback as possible into account and put it into this new version. Work of course is always ongoing as you can see on our public roadmap for SoulCraft!

Changelog version 0.5.5
- new loaction Cambodia
- include Honeytracks so we know whats going on
- add YouTube VIdeo Tutorial for Ingame gameplay
- Move whole game into the azure cloud
- give gold for SoulCraft likes on facebook
- Level 3D fixes
- lots of other fixes

Have fun :)

As you know SoulCraft is in open beta and therefore we would like to hear bugs from you. While the forums are certainly the best way to discuss new features wishes, they are probably not the best way to report bugs. It is quite hard to keep track of these bugs when they are somewhat hidden in a discussion board.

Thats why we tried to think of an easy way to report bugs for you. While it is probably best to give you access to our internal bug tracking system, this is not so easy to do. Thats why we start with this Google Docs form for now. So please use this form und report your bugs! Thanks a lot!

https://docs.google.com/a/exdream.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGpvYW0ydC1UU0xUc1VjUXdZcy1HM0E6MQ#gid=0

The Android Open Beta currently only runs on NVIDIA tegra devices - and for some good reason because especially those new tegra 3 chips are  pretty powerful and cool. (I personally like the 250 (!) USD new Tegra 3 device announced at CES) - Also we come from a PC & console development background so working with NVIDIA was kind of natural for us :)

However of course we also want to support all the other Android devices and therefore we looked into some statistics what other devices are out there and to figure out the most important devices. We found the following statistics which is really interesting and we wanted to share with you - as expected the Samsung Galaxy S2 is the most important Android device .. .however it only has around 10% market share in total! Still it will be one of the first non-tegra devices we will support.

http://www.appbrain.com/stats/top-android-phones

We have just uploaded SoulCraft 0.5.4. based on your initial reaction to the game. Hope you like the changes and please discuss them with us in the forums!

Please also see our roadmap if you want to have a bigger picture where the game is heading and discuss this roadmap with us!

We really appreciate your support for SoulCraft and thats why we are happy to announce, that all gold you buy during the beta will be doubled as soon as version 1.0 will be released!

CHANGELOG v. 0.5.4
- improve background issues for higher aspect ration than 1.66
- give 3 potions to new characters
- update AdMob SDK and fixed AdMobHelper, ads working now in Soulcraft
- fixed sound metadata loading, add sound length (fixes some sound looping issues)
- improve arena mode, one more wave at the start
- improve idle and won angel animations for metagame
- show controls help screen before game starts
- fixed sound looping bug after level end

First let me say a quick thank you for the great reception to our SoulCraft beta launch. We are really happy with the amount of downloads and the feedback we get from all of you. Thanks for playing & testing the game and helping us to make the best Action RPG on mobile platforms!

But now lets look at the things to come. Today we had our first big meeting to start with the roadmap of the coming weeks also based on the initial feedback we got from you - the players. We want to make it as transparent as possible to you what we are planning to add to the game so you can discuss this with us and help us prirotize even better. This is not an easy task since we have thousands of things on our wish list and deciding what to do first is really hard. Therefore we decided to make the roadmap public. Please comment the roadmap in our forums. Thanks :)

You will probably also see some features in the roadmap which you rather not have included into the game .. my first guess would be the integration of Admob ads :) (actually they were implemented from the beginning but they are buggy right now). However please note that we need to earn at least our wages to keep the development going and thats why these things are necessary to fund a free2play game. Actually right now we need to do other "work for hire" projects to fund the development of SoulCraft - but of course at some point SoulCraft needs to pay for itself. We hope you will help us to make SoulCraft a success and to find the right balance!

So again - please have a look at our roadmap and tell us what you think in our forums - thanks!

After the unofficial "soft launch" of SoulCraft on Saturday (or better Sunday morning), today we are launching the game officially.

It turned out to be a good idea to have a small soft launch before the official one, because today we were able to do a small update to also support the Tegra powered phones  :)

(Changed Minumus Android OS required from 3.1 to 2.3).

We are very happy with the initial launch with over 1000 downloads and awesome feedback in the first 24 hours even we did not make any marketing at all (our facebook fanpage only had about 50 fans!!) - great word of mouth obviously :) Thanks very much for your ongoing feedback which will help us shape the game together with you. Please look forward to a bigger update in the coming weeks with lots of improvements and new content. We will keep you posted!

But now - have fun playing the game! Go to SoulCraftGame.com and start downloading!

For the record - here you go with our official press release from today:

Android open beta started for the indie-developed free2play Action-RPG SoulCraft, as featured by NVIDIA at CES

•    free2play Action-RPG “SoulCraft" now available for multi-core NVIDIA Tegra 2 and Tegra 3-powered Android devices in Open Beta
•    Created with own Delta Engine by indie game developer MobileBits (http://deltaengine.net)
•    Shape the future of the game together with MobileBits in open beta: http://SoulCraftGame.com/feedback.html  
•    When Angels, Humans & Demons fight, it will be up to you who wins
•    Watch the trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDWDgTkuDXc
•    As featured by NVIDIA at CES 2012 and Tegra Zone app

After almost 2 years of development, the free2play Action RPG game SoulCraft is now available in the Android Market and featured on the NVIDIA Tegra Zone for multi-core Tegra 2 and Tegra 3-powered mobile devices. Gamers can now choose their favorite side when angels, demons and humans fight to see who will win the apocalypse.

Players are invited to take part in the open beta to continuously tweak and improve the game. “SoulCraft is for real gamers – and what better way to get feedback than to let gamers actually play the game?" asks Boje Holtz, Producer of SoulCraft.

MobileBits will discuss the progress of the game with its developer diary on http://SoulCraftGame.com/feedback.html

As the game has been developed with MobileBits’ own multiplatform technology Delta Engine (also available for third parties at http://deltaengine.net) and the game will eventually run on all Android devices, iOS, Windows Phone 7 and even on the PC, MobileBits is debuting SoulCraft on NVIDIA® Tegra®-powered Android devices first. This includes a specially optimized version for Tegra 3, the world’s first quad-core mobile processor.

“Working with NVIDIA, we were able to bring real console-quality gaming to mobile, with no compromises,” said Karsten Wysk, CEO of MobileBits. “We can’t wait for consumers to experience SoulCraft‘s action, gameplay and out-of-this-world graphics, and give us feedback during the open beta so we can make the game even better.”

The Tegra 3-optimized version of SoulCraft uses 4 cores with HD background models, textures and physical particles. SoulCraft is featured on NVIDIA’s Tegra Zone app, where consumers can find optimized games for Tegra-powered super phones and tablets. 

For more information, visit http://SoulCraftGame.com, download the Android Open Beta and help us make SoulCraft even better.
Thanks :)

About MobileBits
MobileBits is an independent developer for every platform with an AppStore (iPhone, Android, WP7,...). The 25-people-strong-team is based in Hamburg and Hannover, Germany and has been developing games for more than 10 years for PC, XBox360 and the PS3 under the name exDream (see exDream.com). MobileBits now fully concentrates on games for AppStore-platforms and the Delta Engine. Please see http://mobilebits.de for more details.

About Delta Engine
The Delta Engine allows you to develop applications and especially games for all major AppStore platforms completely under Windows with .NET by using your favorite tools. It is free to use (on Windows, see Licensing), Open Source and written in 100% .NET.
The Delta Engine currently supports Windows, iPad, iPhone, Android, Android Tablets, Windows Phone 7 and more platforms in the future.