SongArc gets over 73,000 plays in first week, cements place as best music game on Windows Phone

SongArc is a brand new game that'south unique to Windows Phone. It went into beta earlier this summer and merely hit the Windows Phone Store a calendar week ago. Quite a bit has happened in just that beginning week of being on the Shop. And so we're going to dive in on the electric current progress of SongArc and its time to come on Windows Telephone.

In the first week on the Windows Phone Store, SongArc saw fourteen,000 users playing 1,600 different sheets. They played over 73,000 games. Speaking of games, SongArc is currently ranked every bit the #ane music game across a variety of categories in the Windows Phone Store.

Going forrard there's an update coming out soon to the Windows Telephone Store that will address a variety of bugs in the app. Here's what it targets:

Pocket-sized fixes to the editor
Accelerated vocal - sail matchmaking
Matches are now displayed downwards until twenty% instead of the old 50%. This should assist with songs that only accept extremely misspelled sheets
The congenital in songs are at present displayed at the finish of the lists
The app should no longer crash if the phone has extreme amount of songs (over 1000 albums, etc)
Fixes to app non starting (we couldn't identify all issues yet, we need more data)
Meliorate error / crash reporting

That update is currently being beta tested and should hitting the Windows Phone Store fairly soon. Merely what's coming to SongArc after that update? The side by side update will focus on new features that accept been requested by both beta testers and the full general community. Nosotros can't share more than that, but it should make a great game even amend.

We're really excited to SongArc continue to rapidly improve. Information technology's a game that is unique to Windows Telephone and probably couldn't exist on other platforms. We have the benefit of having a fairly tight knit community of users and developers giving each other feedback and improving the platform as a whole. Fun fact: Our very ain Daniel Rubino is addicted to the game. See the screenshot of the tweet below? You'll see a handful of those on his timeline. We might need to stage an intervention if the game gets any more addicting.

Haven't tried SongArc out yet? It'southward a simple game, only packs a ton of fun. Information technology'southward bachelor on both Windows Phone 7.x and eight, only won't with 256MB devices on Windows Phone 7.x). Catch information technology in the Windows Phone Store for gratis or use the QR code below.

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