For the first time since the first release and the start of our release cycle every two weeks we are happy to release a version on time and as planned on thursday :)

But the version is not only on time - it also includes lots of great updates thanks to your feedback!

Major Updates:

- new location New York inlcuding new boss fight
- finally ICS Support (Android 4.x) - sorry it took us so long!
- content files encrypted now to prevent gamedata mismatch and cheating
- improve experience for first tme gamers -  you start directly in level
- Improve Gameflow with notification system - know when there is new stuff available
- lots of bugs as usual :)


Please also see our roadmap to see whats we are working on! Thanks for your help and see you in our forums!

SoulCraft is optimized for Tegra 3 and it really runs best on these devices. Actually our favourite playing device in our office is the nice Asus Transformer Prime running on Tegra 3. So it was really annoying when we noticed that SoulCraft no longer runs on it after we have updated the device to ICS. Since almost all Tegra 3 devices run on ICS this was really bad.
We tried to fix the problems for a few days as fast as possible until we realized the problem is not under our control. We are using quite a few third party libraries for SoulCraft and one of these libraries would not work with ICS. Since we do not have the source code of these third party libraries there was nothing we could do but to report the bug and pray :)

Luckily - thanks to the hard work of the third party library provider (and of course our praying) - the error is now fixed and the game runs on very well on Ice Cream Sandwich (see pic). We will ship the fix with the next release on thursday together with a few more great updates :)

Sorry for the delay in making ICS work and looking forward to sharing it with you on thursday!

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