Can you tell our readers some information about HeroCraft company? Whose idea it was to found it, when the company was founded and how many employees it has etc.
HeroCraft is a dynamically expanding Russian company which designs, develops and publishes high-class games and other programming products for mobile devices. Our games are developed for J2ME, Brew, Symbian OS, Windows Mobile, Palm OS and TomTom platforms. As for the history of HeroCraft, the company was founded in 2001 and its headquarters are located in Kaliningrad, Russia. HeroCraft currently employs over 50 people in 4 offices across Russia and Ukraine. Ukrainian office deals with PDA & Smartphone games.

HeroCraft has a nice logo, who created it?
Our designer from Kaliningrad, Alexander Monastyrskiy a.k.a. „Monstr“ created the logo.

Alexander, what is your position in the company, do you like your job? :-)
I am the Sales and Marketing Manager for Smartphone and PDA Games. Discovering new markets, new people, reports, updates, releases, promo campaigns – that’s my job and I really enjoy it!

Are HeroCraft games popular in your country and worldwide? How many games has HeroCraft in its portfolio?
Sure, we cooperate with leading content providers and online shops all over the world so our brand and our games are well-known. HeroCraft has released over 45 Java games and 7 games for PDA & Smartphones by now.

How many mobile software development companies exist in your country?
There are over 10 mobile software development companies in Ukraine. Most of them just create various mobile applications for foreign publishers. Only several companies like us develop, publish and promote their products themselves.

I see, many Java games has Czech localization, who translates them?
We cooperate with PartnerTrans.de company. They are true professionals and we are happy to cooperate with them.

How much time does it take to develop mobile game? How many people take part in creating one game?
It’s not that quick and easy as you would imagine. It may take from 3 to 12 months. Usually 6-10 people are involved in the process of game creation. The „full squad“ is: game designer, project manager, musician, programmers, level designer and testers.

In your opinion, what mobile game from HeroCraft is the best and which game is the best-seller?
As for PDA/Smartphone games, currently “the best of the best“ are Robo & Stolen In 60 Seconds. Robo also became bestseller for November. Our legendary collection of 8 arcade games called Arcade Park still makes good sales as well, although it was released more than a year ago. Our best-selling Java games are Black Shark & Stolen In Sixty Seconds.

Can you tell us, what new games HeroCraft company prepares for the next few months?
This winter will be rich in HeroCraft games. Users of PDA & Smartphones will get a chance to try games like Snow Lines (released already!), Revival and CrimsonLand. Postal, Black Shark 3D and Kamikadze 2: Ninja will be prepared for Java gamers. Visitors of GSM4U.cz can take a look at full RoadMap Catalogue of Java games through this link - http://www.herocraft.com/info/HeroCraftRoadmap.pdf.

Thank you for the interview
Thank you too for your interest in our company. We’ll get back to you soon with new high-quality games.