Shortly after his registration, the conference coordinator asked prospective attendees if anyone wanted to appear in a televised interview in Boston, which Skaggs accepted.
[2] The two other founding members of Soma Games, Rande Bruhn, and John Bergquist began mentoring and helping Skaggs in 2005 after meeting him at a Christian retreat event called Bootcamp NW.
[8] For the first few years following the creation of the company, the members of Soma Games focused on fleshing out their three-game concepts as well as acquiring publicity and funding.
[14][15][16][17][18][19] On June 17, 2009, Soma revealed plans for the sequel to G, titled F: The Storm Riders, in an interview with the German app review site press HOME.
[21] Eventually it was also revealed that the third mobile game preceding the series' finale of Arc would be titled "E, referring to the main gameplay concept of "Energy".
Gameplay footage of F was released in October 2010 featuring a 3D space environment running on the Unity engine, and the game was given the subtitle "The Storm Riders.
"[38] Wind Up Robots missed its July launched date and eventually was released on December 14, 2011, for the Intel AppUp, iOS and Amazon Kindle Fire app stores.
[39][40] The game received generally positive reviews, with some sources commenting favorably upon its originality and robot customization features but critiquing its tutorial and imprecise touch control movement.
[48] That same year, the company started a Kickstarter which raised nearly $18,000 to develop the game, and announced it would be entitled "Redwall: The Warrior Reborn".
According to the company, they prefer to try to deliver polished content rather than manufacturing its earliest products on a minimal budget, a problem they cited as a point of failure for many startup Christian video game developers.
[4][56] The company founder, Chris Skaggs, insists that he values artistic beauty and a good story in games over impressive new gameplay.
[59] In December of the same year, the developers released an app entitled Santa's Giftship, based on the popular iOS game Zombie Gunship.